News Meet the "Silent Man" who mysteriously blocks traffic without uttering a word Mark Frauenfelder

crime Man shat in public swimming pool 18 times Rob Beschizza

News How a banned rice cooker cost a Welsh university £264,442 Ellsworth Toohey

politics Meow! Britain imports America's "kids using litterboxes in school" hoax Rob Beschizza

books An Oxford barrister lived as a badger for six weeks, eating worms Ellsworth Toohey

Left-leaning Plaid Cymru crushes Labour Party in Welsh by-election Rob Beschizza

Science New research: Shingles vaccine reduces risk of developing dementia by 20% Jennifer Sandlin

Finger stuck in a bottle, escaped pet alligator, and other inappropriate calls for an ambulance Allan Rose Hill

wales Llawgnychu! It's ok to Cymru to Welsh fairy porn Rob Beschizza

Labour's Keir Starmer is the UK's new Prime Minister Rob Beschizza

interviews Michael Sheen grilled by neurodivergent interviewers Rusty Blazenhoff

monoliths Mysterious massive metal monolith appears on Wales hillside David Pescovitz

Ecce machina, ubi homo Amazon product name is an OpenAI error message Rob Beschizza

oops Road painters misspell school outside of school David Pescovitz

astronomy A nice asteroid, 69 alligators long, passed by the Earth this week Thom Dunn

meteors Texas struck by meteor the size of a thousand-pound corgi Thom Dunn

wales Dobby is dead and does not need your socks Jason Weisberger

18 attacked in squirrel rampage Rob Beschizza

maps Bot posts picks from the Library of Congress's expanded map collection Rob Beschizza

Monsters Meet Guy N. Smith, the guy who gave the world 7 novels worth of crabs Thom Dunn