bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder
tabloids World War III starts (yet again) and RFJ Jr is not RFK, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
music Let's Get what now? Original version of badly-aged Black Eyed Peas song a viral hit despite "censorship" Rusty Blazenhoff
afrofuturism Mark Dery on the "everything, all at once" art and life of Jean-Michel Basquiat Gareth Branwyn
tabloids Prince Andrew's "sex tape" and Queen Camilla's "revenge" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
poetry The incredibly complicated question of how to translate inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Thom Dunn
music Watch Blondie's Debbie Harry on a pogo stick explaining the punk Pogo dance (1978) David Pescovitz
Business Whistleblowers out Falwell's Liberty University as a grifty, multibillion-dollar personality cult Cory Doctorow
fake news Glenn Miller's death plane, Robert Durst's cannibal appetites, and exploding heads in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan