happy mutants Metropolitan Museum of Art makes more than 375,000 public domain images available as CC0 Cory Doctorow

History How a raunchy love charm became an innocent nursery rhyme Ellsworth Toohey

History The Army told Hershey to make a chocolate bar that tasted bad Ellsworth Toohey

tech The E Ink device that keeps you on schedule without the rabbit hole Séamus Bellamy

art The strange economics of setting your own cash on fire Ellsworth Toohey

History A stolen slice of watermelon sparked a deadly 1856 riot in Panama Ellsworth Toohey

Japan What happened to the 2.5 mile high building designed to be taller than Mount Fuji? Ellsworth Toohey

art Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens this week in London Rob Beschizza

fbi A couple and their pickup truck vanished in 2005, never found Ellsworth Toohey

Everybody hating on Florida principal over Fetty Wap yearbook quote Rob Beschizza

art Famous bull fresco's bollocks restored Rob Beschizza

Science This weekend's blue moon is also a micromoon (but won't be blue and isn't smaller) Rob Beschizza

politics Judge orders Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center Rob Beschizza

politics An Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at George W. Bush, kicking off a copycat era Ellsworth Toohey

History Two green-skinned children appeared in a 12th-century English village Ellsworth Toohey

Entertainment Freedomland USA: was this 1960s theme park just a five-year land scam? Ruben Bolling

cute Don't worry, good things happened this month too Grant St. Clair

trump Where is the Board of Peace's aid cash for Gaza? Séamus Bellamy