happy mutants Sparks enlist Cate Blanchett for new music video Rusty Blazenhoff

movies Backrooms makes $10.4m in preview screenings Rob Beschizza

movies Critics like being in the Backrooms Rob Beschizza

cute This air quality monitor is a cute bird that dies when you need to air out your home Gail Sherman

robots Bear-deterring "Monster Wolves"sold out in Japan Gail Sherman

art What happens when an artist draws Pokémon without ever seeing them Popkin

Average bear Yellowstone grizzly introduces two hikers to the "find out" phase of wildlife tourism Jason Weisberger

Science Brain-eating amoeba turns up in five western national parks Ellsworth Toohey

Games This destroyed Nintendo 3DS restoration is supernaturally relaxing Grant St. Clair

NASA NASA will spell your name with satellite photos of the planet Gail Sherman

Science Your brain just made up the color you're looking at Ellsworth Toohey

video The retro toy I can't stop listening to Popkin

Comics In "Punk'n Heads," the pumpkin masks are mandatory, the identity crisis is optional Gareth Branwyn

movies Backrooms trailer clips into existence Rob Beschizza

Science Golden oyster mushroom is invading North American forests Ellsworth Toohey

History Faber Birren painted his bedroom red to see if it would drive him mad, then designed the colors of the nuclear age Ellsworth Toohey

art These pencils were loved down to the very last nub Popkin

newspapers 79-year-old paperboy not retiring yet Rob Beschizza

Technology Developer spills candy on the floor, invents a programming language Ellsworth Toohey