According to Telemundo, three brothers, ages 8, 10, and 12, from the Andean town of Chayanta in Bolivia went out to graze goats when they stumbled upon a black widow… Read the rest of the article: Bolivian brothers let a black widow bite them all in hopes of getting superpowers

I tried to stop being a t-shirt guy, and for most of my 20s, it even worked. But for the last few years, I've been in the habit of buying… Read the rest of the article: Proceeds from this "White Claws Not White Pride" shirt/mask go to Black Lives Matter

Technology writer Faine Greenwood has a great piece in Slate about the expansion of police drone surveillance fleets. While there are still many, many reasons to worry about abuses of drone technology… Read the rest of the article: What you need to know about police drone surveillance at protests against police brutality

Hamilton Act 1 but it's MuppetsWatch this video on YouTube My favorite performances are probably Priscilla as Angelica and Animal as King George. No disrespect to Gonzo Aaron Burr, but… Read the rest of the article: The Muppets perform the entire first act of HAMILTON

I've known Literary Agent/author Eric Smith as an editor and friend for about a decade now; I even wrote a review of his most recent novel, the delightful Don't Read… Read the rest of the article: An author wrote a beautiful tribute to his late dog disguised as writing advice

Trump has been railing against the idea of mail-in voting for a while now, even as he claims that it's fine sometimes, like when he does it, and even though… Read the rest of the article: Trump's campaign against mail-in voting is backfiring by discouraging Republican absentee voters

As reported on Monday, July 6 (via NPR): Foreign students attending U.S. colleges that will operate entirely online this fall semester cannot remain in the country to do so, according… Read the rest of the article: Harvard and MIT are suing over the Trump administration's student immigration ruling

Sea Monkeys — those little frozen brine shrimp that came with an elaborate aquatic playground that was never actually as cool as the marketing made it look — were invented… Read the rest of the article: The legal battle over those novelty Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Specs involves white supremacy and a 60s bondage film star

I'm one of those people who's damn near allergic to everything — or at least, according to my doctor, to all forms of dust and tree pollen, which might as… Read the rest of the article: Your allergies are bad because of tree sexism

Charlie Kaufman is the acclaimed screenwriter behind surrealist movies like Being John Malkovich; Adaptation; Synecdoche, New York; and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. My favorite bizarrely wonderful story about him… Read the rest of the article: An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn

This 2018 study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America takes a comprehensive look at the impacts of militarized police, and shows… Read the rest of the article: Police militarization is objectively bad for police and for society, according to science

Not Your Average Bird BrainWatch this video on YouTube Researchers at Harvard recently conducted an odd experiment in visual memory. They selected 21 Harvard undergrads and 21 6- to 8-year-old… Read the rest of the article: Harvard study shows that Harvard kids are dumber than a grey parrot

Skä•noñh – ContactWatch this video on YouTube The most recent episode of the Intercept's Intercepted podcast touches on a lot of topics relating to white supremacy and US history. But the… Read the rest of the article: That time George Washington ordered "total destruction and devastation" of the Haudenosaunee

Breonna Taylor was a 26-year-old EMT who was killed by 3 plainclothes police officers who wrongly delivered a no-knock warrant (which is already constitutionally questionable) at her home in the… Read the rest of the article: New court documents allegedly connect Breonna Taylor's murder to a massive real estate conspiracy

As long as statues of historical figures (and what to do with them) is at the forefront of our cultural conversation, there's this from Smithsonian Magazine: The busts are all… Read the rest of the article: There are 43 giant stone Presidential heads crumbling in a field in Virginia

A statue of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass in Rochester's Maplewood Park was vandalized on the anniversary of the "What to a slave is the Fourth of July?" speech that he… Read the rest of the article: The last time a Frederick Douglass statue was vandalized in Rochester, it was because of drunk college kids

Putt Putt to the Pizza HutWatch this video on YouTube At this point, Pizza Hut had just begun franchising out from their original Wichita, Kansas location. But this commercial was… Read the rest of the article: Watch the very first Pizza Hut commercial from 1965

The Mad HatterpillarWatch this video on YouTube From New Scientist: As the caterpillar of the moth Uraba lugens grows, it sheds its exoskeleton – but rather than getting rid of the previous head… Read the rest of the article: This caterpillar wears its old molted heads as hats

Americanism has a weird obsession with vague notions of "law and order." At its core, there's nothing unique about a society whose existence depends on a collective respect for its… Read the rest of the article: The US Department of Justice was originally created to tackle white supremacy

The Washington Post reports: The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it will loan $700 million to a trucking firm that ships military equipment, in exchange for having U.S. taxpayers acquire… Read the rest of the article: Trump administration gave a $700M bailout to a $70M truck company after it allegedly defrauded the Pentagon