airport security This Christmas tree is so fucking metal Thom Dunn

corruption Man recreates TSA's $47,400 "head this way" app in 10 minutes Rob Beschizza

crime Tourist fined $1,200 for swiping sand from Italian beach David Pescovitz

Japan Japanese rapper Kan a.k.a. GAMI busted for 0.5 grams of weed Mark Frauenfelder

escalation tactics Miami-Dade cop aggressively hits black woman in the face after she calls him "white" Carla Sinclair

music Nearly 1000 Peel Sessions now available online Gareth Branwyn

music Meeting Little Richard at his old Hyatt haunt David Katznelson

music Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, RIP David Pescovitz

music Listen to Muzak for airplanes (1960s) David Pescovitz

travel Where the planes are parked Rob Beschizza

soundscapes Listen to the eerie sounds of near silence in formerly bustling cities Mark Frauenfelder

breakouts A bunch of live crabs broke out of a box on a luggage carousel and hilarity ensued Mark Frauenfelder

coronavirus People stuck at Japan's Narita airport are sleeping in $70/night cardboard boxes Mark Frauenfelder

Science Sewage could reveal true scope of coronavirus outbreak, scientists say Xeni Jardin

economics The retail TP shortage may be real and due to the shift in where we poop Jason Weisberger

coronavirus Coronavirus: These airlines are suspending flights Xeni Jardin

health Screener at Los Angeles airport tests positive for coronavirus, federal officials say Xeni Jardin

travel My life on the road: Morocco Seamus Bellamy

coronavirus CDC planned to drop off coronavirus cruise passengers at a shopping mall Cheesecake Factory, when they got out of quarantine Xeni Jardin

tabloids Your dollar bills could kill you, and Prince Andrew tries to kill himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan