clowns This 'Clowna Sutra' shirt shows copulating clowns (and non-copulating balloon dogs) Rusty Blazenhoff

flatulence Scientists build a database of animal farts Clive Thompson

offworld This adventure game about a strange clown is absolutely brilliant Leigh Alexander

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

The surprising history of hippy crack Linda Rodriguez

DRONES How Dan Shapiro created the most-backed game in Kickstarter history Mark Frauenfelder

Science A hole in the ground: Storing carbon dioxide thousands of feet below Illinois Maggie Koerth

meat Big factory pig farms are some of America's worst polluters Xeni Jardin