television Celebrate Halloween 1976 style with Paul Lynde and KISS Andrea James

I kinda know I'm a little bit cute Meet new White House staffer Paula White, Trump's "prosperity gospel" advisor Mark Frauenfelder

History The ENIAC Programmers: how women invented modern programming and were then written out of the history books Cory Doctorow

fake news Alien attack imminent, Buckingham Palace is a drug den, and the Queen is a criminal mastermind, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan

art Glitch video of Paris street Rob Beschizza

obituary R.I.P. Koko, the amazing gorilla who used sign language to communicate with humans Rusty Blazenhoff

fake news Hillary Clinton’s funeral plans, and how to be like Donald Trump, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Trump’s space death ray, Hillary Clinton’s liberation, and alien mummies, in this week’s tabs Peter Sheridan

fake news Earth faces comet catastrophe, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

fake news Forget “alternative facts.” This week’s tabloids shoot for an entire alternate universe Peter Sheridan

halloween The Candy Hierarchy for 2016: Halloween's best and worst treats David Ng and Ben Cohen

picks Video released of Tulsa police fatally shooting unarmed black man Terence Crutcher Xeni Jardin

memorization Fun video teaches you how to memorize the first 100 digits of Pi Mark Frauenfelder

Comics 10 Comic-Con announcements that are actually about comics Laura Hudson

Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo Wink

fiction Season's Greetings from the McKendricks Caitlin Gill

Environment The revenge of the lawn Mark Dery