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ducks Award-winning duck eats yeast, explodes, and blinds a man Thom Dunn

post-punk Who needs super powers when you have Kid Congo Powers? Gareth Branwyn

dogs An Osaka airport is opening up a new lounge – for passengers of the four-legged variety Carla Sinclair

restaurants Behind the velvet rope hierarchies of NYC restaurant reservations David Pescovitz

cocaine PSA: The Air Force isn't partial to cocaine Seamus Bellamy

cars For a brief moment I forgot this amazing 1975 Pontiac Firebird is a 1975 Pontiac Firebird Jason Weisberger

politics Trump administration ends program to monitor animal diseases that could spread to humans (like Ebola) Xeni Jardin

nevermore Fast food gives crows higher cholesterol, too Clive Thompson

Science A deep dive into how parasites hijack our behavior and how we evolved to resist them Cory Doctorow

Science Sleeping fish may help us understand why we snooze David Pescovitz

tabloid journalism Did the ‘National Enquirer’ finally get one right with its sensational exposé of Bezos’s affair? Peter Sheridan

News Maria Butina plea hearing set for Thursday, her spy boss Torshin missing, Putin unhappy Xeni Jardin

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

parody The Blair Witch Project x Scooby-Doo (1999) Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle