restaurants Impressive champagne saber fail at Michelin-starred restaurant David Pescovitz

champagne TIL: You can buy bottles of fake bubbly for boat christenings that are designed to break Rusty Blazenhoff

Science The sound of good champagne David Pescovitz

Science Newly-discovered orchid smells like champagne David Pescovitz

spooks The CIA's east-coast and west-coast bureaux had long-running rivalries over Champagne Cory Doctorow

booze A champagne gun for your epic battles of excess David Pescovitz

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cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

booze Divers retrieve hundreds of bottles of booze from a World War I shipwreck David Pescovitz

Funny Watch MSNBC's Chris Hayes unintentionally coin a new euphemism for masturbation David Pescovitz

fake news Royal bombshells, Obama’s boozing daughter, and if Star Trek’s Captain Kirk was a cat, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

fake news Wacko Jacko “Perv” proof, Queen shafts Prince Charles, and Angie “anorexic” (again) in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants A list of all the booze in Casablanca (surprisingly long!) Cory Doctorow

urine trouble Man on flight to Tokyo urinates on another passenger Mark Frauenfelder

social malaise This 70-year-old book about racist mass movements perfectly describes Trumpism Mark Frauenfelder

lies Yet again, Kellyanne Conway violates Federal ethics rules Jason Weisberger

hollywood What's inside the Oscars gift bag, valued at $120K apiece Rusty Blazenhoff

fake news JFK’s killer, Michael Jackson’s ghost, and Meghan Markle’s halibut, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

bad ideas Chambong: for rapidly ingesting beverages Jason Weisberger

usausausa GOP tax plan punishes people who work, rewards passive income Cory Doctorow