poetry The oldest written record of "fuck" has been discovered — and it comes from a plague quarantine Thom Dunn
art Phone call leads police to $800,000 in stolen art by an artist who believed Jesus was a space alien Xeni Jardin
Games Thousands sign up to play unauthorized hide-and-seek game at Ikea, police called in David Pescovitz
Science Artificial tongue's nanoscale "tastebuds" can sort real whisky from counterfeits more than 99% of the time Cory Doctorow
psychology Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow
canada Mystery saint giving out $100 bills and encouraging notes in eastern Canadian town Seamus Bellamy
animals Python smuggles itself out of Australia by hiding in a woman's shoe on an airplane David Pescovitz
uk UN poverty envoy calls UK poverty a "political choice" that inflicted "great misery" Cory Doctorow
dictionary 'Single-use' edges out 'VAR,' 'floss,' 'gammon,' and 'plogging' as this dictionary's word of the year Rusty Blazenhoff
piketty After a manager at a Dollar General asked about the unionization of a nearby store, the company fired her Cory Doctorow
elections Mass incarceration and disenfranchisement of brown people was the key to GOP control in Alabama, but thanks to criminal justice reform, black people can vote against child-molester Roy Moore Cory Doctorow
uk Student loans are really "a list of people liable to additional taxation after graduation" Cory Doctorow
