animals Another horse dies at Santa Anita, 2-year-old colt is 27th fatality this season Xeni Jardin

Funny Who won the horse race? Bofa. Bofa Deez Nutz. David Pescovitz

music Ten great, groundbreaking avant garde records Gareth Branwyn

tabloids LBJ killed JFK, the Queen’s secret lover & Julia Roberts’ divorce, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

marketing Pack of T-Rex race down the track instead of horses Rusty Blazenhoff

Delightful Creatures Watch: horses drag 2000-pound sleds in Japaneses competition Mark Frauenfelder

futility closet The first American sports spectacle was an 1823 horse race between North and South Futility Closet

bernie sanders They said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's message wouldn't play in the midwest, now she and Bernie are headed to Kansas Cory Doctorow

Kids Delightful creatures frolicking in the waves Andrea James

beating the system Profile of a man who created a horse-racing algorithm and made close to a billion dollars Mark Frauenfelder

History "Why I Hate My Uncle," by William Hitler (Look magazine, 1939) Mark Frauenfelder

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

video Vintage footage of drag racing legend Shirley Muldowney Andrea James

happy mutants Citizen Maths: free, open mathematical literacy for everyone John Rees and Seb Schmoller

How the creator of NYPD Blue gambled aways his $100 million fortune Mark Frauenfelder

media Obama accused of "bungling and treachery," and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

floss Citizen Maths: free/open adult math education for practical real-world numeracy Seb Schmoller

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

Searching for Krampus Al Ridenour