pokemon Pokemon hybrid generator Rob Beschizza

Technology As gas tax revenues drop, states like Utah want EVs to pay for road upkeep Xeni Jardin

zoology Paris zoo opens a new exhibit with an immortal mutant slime mold called "The Blob" Thom Dunn

delightful chimeras Chinese scientists are making human-monkey hybrid embryos Mark Frauenfelder

puzzles This is what 'going viral' looks like Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Hockey Noir: The Opera Cecil Castellucci

art Phantasmagoric human-animal hybrids on exhibition David Pescovitz

Science Evolutionary psychologists are very butthurt about the new Scientific American Andrea James

indy video Trailer for Indiegogo funded series about war with human-pig hybrids Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants It’s about Time: Reading Steampunk’s Rise and Roots Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall

travel Atlas Obscura – The intriguing website of life oddities moves to illustrated book form Sara Lorimer

health Safe Patient Project: searchable spreadsheet tells Californians whether their doc is on probation, and why Cory Doctorow

politics Comparing unusually popular cars in red and blue districts Mark Frauenfelder

Food In “Food Warriors,” NYC subway grub sleuths find A+ ethnic eats in Richmond Hill, Queens Xeni Jardin

Weird Crocodile-buffalo hybrid photographed in Thailand! (And Egyptian demon seen in Greece!) David Pescovitz

offworld Read Only Memories breathes life into queer characters in Neo San Francisco Katherine Cross

comic-con Dispatch from Planet Comic-Con Craig Shapiro

Potbox: a monthly subscription box for weed Mark Frauenfelder

Games Six Japanese Dating Sims to Fall In Love With AM Cosmos