movies Watch: Michael Bay style Bat vs. Crocodile warfare with bombs and lasers Xeni Jardin

magnets how do they work How to make homopolar motor with just a few parts Mark Frauenfelder

crime Cops ask hearse thieves: please return the body in the casket, at least Mark Frauenfelder

music Emerson, Lake & Palmer's prog rock epic, "Karn Evil 9," to be made into a film with Daniel Wilson penning the screenplay Gareth Branwyn

animals Newly discovered sharks that walk are the "youngest" shark species on Earth David Pescovitz

happy mutants Leviathan: an eight foot tall, seven foot wide assemblage sculpture "ghost ship" Cory Doctorow

Ewige Blumenkraft Trump appointed the author of "100 Secrets and Habits of the Illuminati for Life Success" to the Commission on Presidential Scholars Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutant The World’s Smallest Post Service to open a magical brick-and-mortar experience in Oakland Rusty Blazenhoff

Business Another Apple engineer accused of stealing autonomous vehicle secrets for China Xeni Jardin

trumpism Molly Crabapple's illustrated report from the immigration detention Gulags of Texas Cory Doctorow

vehicles Delorean hovercraft for sale David Pescovitz

elections 11-year-old hacks replica of Florida's state election website in less than ten minutes Gina Loukareas

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

uk Villagers dig 15 miles of trenches in the name of faster Internet Seamus Bellamy

books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow