napoleon If Napoleon wasn't defeated at Waterloo, then where? Rob Beschizza

art Thomas Jefferson portrait recreated with distant descendant Rob Beschizza

futility closet In 1978, Kim Jong-Il abducted two South Korean cinema stars to make films in North Korea Futility Closet

crime Lessons from testing decades of forgotten rape kits: serial rapists are common, they don't follow a pattern, they're not very bright, and they're often the same men who commit acquaintance rape Cory Doctorow

excellent adventures Napoleon on a waterslide Jason Weisberger

Entertainment Watch: 'LIMBO,' ambient video loop by Bill Domonkos of 20 (real) death masks Xeni Jardin

deaths Read the 1999 Anthony Bourdain essay that started it all Xeni Jardin

History A brief history of how the rich world brutalized and looted Haiti, a country the US owes its very existence to Cory Doctorow

art Nigel Farage gave Steve Bannon a painting in which Bannon is Napoleon Cory Doctorow

robots What a 19th-century rebellion against automation can teach us about the coming war in the job market Mark Frauenfelder

music Compare the short film 'Whiplash' to the feature 'Whiplash', shot by shot Andrea James

Technology In 100 years, we'll remember technology's transformation and Trump will be long forgotten Cory Doctorow

donald trump If you vote for Trump, then screw you Mark Frauenfelder

art Great works of 16th-20th century art painted with ground-up mummies David Pescovitz

History The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes Ryan Holiday

happy mutants How a "lost" Marx Brothers musical found its way back to the stage Cory Doctorow

paris A story of a building in Paris that's stood since the Crusades Carla Sinclair

law Prison islands Rob Beschizza

supercuts Movie phone call supercut Mark Frauenfelder

animals Dogs with a Napoleon complex Xeni Jardin