North Pole The North Pole is 36 degrees warmer than normal Mark Frauenfelder

russia Russia's airborne dicketry comes close to America's shores Seamus Bellamy

Kids School apologizes after parents complain that "Santa Goes Green" Christmas concert was anti-oil David Pescovitz

santa claus We need to close the North Pole tax loopholes to pay for Universal Elfcare Thom Dunn

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

russia U.S. intercepts Russian bombers and fighter jets off Alaska coast Xeni Jardin

oceans Wealthy adventurer just became the first person to touch the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean David Pescovitz

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

books Rudy Rucker's latest steampunk novel: "Return to the Hollow Earth," a voyage starring Santa Cruz hippies and Edgar Allan Poe Cory Doctorow

fake news Tom Cruise’s healing touch, Nazi Roseanne, and Vanna White’s hooker scandal, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

books Support Rudy Rucker's Kickstarter for his new book "Return to the Hollow Earth" David Pescovitz

NASA Trippy infrared flyover of Jupiter's swirling north pole Clive Thompson

Science 4K tour of the Moon Rob Beschizza

Science Earth's magnetic poles may be getting ready to flip Clive Thompson

priceless reactions Watch: Young boy has a rough day, so sister surprises him with Lady Gaga tickets Carla Sinclair

happy mutants Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Now with Extra Monsters): At Least One Monster Per Paragraph! This Is Our Guarantee! Marc Laidlaw

surveillance Santa Cam knows when you are sleeping AND awake Rusty Blazenhoff

Space NASA playlist of the incredible "sounds of space" David Pescovitz