facial recognition A toilet with facial recognition for your butthole Thom Dunn

shit Oorah! US Marine recruits sidelined by E. Coli Seamus Bellamy

trees Your allergies are bad because of tree sexism Thom Dunn

economics The retail TP shortage may be real and due to the shift in where we poop Jason Weisberger

climate Whales worth about $1 trillion in carbon sequestration, analysis finds Clive Thompson

your ig nobel is in the mail Knives made of human feces don't actually work, experiment finds Clive Thompson

Gadgets Facebook slashes price of its creepy Portal home surveillance telescreen Rob Beschizza

lego Researchers got 6 people to eat Lego heads and then search for the toys in their poop Carla Sinclair

calendar A look at some quirky, and downright strange, 2019 calendars Rusty Blazenhoff

ireland Dublin's permanent 'Dublinia' exhibit employs extreme realism Jason Weisberger

bears A guerilla campaign to save grizzly bears in Wyoming is underway Seamus Bellamy

canada Feral Peacocks terrorize Canadian neighborhood Seamus Bellamy

law Jailed gentleman holds in possible evidence-bearing poop for 40 days Andrea James

trumpism EPA employees who spoke out about Trump are having their emails ransacked, and the EPA's new "monitoring" firm is linked to a GOP oppo research firm Cory Doctorow

exercise "Mad Pooper" terrorizes Colorado Springs family Jason Weisberger

fyre festival Leaked Fyre Festival documents reveal "logistical nightmare" Mark Frauenfelder

Engineering Omnidirectonal conveyor belt is smarter than I am Rob Beschizza

happy mutants As usual, Vi Hart's annual Pi Day video is the best way to ring in 3/14 Cory Doctorow

politics The peculiar struggle to make parts of India "Open Defecation Free" Cory Doctorow

guns Florida man shot cat that "looked at him like he owned the place" Rob Beschizza