art How to light-paint a skeleton Andrea James

caterpillars This caterpillar wears its old molted heads as hats Thom Dunn

Science How to improve your fried rice using physics David Pescovitz

books Ray Bradbury's captivating explanation of his Mr. Electrico character's uncanny origins David Pescovitz

animation Supercut of every stop-motion monster Ray Harryhausen ever animated Thom Dunn

happy mutants Children are becoming snail mail pen pals with Fairyland "elves" in this time of social distancing Rusty Blazenhoff

music The Misfits' Glenn Danzig's "Danzig Sings Elvis," the album and tour David Pescovitz

Weird Neighbor accused of stealing skeleton in window with middle finger raised offensively Xeni Jardin

quiet passengers Gentleman ticketed for driving in carpool lane with plastic skeleton in passenger seat Mark Frauenfelder

Science The secrets within a 2,600-year-old preserved brain of a decapitated man David Pescovitz

star wars Compare the fat joke in the Black Widow trailer with Daisy Ridley saying she was "taking in no nutrients" John Struan

corruption As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn't even been filed Cory Doctorow

halloween Which of these Halloween baguettes is the scariest? Thom Dunn

useful stuff Best jar scraper Mark Frauenfelder

the bad old days Archaeologists recreate face of man who lived 600 years ago in Scottland Mark Frauenfelder

dinosaurs You can now enjoy a whiff of T. Rex's foul breath David Pescovitz

Science Video: sea critters chow down on the carcass of a young whale Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants Kickstarting a deluxe "Dracula" edition in a suitcase full of "primary source materials" from the novel Cory Doctorow

australia Flying T-Rex fossils found in Australia, because of course they were Thom Dunn