bad falls David Copperfield takes stand in trial for magic trick accident that allegedly left man with serious brain injury Carla Sinclair
History This unlucky fellow was the first person to have been killed by a meteorite in recorded history David Pescovitz
ice cream Oscar Mayer intros a hot dog ice cream sandwich to mock French's mustard ice cream Rusty Blazenhoff
crime FBI: Online theft, fraud, exploitation caused losses of $2.7B globally in 2018, up from $1.4B in 2017 Xeni Jardin
fake news Trump and Bezos exiled, Royals riled, and Ted Bundy’s child, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
mishaps Man in hang glider fails to strap in properly, hangs by his hands for dear life Richard Kaufman
Copyfight Florida's prisons change tech providers, wipe out $11.2m worth of music purchased by prisoners Cory Doctorow
futility closet How a brutal 1883 blizzard turned an unlucky fisherman into "the fingerless navigator" Futility Closet
security Under Armour: hackers stole the data of 150,000,000 Myfitnesspal users because of course they did Cory Doctorow
trumpism Judge slams ICE for targeting migrants based on their political opposition to ICE Cory Doctorow
grody to the max Scientists test hagfish slime-defense techniques by building an artificial shark mouth Clive Thompson
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