new york city Sculptures of wolves mauling tourist appear in New York City parks Rusty Blazenhoff

fake news There is no chemical that will turn pool water a different color if you pee in it David Pescovitz

science fiction Walt Disney's Frozen Head: a science fiction movie secretly shot at Walt Disney World Cory Doctorow

urban legends "Write the best possible final exam question for this course, then answer it." Mark Frauenfelder

Science Is the Five Second Rule real? David Pescovitz

futility closet In the 1870s, enormous swarms of grasshoppers beset pioneers on the American plains Futility Closet

Science Study finds that false news spreads faster than truth online, thanks to humans (not bots) Cory Doctorow

History My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing Rob Beschizza

books An excerpt from Souls, Light and Wings, a debut novel by Simon A.G. Spencer Simon A.G. Spencer

picks Halloween Gift Guide Rob Beschizza

Games Documentary about Polybius, the urban-legend arcade game Rob Beschizza

religion What a Google News Alert for "Satanic" can teach you David Pescovitz

History King Arthur's grave was a hoax invented by cash-strapped 12th C monks Cory Doctorow

music Hear rock music's secret satanic messages in this 1981 radio show David Pescovitz

halloween Wild cop conspiracy rumor Mark Frauenfelder

drinks Kids getting wasted on hand sanitizer (still) Rob Beschizza