when animals disagree Epic battle between baby elephant and goose Mark Frauenfelder

Japan Don't Press My Whorl: a hairy superstition in Japan Thersa Matsuura

Culture Norway increased its whaling quota for no good reason Seamus Bellamy

Environment Meat industry runoff has created a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico Andrea James

podcasts Questioning the nature of reality with cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman David McRaney

music Listen to the soldiers' musical soundtrack of the Vietnam War David Pescovitz

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

fiction Launch Boing Boing

television Hannibal: Guilt is a divine beast of burden in "Su-zakana" [Season 2, episode 8 recap] Theresa DeLucci

Science Hobby Lobby, IUDs, and the facts Maggie Koerth

Science A hole in the ground: Storing carbon dioxide thousands of feet below Illinois Maggie Koerth

meat Big factory pig farms are some of America's worst polluters Xeni Jardin