Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama exists because airlines lose enough luggage to stock a thrift store. The leftovers of every traveler's worst day, sorted and tagged.

Early-1900s 'giant crop' postcards were folk art with a printing press — absurdly oversized potatoes, watermelons the size of barns, families riding strawberries. The mail was funnier then.

Alain Robert, the 60-year-old French Spider-Man, casually rests mid-climb on a sheer cliff face. No rope. No harness. Just hanging out, literally.

Deep in the Alaskan wilderness near Talkeetna leans the 'Dr. Seuss House' — a stacked tower of cabins built one floor at a time, like someone kept forgetting where they stopped building.

Axel Erlandson, a California bean farmer, spent decades training 70 trees into living ladders, spirals, and bird cages. The survivors are still standing at Gilroy Gardens.

In 2018 NYC made idling vehicles a bounty target — 25% of every fine goes to whoever reports the truck. One man who lost his non-smoking brother to lung cancer now runs the program full-time.

Paleontologists re-examined decades-old fossils and found a new species: Tylosaurus rex, a 43-foot ocean predator that ruled the Cretaceous sea the way its land cousin ruled the swamps.

Homelander's body isn't even cold and Amazon already announced a Boys cinematic universe. Die a hero or live long enough to become Marvel.

Smosh Reads Reddit Stories — yes, that Smosh, somehow still going — is comedians reading r/AmITheAsshole and r/Relationships out loud. Perfect dog-walking listen.

19th-century smokers commissioned wooden pipes shaped like hands — some with hinged thumbs, some clutching shoe-shaped bowls, a few engraved with Masonic symbols. Part tool, part talisman.

In the 1970s, people carpeted their bathrooms. Around the toilet, around the tub, sometimes ON the toilet lid. Warm, damp, shag. Whatever vibe they were going for, mildew got there first.

Netflix's live-action Avatar season 2 kept the muddy, color-graded-into-the-floor look fans hated in season 1. There is no color grading in Ba Sing Se.

Meet Edward — a gray bully mix with white socks who hit 12 by sprinting toward every ice cream truck within earshot. Fospice life, optimized.

With Kristi Noem gone, DHS is finally free to tackle the real threats — like comedian Ben Palmer, who ran a fake ICE hotline and now has a federal Be On The Lookout notice for his trouble.

Baby aardvarks are hairless little snout-creatures that look genuinely alien — until you remember they're real, eat ants, and grow up to be 100 pounds of digging machine.

An albino softshell turtle. Pale leathery shell, snorkel-shaped nose, the whole thing reads as rare-spawn Pokémon.

The Trump phone barely exists in the wild — but its hosted data does, and the breach probably affects more than just the people dumb enough to sign up. Trump Mobile keeps your stuff on someone else's servers.

Sea lions are the adorable dogs of the ocean. Lacking proper toys, they chomp pufferfish until the fish inflate into squeaky balls. The fish, predictably, do not enjoy this game.

On the night his Late Show finale aired, Stephen Colbert spent an hour at 1:35 AM guest-hosting a Monroe, Michigan public access show. Buscemi got a FaceTime, Eminem got mentioned. The bit is the work.

The 'premium' air leak in the 'very best' Russian section of the ISS is back. NASA patched it. It un-patched itself. Russian engineering, on display in low Earth orbit.

Rural America keeps being promised an AI boom. What it gets is a building full of GPUs, a giant cooling system, and about three dozen permanent jobs.

Ruben Bolling drags the Shadow Docket out of the shadows in this week's Tom the Dancing Bug.

The price of one rideable transforming mecha is $650,000. The price of feeding a school full of kids for a year is also $650,000. Choose wisely.

China spent years posturing as neutral on Ukraine. Turns out the PLA was secretly training Russian troops the whole time — and some of those soldiers are now in the war.

JD Vance is railing against the "crazy leadership in Washington." JD Vance is the vice president of Washington.

Among the Pompeii fugitives caught by the ash: a Roman doctor, still holding his bag. House calls had a different risk profile back then.

Japan's bear-deterrent of choice — robotic howling wolves with glowing eyes — is now out of stock. The bears have presumably moved on to ones that aren't.

2026 is the year of the cruise ship outbreak. Norwegian Dawn just added fruit flies, mold, and busted fridges to a list that already included norovirus on the Caribbean Princess.

The gaming industry has decided its prices were too low. Again. This is its newest opinion roughly once a quarter.

Dave Baker's Halloween Boy crashes pulp adventure, underground comix, and postmodern ennui into one weird, funny, gorgeous volume.

A machine that emits hollow politeness on a schedule. Cuts out the middleman.

Badger Badger Badger is now formally part of the UK's national audiovisual heritage. The flash animation made it. We did not.

Tasmania, 1960. Twenty feet of unidentified hairy blob washes up on the beach. Locals don't have a word for it, so someone invents one: globster.

Colonialism, but make it weirdly condescending: Trump sent an envoy to flirt with annexing Greenland. Greenlanders responded with a finger.

Tesla's "wade mode" became "sink mode" for one Texas driver, who is reportedly facing "numerous water safety violations" — a spectacular phrase to apply to a pickup truck.

Granta named "The Serpent in the Grove" a prize finalist. Pangram, an AI detector with a 99% claimed accuracy, lit it up 100% red. The discourse writes itself.

The Bloop: a 1997 deep-sea recording so loud it outdid every animal on record. NOAA's working theory is iceberg cracking. The internet's working theory is, of course, Cthulhu.

Most AI assistants log every word to someone else's server. Outcry, from Occupy co-founder Micah Bornfree, runs the whole model on your iPhone. Useful if your conversations are the kind that get subpoenaed.

Skyrim now runs inside Fallout 4's Pip-Boy. The Bethesda cinematic universe is finally complete.

Comedian Aaron Westberry's act is bringing props onstage and then ignoring them for ten minutes. Avant-garde, irritating, brilliant, all three.

Xbox players get the Darksiders remaster free. PlayStation players pay $10 for the same game. Hard to explain that one without using the word "hostage."

TASCHEN compiled a century of circus-clown photos. Almost none of them look like they're trying to make you laugh.

Sculptural, colorful, and very into sex — William Accorsi's wooden puzzles are a corner of '60s folk art the museum gift shop won't sell you.

Victorian hair jewelry — bracelets and rings braided from a dead relative's hair — was the period's ordinary way of carrying grief around with you.

Plex's lifetime pass is jumping from $250 to $750 in July. That's a tripling for a product called "lifetime" — apparently the lifetime in question is theirs, not yours.

Sci-Hub and Libgen are the digital heirs of Soviet samizdat — scientists copying banned journals by hand, passing them in coat linings. Same moral framework, faster servers.

Moss and Moss II, two of the best games on VR, are getting non-VR releases this summer. You won't need a headset to guide Quill through her storybook quest.

These 1911 photos from zoologist Francis Sumner show flounders matching wild background patterns — checkerboards, stripes, dots — like living design studies.

A Swiss cinema installed screens in its bathrooms so nobody has to choose between holding it and missing the movie.

Two US Navy EA-18G Growlers collided mid-air during the Gunfighter Skies show in Idaho. All four crew ejected safely.