Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Somewhere in Eureka, California, a bookstore owner opened a package last week and found a first-edition Edward Gorey book tucked in with a hundred dollars in cash and a full written confession from a man she’d never met. The book went missing back in the early 1980s. Nobody reported it. Nobody chased it. It just …
Six flat cats showed up in a vacant lot in Cape Coral, Florida, and I have not been able to stop thinking about them since. They’re cutouts. Two-dimensional cat effigies staked into the dirt of an empty lot on Southwest 25th Place, facing outward like the world’s least convincing neighborhood watch. A second batch turned …
Kyle Steffen had a problem. Kids in his Wyoming, Minnesota neighborhood kept cutting across his lawn on their bikes on the way to Goodview Park, and years of yelling out the window hadn’t changed a thing, so he tried something new. A trap. Specifically: a plastic sheet studded with roughly 40 three-inch screws, points up, …
On August 12th, a good chunk of the internet got convinced Earth’s gravity was going to switch off for exactly seven seconds, like someone was about to unplug the planet and plug it back in. The theory even had a name, “Project Anchor,” and a suspiciously specific budget line of $89 billion, sourced from a …
Scientists in Colorado are broke, so they started an OnlyFans account for marmots. That’s not a joke, and it’s not a metaphor. A research program at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory has been tracking yellow-bellied marmots since 1962, one of the longest-running wildlife studies in the country. Then federal grants got pulled last year and …