Get ready to meet the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. In the Middle Ages, artists depicted accounts of gourds that enshrouded “a little beast like unto a young lamb.” Need I say more?

Super-puff planets are rare, and astronomers have found two “sibling” planets caught in a gravitational relationship with each other. Can’t wait to read (or watch) a sci-fi story where cotton candy planets make a cameo!

Why has St. Sebastian, a Roman soldier who was killed for his Christian beliefs, been a hero for gay men over the centuries? This article breaks it down.

Someone made the time to create a website that converts ‘Mad Men’ sums into today's money. Sometimes the internet is good.

I interviewed Kate O’Flynn (aka Patricia) for Reactor. We talking specifically about “The Boogeyman” episode; give it a read!

I also did several interviews for the AMC+ show ‘The Terror: Devil in Silver’; this one is with the showrunners about the opening scene, which you can also watch at the end of the post.

Summer time means summer book lists! The excellent newsletter Not-Ship analyzed a slew of summer reading lists, shared trends and findings, and at the end lets readers sort by genre to find a book or three that they’d love to pick up on a lazy, hot day.

Who is Elias Thorne? 404 Media explores how the infestation of LLM-generated material create characters with the same name — like Elias Thorne— no matter whether that prompt came from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

Tubes to tell time! Someone created a system of tiny pneumatic tubes that suck in various segments to depict different numbers, digital style. The system, in a word, is delightful.