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The Faker
Sixteen-year-old M.H. was excited for another year on her cheerleading squad in suburban Pennsylvania. But the year was cut short when an anonymous n…
4 years, 2 months ago
There's a r/place for us
After its first successful iteration in 2017, r/place returned on April 1, 2022 for four days of battling fandoms vying for space inside a pixelated …
4 years, 2 months ago
The Herman Cain Award
A deep dive into The Herman Cain Award subreddit, which ironically awards those who die from COVID after publicly expressing anti-vaxx sentiments or …
4 years, 3 months ago
Excrement of the Stars
Thousands of years ago, a massive meteoroid seared through the Earth’s atmosphere and split into fragments over Greenland. Its pieces were later used…
4 years, 3 months ago
Political feuds don't take vacations
Ben and Amory are, sadly, not the type of people who truly "unplug" when they go on vacation, but this week's story is proof that those people do, in…
4 years, 3 months ago
Goblins, Toenails, and Beach Rap
In times like these, you've got to take joy wherever and however you can get it. Amory and Ben swap unexpected sources of joy they've bumped into rec…
4 years, 3 months ago
Ballerina in the Sky
This is the story of a shocking event that sent Endless Thread producer Quincy Walters, and countless others, down a disturbing and fascinating rabbi…
4 years, 4 months ago
Eugene from Ukraine
"How to prepare your house for an active wartime?"
This was the title of a post on r/NoStupidQuestions about a month ago. The Reddit user, a 32-year …
4 years, 4 months ago
Dogs in Elk
"I know how to take meat away from a dog. How do I take a dog away from meat?" This was a real question posed in Salon.com's Table Talk forum in 1999…
4 years, 4 months ago
Space Heist! (Or, How to Steal a Planet)
On December 28, 2004, CalTech astronomer Mike Brown and his colleagues found an unnamed dwarf planet drifting through the far reaches of the solar sy…
4 years, 4 months ago