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The Thing is a legendary roadside tourist trap. How the hell is it still in business?

How a spiraling, dystopian birthday joke on Twitter turned into a book deal

Japan is educating children with a giant inflatable butt

Here’s your first look at Lego’s new WALL-E set

Americans can’t put down our cell phones—and it’s actually killing us

The octopus has the weirdest DNA map scientists have ever seen

We can’t stop listening to crappy song covers played on the recorder

Is DC Comics’ new Starfire series getting the character all wrong?

Marvel’s new ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’ is everything you love

Andrea Jones-Rooy

The surprising freedom of standup comedy under Chinese censorship

<p>Gavia Baker-Whitelaw was a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom. Specializing in sci-fi movies and superheroes, she also appears as a film and TV critic on BBC radio. Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested.</p>


Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Man nurses bumblebee back to health and gets a tiny high-five

How this Harry Potter fan’s trans coming-out video inspired Eddie Redmayne

<p>Aja Romano is a geek culture reporter and fandom expert. Their reporting at the Daily Dot covered everything from Harry Potter and anime to Tumblr and Gamergate. Romano joined Vox as a staff reporter in 2016.</p>


Aja Romano

Roger Corman’s 1994 Fantastic Four movie is as bad as you hoped it would be

John Constantine will return to TV with an ‘Arrow’ cameo

How a love for geek fashion transformed a lifelong friendship into a business