aurora: a primer for the Parker Solar Probe’s mission to touch the Sun, seeking answers regarding the solar winds and corona posed decades ago
banana for scale: an exponential (previously) romp through the Cosmos that will help one to appreciate perspective
of podcasts and puppets: an interview with the handler for MST3K’s Crow T Robot speaks on how novelty acts inform culture

dugout: via Slashdot, a visit to the remote Australian opal mining town where people live underground
maccoin bubble: enthusiasts in China are trading commemorative tokens (whose face-value is a hamburger) issued for the fast food franchise’s fiftieth birthday at greatly inflated prices
bride of frankenstein: actually she’s Trump’s monster
strandbeest evolution: Dutch artist Theo Jansen engineers giant kinetic Jabberwockies that travel the beach powered only by the winds