There have been a spate of articles recently about airline passengers trying to bring a variety of “support” animals on board, everything from lizards to peacocks to hamsters. Well, some airlines have had enough of that nonsense. American Airlines, for one, has just banned animals including goats, hedgehogs, anything with tusks, insects, anything with horns or hooves, and more. Well, almost anything with hooves––miniature horses are OK, if they’ve been properly trained. So fly on, Lil Sebastian.

As we have come to expect from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the visual effects in Black Panther were incredible. The Wired piece examines the incredibly hard work that went into making those special effects, in some cases demonstrating adjustment-by-adjustment explanation of the visual effects. What you might be most surprised to learn is that much of the suit had to be changed with visual effects because the practical effects kept getting damaged in shooting. 

What species is the deadliest, in terms of the number of living creatures it directly kills? If you answered humanity, we don’t blame you, but you’re wrong. Bacteriophage are the most murderous creatures on the planet. In terms of mass deaths, they far outstrip humanity. They also outnumber all other species on earth combined. They’re all over your right now, in fact. But don’t worry, they’re harmless to humans and only hunt bacteria. That makes them perfect candidates for murdering superbugs. 

Things are not going well at all in Venezuela lately, a fact easy to miss thanks to the chaos in our own government. But things there are much worse in Venezuela, and John Oliver devoted one of his longer segments to explaining what the problem is, and much of it has to do with the current president, Nicolás Maduro, who is currently doing his best to run the country into the ground. While his people starve, he chomps down on delicious foods and rigs the government. 

Ann Thompson, who goes by the name of Zoe, worked as a psychic in New York. You might assume that most psychics are perpetrating some kind of fraud. While it’s not our business to judge the veracity of psychic readings in general, in this case we feel confident in saying that “Zoe” is a real piece of work. She took one victim, heartbroken after a breakup, for at least $740,000. She defrauded another victim for over seventy thousand bucks. 

If you’ve crammed yourself into a “Basic Economy” seat in the past year or so, after paying twenty-five bucks for your checked bag and your carry-on bag, then you know that flying is no longer very comfortable at all. In fact, flying is downright uncomfortable to the point of being torturous. Whose fault is that? We like to blame their airlines, but really it is our own fault––at least in part. That’s because airlines have figured out that the only thing we care about when we buy a plane ticket is price. Not safety, not comfort, nothing but price. So we’ve trained airlines to give us cheap tickets, whatever the cost. 

Kelly M. Cochran, a thirty-four-year-old Indiana woman, appears to be a real life Hannibal Lecter, the famous fictional cannibal who killed people and served his victim at a dinner party. She allegedly killed up to ten people, and––wait for it––allegedly served parts of one of her victims at a BBQ. A documentary will appear on Investigation Discovery (ID) about Ms. Cochran, in which her family describes the other murders they believe she has committed. 

When you think of colonial America, you might think of the Starving Time or of the uptight Puritans. But the colonists weren’t all fasting and prayer, they had some fun. This video teaches you the origins of colonial candy and walks you through how to make pastilles, or sugar candy. It’s so simple you can easily make it at home, even if you have almost no candy-making experience. You’ll also learn a little something about life in colonial America.

Dark patterns are ways that websites trick you into doing things that might harm you but definitely benefits the company. In this video, Nerdwriter walks you through closing your Amazon account, which is a pretty excellent example of what’s called a “roach motel” design. In a word, it’s darn near impossible to close your Amazon account if you don’t know exactly what to do, and even then you can’t do it––you have to talk to a customer service agent who will close your account for you.

For humans, some days go by quickly and some days go by slowly. Professional athletes like baseball players or tennis players report that incoming balls appear to slow down right before they hit them. Scientists have figured out a test to see the general speed at which we process the world, which in turn tells us how time passes for people and for animals. Basically you can show animals lights flickering at different speeds, and that reveals how quickly they process the world. 

If you have noticed a major uptick in the number of robocalls you have been getting, you’re not alone. Spam calls are absolutely on the rise, and there is actually one guy you can blame for a whopping 100,000,000 robocalls in a three-month window: Florida Man. That’s right, Florida Man has taken a break from eating faces off and throwing alligators through drive thru windows to get into the robocalling game. His real name is Adrian Abramovich, and he just set a dubious record for the highest fine in FCC history. 

In Deadpool, the main character made a little crack about David Beckham’s voice being high pitched. In this video, Deadpool shows up at David Beckham’s door to apologize. At first, Beckham is reluctant to accept Deadpool’s apology, but after a few tries (including one with a mariachi band), Beckham relents. But then the video takes a bit of a twist. Beckham wasn’t mad about the crack about his voice. Instead, he’s mad about all the movies Ryan Reynolds has ever been in!