
Congratulations on making it through another week—especially now that each week feels about 2 billion years long. 2019 might as well be a myth at this point. Oh, speaking of losing all sense of time, next Sunday is Mother’s Day just FYI. So consider this your official warning siren for any gift-getting that you might have put on the back burner. Wee-woo wee-woo!
This week, the Gizmodo folks cranked out some quality blogs on the precarious future of movie theatres after this pandemic, the mystery behind a mass grave containing nearly two dozen enormous sloth skeletons, and why we turn to the delightfully macabre whenever it feels like the world around us is on fire. We also covered how our relationship with trash may never be the same after this novel coronavirus outbreak, how our medieval ancestors tried to dance the plague away, which Star Trek: Voyager episodes hold top-tier status, and this strange bird hybrid that’s as bizarre as it is horny.
You can find all these stories and more below:

In a Flood of New Demand, Shipt Is Letting Gig Workers Drown
The coronavirus pandemic has put many low-wage workers at increased risk, gig workers especially.…
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When Your Freedom Depends on an App
On the day Layla got out of prison and back to her home in Georgia, she was told she would need to…
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Judge Orders FCC to Hand Over IP Addresses Linked to Fake Net Neutrality Comments
A Manhattan federal judge has ruled the Federal Communications Commission must provide two…
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Mass Grave of Elephant-Sized Sloths Poses Murky Mystery
Death might have taken weeks; it might have been days. But when it struck, it struck ruthlessly.
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Three African Skeletons Found in Mexico Show Horrors of Early Slavery in the New World
Three skeletons belonging to African individuals have been uncovered at a mass grave in Mexico…
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Extremely Weird Bird Hybrid Is Back and Looking to Bone
Last fall, the birdwatching community was shocked by the appearance of a skulking yellow bird.…
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I'm a Political Scientist. This Is Why Climate Activists Need to Keep Turning the Heat Up on Joe...
Back in December, which feels like a century ago, the Sunrise Movement gave Joe Biden an F on their
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Coronavirus Could Change Our Relationship With Trash
The coronavirus caused Lauren Singer to do something she hasn’t done in eight years: she created…
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It Could Take Decades for the Ocean Floor to Recover From Deep Sea Mining
A new study has found that the impacts of deep sea mining are still felt a quarter of a century…
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In Search of Tomorrow's Director Dishes on What Will Be the Ultimate Documentary for 1980s Sci-Fi...
Last year, director David Weiner made a documentary called In Search of Darkness, an epic…
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Star Trek: Voyager's Must-Watch Episodes
So far, our guides to the unmissable episodes of each entry in the Star Trek franchise have dealt…
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10 Movies and Shows That Predicted Way Different 2020 Disasters
We’re living in “a time” right now, one that some movies like Contagion kind of predicted. But…
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Rons Perlman, Ranked
Like many character actors, Ron Perlman (who marked his 70th birthday in April!) has a lengthy…
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When Your Freedom Depends on an App
On the day Layla got out of prison and back to her home in Georgia, she was told she would need to…
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Apple iPhone SE Review: This Is the iPhone to Buy Right Now
Rumors of a cheaper, smaller iPhone swirled for years before Apple actually announced the $400…
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Intel's New Desktop Processors Take a Very Intel Approach to Challenging AMD
Following the announcement of its high-end mobile processors at the beginning of the month, Intel…
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Organize Your Cords, You Godless Monsters
Few things make the eyes bleed more than a messy nest of errant cords. They just sit there, a trap…
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The 2020 Google Pixel Buds Feel and Sound Great, But There's a Problem
The original Pixel Buds were a strange product. They came out a full year after the AirPods, and…
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Movie Theaters Are Screwed
A long-standing debate about movies at home versus in the theater is reaching a tipping point. At…
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The Evercade Simplifies Retro Gaming and I'm Surprised How Much I Love It
If you haven’t spent decades hoarding classic consoles and cartridges (plus an outdated TV) then…
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How Medieval People Tried to Dance Away the Plague
It was a warm June day in 1374 in the medieval town of Aix-Ia-Chapelle, present-day Aachen,…
Read moreThe Scientists Who Won't Give Up on the Warp Drive
For most of us, traveling faster than the cosmic speed limit—the speed of light—is a…
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The Pandemic’s First Socially Distant Ultramarathon Was Destined to End in Heartbreak
It’s likely the last runner to learn Radek Brunner had been disqualified from the the pandemic’s…
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Why Do We Use Dark Humor to Deal With Terrifying Situations?
Life’s hard for the humorless—loved ones die, hurricanes and infections ravage the planet, and all…
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