Thieving squirrel stymied by vaseline-covered pole, plus squirrel-launching compilation.
What do airlines owe you when you’re stranded?
The Cornell professor who gave us the chicken nugget.
Cookie Monster’s famous cookie-dough recipe (plus the original Toll House recipe to compare).
Seals carried tuberculosis across the Atlantic and gave it to humans — the disease was present in the Americas prior to European contact.
Eleven smells that are slowly disappearing.
ICYMI, Monday’s links are here, including creepy superheroes, the worst 20th-century technological screwups. hand-cut paper art, and ridiculous Japanese products.