Al Green performed a version with Booker T and the MGs. But yep, Sam Cooke wrote it.

Is he trying to tell us Change Is Gonna Come?

Oh man I had forgotten this one. It definitely fits the bill. Just so much fun to look at.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

It was an experiment with too many mice, too well cared for. The mice became withdrawn and… “Though physically able to reproduce, the mice had lost the social skills required to mate.”

Your link is about the Spanish Flu, which was the 1918-1920 epidemic. Covid is a different disease altogether.

I have bad news about the contents of Grape Nuts.

Back to the Future 2 nailed it.

AKA Volumes are unintuitive. Always get your martinis filled to the brim. https://youtu.be/Mkn3PzdaByY

AI slop image, for this gag?

Assuming they went to college.

I’d like to imagine they took the short trivia fact and applied the inverse of the compression algorithm to bloat it into something that satisfied the editor.

Blender was also used to create Flow, the Best Animated Feature at the Academy awards and the Golden Globe awards.

I mean, it also looks blurry because there are like 15 pixels in that image.

The NY Post is an absolute shitshow of a rag, and its regular readers reflect that.

This is basically the Laundry Files books by Charles Stross.

Where are they going to find someone older than a member of Congress?

As absolutely stupid as this is, it’s no different than changing the maps to show Denali rather than Mount McKinley. I don’t think you’re missing anything.

For further entertainment at the end of the world, see “More” by Mark Osborne.

https://youtu.be/cCeeTfsm8bk

For further reading, see Galaxias by Stephen Baxter.

Hey WOPR, how about a nice game of chess?