March 2026 Roundup

1. From Tom Scott’s Newsletter: Topsy-Turvy World.

2. World’s first pollinating frog

3. Innovations from golf video games.

4. Am I good at Cinematrix? No. Do I play it every day anyway? You betcha.

5. This review of the Mac neo (worth your time)

6. Good climate news!

7. Fred Hicks (Evil Hat) on layout (2018)

8. In dino news, crocodile dinosaur turned into ostrich dino (by posture) as it aged! Research done by Seattle’s own Elliott Armour Smith, who has a name that rules.

9. Double dino day! We’ve got a new South Korean dino. Meet Dooly!

10. Children find mysterious Gaulish sitting skeletons.

11. For thousands of years, we didn’t know how eels reproduce. Spontaneous spawning was a popular theory. Turns out (as we learned in 2022), they grow genitals when near their secret spawning grounds. There’s also some pokemon-style evolution along the way.

12. Related, locusts are grasshoppers that have a swarming phase when their populations get too high.

13. Sam Dunnewold of Dice Exploder: 12 questions to ask when making your game.

14. Come for the baller opening paragraph, stay for a great article about sharks.

15. On conformity and dissent