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The USPS is honoring longtime Jeopardy host Alex Trebek with a stamp that cleverly mimics a blue Jeopardy answer — and the whole sheet of stamps looks like the game board.

Asked how he feels returning to an Alabama ballpark where he played in the 60s, Reggie Jackson answered with brutal truth. “Coming back here is not easy. The racism when I played here, the difficulty of going through different places where we traveled.”

Hockley Clarke on his relationship with a blackbird who lived in his garden. “There was perfect trust between us, a source of joy to me, and it must have been a comfort to him. Perhaps birds understand more than we think.”

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates comes out this fall and sounds fascinating. “Cultural issues are very, very powerful, actually. Books and movies and TV shows and monuments and statues and art, all that stuff actually really does matter.”

Walmart is switching to electronic price tags that “allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds”. No one wants this!! No one wants surge pricing on ice cream and price increases on items already in your cart.

Roxane Gay signs off from her Work Friend column. “I want everyone to make a living wage and have excellent health care and the means to retire at a reasonable age. I want all of us to want this very simple thing for one another.”

How do we know how many people died of Covid-19? “After four years and dozens of studies, we know everything we’re going to know about the death toll of the Covid pandemic.”

50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1974. Gas shortages, Hank Aaron, streakers, Skylab, Vietnam, Nixon’s resignation, desegregating schools, gay pride, the Troubles, and the Rumble in the Jungle.

A photo of the models for Grant Wood’s American Gothic (his sister and his dentist) standing next to the iconic painting.

Eighty of the most iconic piano intros, played chronologically back-to-back, from Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer to Nina Simone’s My Baby Just Cares For Me to Let It Be by The Beatles to Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey.

A photographer entered a real photo of a flamingo in an AI image contest and was disqualified after winning the People’s Vote Award. “I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine.”

A Few Lessons from Roger Federer’s Dartmouth Commencement Speech. “Perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches.” But he only won 54% of his points.

The Coming Birth-Control Revolution. “Researchers have taken massive steps toward developing simple, convenient, and effective contraceptive options for men with virtually zero side effects.” And it could “transform women’s contraception too”.

Trolley Problem Variations for Dads. “As he begins to think it over, he keeps saying, ‘This is exactly like the Kobayashi Maru!’ He then spends so much time explaining how Captain Kirk cheated to win the scenario that he never pulls the lever.”

Photographer Sue Kwon Captured the New York Hip Hop Scene in Its Infancy. Biggie Smalls, Jay Z, Eminem, Method Man, De La Soul, Nas, Pusha T, and more.

This 1945 film shows how a bicycle is designed and manufactured.

“Historical fanfiction” and the dangerous intellectual dishonesty of originalism. “If you want to know what rights you have, originalism commands you to consult a time capsule.”