Kevin Nguyen

Earlier this week we published Ian Frisch’s very wild tale “Taken for a Ride.” If you missed it, use this Sunday afternoon to catch up on a story that includes a Tinder heist, a revenge plot, and one inappropriately horny man. (Plus, some of the best animation we’ve ever commissioned.)

Arthouse streamer The Criterion Channel has eight classic Yeoh-led kung fu films starting March 1 — plenty of time to celebrate her career before we all cross our fingers for her Oscar win a couple weeks later.

A few months back, Eleanor Cummins wrote a terrific story about Return Home, the facility outside Seattle where you can have a body turned to soil, rather than just buried in it. Legally, human composting is gaining more steam, and Cummins talked about it with our friends at Today, Explained for their most recent episode.

The impending railroad strike could—*coughs*—derail the US economy. Intelligencer’s Eric Levitz has a great explainer on the labor dispute, and what could get it—*coughs again*—back on track.

This web game couldn’t be simpler: it times how quickly you can knock out the ABCs on your keyboard. That’s it! (Mitchell tells me that this game is a favorite of Marques Brownlee’s.) Anyway, in two attempts I got 4.337 seconds. Try and beat that!

We won’t spoil the word, but around The Verge, we got our butts kicked. “Ludicrous,” says Tristan; Jake declares he is “mourning”; meanwhile, Adi isn’t sure she’s ever heard this word before; Andy got yesterday’s Wordle in one try — only to fail today’s. “It’s been a rollercoaster,” he says.

For $75,000—and one agonizing operation and recovery later—you can add about three inches to your height via leg lengthening.

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving ownership of his company away to “a specially designed set of trusts and nonprofit organizations,” ensuring its roughly $100 million a year in profits go to fighting climate change.

Refreshed t-shirts, and even stickers. Get them while you can.