Gimlet’s Union Drive, Twisted Graphene, and Psychedelic Mice: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Well , folk music , it ’s just a few hour unsure of the turn of the calendar month , and you have a go at it what that means : April Fool ’s 24-hour interval . Yes , it ’s that limited time of year when savorless brand , tight - spirited stripling , and tech Titan compete to be the first to trick you into thinking they loose Skittle ’s … For Men , that it ’s a good approximation to eat anentire pod of datura seeded player , or that they ’re releasing a Modern app that ’s like Uber but with riding lawnmowers , severally .

Well , the team here at Gizmodo is above that . Instead of planning a dumb joke , we ’ve spend the last week reporting out stories on everything from Gimlet Media ’s attempts tostall a faculty unionisation effortand Silicon Valley ’s slow - but - steadypivot to militarismtoexperiments with mice and psychedelics . We indite about a wave ofdisease and mental health crisesin southeastern Africa following the annihilating wallop of Cyclone Idai , as well as how Superfund website stateside were hitby this calendar month ’s bomb cyclone . Elsewhere , we looked back atsci - fi classic The Matrixfor its twentieth anniversary , exploredadvancements in graphene , and continued our series on30 years of the vane .

Finally , Gizmodo would like to announce that all of our lector , and especially Kinja commenters , have win one free roquette trip decidedly not directly into the Sun ! * Be certain to get to the G.M.G. Sunmodo undimmed and early tomorrow , because you ’ll be establish at noon ! And keep your pinna capable for a “ surprise announcement ” during the trip … rent ’s just say this trip is going to be the hot tech and skill experience of 2019 ! 😎

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.