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“Social media plays a pivotal role in spreading these rumor-panics which travel around the globe in the blink of an eye. They are part of a greater moral panic about the fear of strangers and terrorists in an increasingly urban, impersonal, and unpredictable world.” (It’s either that or the big red noses.) The Guardian’s Matthew Teague tracks the false clown sightings back to patient zero. This was the day it all began.

+ Why are left-handers so much more rare? And can you be left-eared?

+ Ten years after the show first aired, The Ringer imagines what’s going on with the characters from Friday Night Lights. (Riggins is still a total hunk.)