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These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. The only explicitly spooky book on this list of October releases is Out There Screaming, edited by John Joseph Adams and Jordan Peele. This anthology of new Black horror spans from the supernatural, like a girl searching for the demon that killed her parents, to the all too real, like traffic stops and lynch mobs.

Fredric Baur dreamed up the original Pringles can. Now he’s buried in one. In 1966, Baur came up with a clever way for Procter & Gamble to stack chips uniformly rather than tossing them in a bag. He was so proud of the achievement, he wanted to go to his grave with it. So when Baur died last month, his children buried the 89-year-old’s ashes in one of his iconic cans.

September 11, 1503 — On this day Michelangelo began sculpting the twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ in marble. They were to stand in niches at Florence Cathedral. He abandoned the project two years later when he was summoned to Rome to build a tomb for Pope Julius II. The tomb was scheduled to be finished in five years. It included forty statues and was on such a grand scale that the Pope and Michelangelo agreed Saint Peter’s Basilica would have to be rebuilt to house it.

The U.K. House of Commonsvoted Tuesday to advance the “Tobacco and Vapes Bill” that wouldmake it illegal for anyone born in 2009 or beyond to buy tobacco and add restrictions to vaping. Legislators voted in favor of the bill in a 383- to-67 vote.   The bill would amount to an effective lifetime ban on smoking for those under the age of 15 and has now moved forward from its second reading to the committee stage.

Today, TIME and TIME for Kids reveal the 2024 Kid of the Year, recognizing one exceptional young person—and five honorees—giving hope for the future.   This year’s recipient is 15-year-old scientist Heman Bekele from Fairfax, Virginia. He is recognized for developing an affordable compound-based bar of soap that could in the future be a new and more accessible way to deliver medication to treat skin cancers, including melanoma.  Bekele tells TIME: “I’m really passionate about skin-cancer research….

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Chris O'Meara / APWhen a game is named after a little-known family pub chain with outlets in only 23 states (and one too many apostrophes), perhaps it’s a sign that the college bowl system has hit rock bottom? On Dec. 21 Louisvillle beat Southern Mississippi, 31-28, in the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, played in St. Petersburg, Fla. The game’s announced attendance, 20,017, was the lowest for any bowl game in five years.

The anxiety over phone addiction has finally reached the heart of Silicon Valley: Stanford University's computer science department. The department that birthed Google and 40,000 other companies has now given rise to a group of four seniors working to make phones less addictive. They call themselves "Stanford Students Against Addictive Devices," and they spoke to Business Insider about their campaign. The four friends — Sanjay Kannan, Evan Sabri Eyuboglu, Divyahans Gupta, and Cameron Ramos, all of whom graduate this spring — are aware that they could end up working for big tech companies like Apple or Google, and that they're learning the very skills needed to build the systems that many blame for device addiction.