In 1989, the Chinese government slaughtered pro-democracy student activists whose commitment to justice swept the nation; now they're facing a new student uprising, one comprised of ardent Communist youth whose… Read the rest of the article: Chinese students, made to study Communism, are rising up for workers' rights

A new report summarizing three years of investigationsfrom the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the TSA calls out the agency for its "toxic leadership culture, misconduct, mismanagement, whistleblower… Read the rest of the article: "Like Lord of the Flies": working at the TSA really sucks

Miami artist Brian Reedy creates pop-culture block prints that he sells on Etsy; his store is full of amazing handmade linoblock rice-paper prints, at $20 each, like "A Trip To… Read the rest of the article: Brian Reedy's pop-culture, rice-paper linocuts

A German-Danish study of more than 2,500 people, published in the APA's Psychological Review, investigates the correlates of the "dark traits" in human personality ("egoism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, spitefulness"… Read the rest of the article: Large scale psych study identifies "homo economicus" as the source of all evil in the world

Donald Trump has wrung many concessions out of Justin Trudeau on the NAFTA renegotiation, but none is more nonsensical and potentially damaging than a 20 year copyright term extension that… Read the rest of the article: Justin Trudeau's NAFTA concessions include 20 year copyright extension

The British government has been immobilised by Brexit preparations: hundreds of millions of pounds paid by insurers to the government to rebuild from flooding are sitting idle in savings accounts… Read the rest of the article: All levels of UK government have been paralysed by Brexit

Ajit Pai called it "illegal." EFF called it "the strongest Net Neutrality measure in the country." The telecoms companies got their employees to demand that California Governor Jerry Brown veto… Read the rest of the article: California's Net Neutrality bill is now law

Say what you will about the Trump era: it has ushered in a SNL renaissance. Between Baldwin's eerily good Trump and McKinnon's Sessions, Melissa McCarthy's Spicer and Bill Murray's Bannon,… Read the rest of the article: Matt Damon's eerily good Kavanaugh SNL sketch

For the first time, the most common US bill in circulation is the $100: these benjamins aren't being used to transact our daily business — they're the preferred form of… Read the rest of the article: $100 bills outnumber $1s, and they're stuffed in our mattresses

MIT Comparative Media Studies researcher/instructor Chris Peterson is an adrent supporter of the Math Prize for Girls, and as part of his work with the organization, he's learned about the… Read the rest of the article: Twitter suspends academic who quoted feminist STEM research

The UK Conservative Party's annual conference is about to kick off in Birmingham, and the Tories have distributed an app ahead of time to all attendees: senior ministers, government officials,… Read the rest of the article: App for UK Conservative Party conference exposes all attendees' private info

Kavanaugh didn't just DARVO his way through yesterday's hearing: his bluster, tears, rage, and blame-shifting also allowed him to dodge a remarkable number of questions raised by the senators.

Yesterday, at least 90,000,000 Facebook users were forced to log back into the service without any explanation; later, the company revealed that at least 50,000,000 of them had been hacked,… Read the rest of the article: A detailed anatomy of the hack that compromised Facebook's 50 million user breach

When news broke yesterday that Facebook had suffered a breach affecting at least 50,000,000 users, Facebook users (understandably) began to widely share links to articles about the breach.

You know the drill: someone proposes something utterly commonsense, that has been done all over the world (say, universal healthcare) and the next thing you know, someone's shown up to… Read the rest of the article: Modern Monetary Theory: why government spending isn't like household checkbooks

Every year, security researchers gather at Defcon's Voting Village to probe voting machines and report on the longstanding, systematic security problems with them, in order to give secure voting advocates… Read the rest of the article: Defcon Voting Village report shows that hacking voting machines takes less time than voting

Jim Mortleman & Stuart Houghton write, "We're two UK tech journalists who also write comedy. This is our (UK-based) scripted comi-documentary podcast explaining the weird, wacky and potentially world-changing field… Read the rest of the article: Comedy/documentary explains quantum computing for a "confused general audience"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZc6Aslo8Qc John Frost writes, "Travis, a railroad engineer, recreated iconic buildings from Disneyland's Fantasyland in his spare time. The result is an incredibly detailed and faithful recreation of facades to… Read the rest of the article: Guy recreates Disneyland's Fantasyland in his basement

A reminder that I'm wrapping up my Columbia University lecture series tonight at 5PM, when I'm appearing onstage with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad at the lecture theater in Pulitzer Hall (RSVP… Read the rest of the article: New York City! I'm onstage tonight with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad (Swarthmore, you're next!)

Solid objects turn out to be mostly made of empty space and whirling particles, but we act as though they're solid, because we rarely have to interact with them in… Read the rest of the article: Lies programmers believe about calendars