An episode of Untucked: RuPaul's Drag Race featured a "New Wave Queens" episode itself inspired by Wee Wee Pole featuring RuPaul and The U-Hauls, the underground punk band RuPaul fronted… Read the rest of the article: Watch RuPaul fronting an underground punk band in 1983

Inspired by the ideas, philosophy, and worldview of Octavia O. Butler, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne marie brown invites readers to embrace the constant and contingent, as… Read the rest of the article: Watch an abandoned ant city get excavated

"Knowledge overconfidence is associated with anti-consensus views on controversial scientific issues," runs the title of a recent study published in Science which highlights the consequences of claiming to know something… Read the rest of the article: Scientists study why people do not believe in scientific studies

In a Tik Tok reel, a lawyer demonstrates in real-time (with receipts) how iPhone users pay more for DoorDash than Android users, one of the points scaffolding the $1 billion… Read the rest of the article: Lawsuits loom for DoorDash

According to the most recent numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2020, 1 in 66 adult U.S. residents, some 3,890,400 people, were on either parole or probation, two… Read the rest of the article: No Way Home: a new documentary about life without parole

In 1985, a Houston, Texas-based pop punk outfit released "The Moo Album." Among the memorable tracks like "Don't Be A Hippie," "Ghost in a Bikini," and "Milk" is "The Moo… Read the rest of the article: Two songs with the sound of cows mooing

At a time when classified information is again in the news it might be worth remembering a different example of someone keeping – and then releasing – classified information. On… Read the rest of the article: The Pentagon Papers were first published 52 years ago

"I saw a demon on my shoulder, it's lookin' like patriarchy." — Song 32. Hip Hop artist Noname announced from her Instagram account nonamehiding that a new album will drop… Read the rest of the article: Noname new album Sundial drops this summer

Gun violence in the U.S. does not respect international borders. Gun violence perpetrated in Mexico by drug cartels is directly related to the politics of the Second Amendment in the… Read the rest of the article: A short documentary on gun violence: "The United States and Mexico: The Same Guns Are Killing Us."

Every musical instrument has a history, an origin story with primary practitioners that were storytellers and sound makers. Every origin story exists within social, political, economic, and cultural contexts. Origin… Read the rest of the article: A book about the rebellious history of the banjo

In the fallout from the Florida governor and Republican candidate for the presidential nomination, Ron DeSantis's anti-human laws, Republicans are talking out of both sides of their mouths -again. Senate… Read the rest of the article: "This bill is 100% supposed to scare you," says Rick Roth, Florida State Representative

The Rodent Research 5 mission, a collaboration between NASA and SpaceX (Elon Mouse-k?), is the subject of a new study published in Cell Reports explaining some of the medical insights… Read the rest of the article: Here's how rodent research on the International Space Station is going

"Glorious Game," released in April by El Michels Affair & Black Thought, is "a fusion of impossibly sharp lyricism and languid Jazz." Eleven tracks (with a title track reprise) featuring… Read the rest of the article: Black Thought and Yasiin Bey to collaborate on new musical project

In 1963, British muckraker journalist and political activist Jessica Mitford, who lived much of her life in the U.S., wrote An American Way of Death, exposing the funeral industry's abuses… Read the rest of the article: Zena Sharman's "Queering Death" series tackles end of life care for LGBTQ+ people

In the past year, 49 states in the U.S. have proposed 556 anti-queer/anti-trans laws, of which 80 have passed, 104 failed, and 372 are still active. Combined with increased violence… Read the rest of the article: Human Rights Campaign declares a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans

Solidarity amongst Indigenous peoples is circulating and growing. Shared experiences enduring and thriving despite the ravages of capitalist accumulation and Christian dominion on the people, plants, and animals of the… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy this tri-lingual Indigenous podcast in Quechua, Spanish and English

I have posted about No Labels, the reactionary centrist political action committee bankrolling Senator Kirsten Sinema and her attack on what's left of the social infrastructure of the Second Reconstruction.… Read the rest of the article: Shining a light on the dark money of The Marble Freedom Trust

"Can I have seven Bing-Bang burgers, please?" With this phrase, spoken by a 13 ft tall, 19-year-old Black man named Cootie ordering some fast food and shocking the restaurant's clientele,… Read the rest of the article: Trailer for "I'm a Virgo" new show about a 13-ft tall teen

Whenever I come across a video of Marjorie Taylor-Greene making things up from a position of ignorance, I think of an interview with Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah… Read the rest of the article: The 2008 interviews that sank Sarah Palin wouldn't matter now

A new episode of the podcast In Machines We Trust explores how universities, medical researchers, practitioners, and the private industry use AI as a diagnostic tool for medical issues. "Hidden… Read the rest of the article: How voice data is being used with AI to generate "predictive" medical diagnoses