happy mutants Celebrating a decade of writing a song every day with a best-of album Cory Doctorow

animals Baby barn owls rescued from a dock loft before first flight Popkin

Technology Proton is letting parents reserve a child's email before birth Ellsworth Toohey

Whatever: Study shows Gen X reaching peak mental performance Jason Weisberger

gaming Of Floating Isles: gaming memoir explores identity and loss Ellsworth Toohey

cancer Research finds ultramarathon running is a risk factor for colorectal cancer Jennifer Sandlin

mice Scientists create mice with two fathers Allan Rose Hill

life advice Your favorite internet dad is here with home, car, and life advice Jennifer Sandlin

Comics "We Called Them Giants" is a gorgeously haunting graphic novel Thom Dunn

money 5 most evil con artists in history: Their shocking scams revealed  Ellsworth Toohey

politics Trump's VP hopeful proudly describes killing a puppy Jason Weisberger

quilt Martinis helped fuel this psychedelic lava lamp quilt design Rusty Blazenhoff

Comics Hate Revisited: the return of a '90s cult classic comic book Mark Frauenfelder

giants How the world's only dwarf-giant grew from 4'10" to 7'8" Mark Frauenfelder

health This is how long you have left to live David Pescovitz

Science New study: Chimps undergo menopause too Ruben Bolling

climate change Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme Thom Dunn

football Why do parents still let kids play football? Jason Weisberger

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