animation Do not watch "Hi Stranger" while high Rob Beschizza

rpgs D&D's latest module, "Vecna: Eve of Ruin," and the trouble with high-level adventures Gareth Branwyn

photography The history of Priscilla, 1969, the iconic image from Dinosaur, Jr.'s Green Mind Jennifer Sandlin

conspirituality We need to talk about Marianne Williamson Jennifer Sandlin

law Manosphere split over abortion bans Rob Beschizza

movies Disney's live-action Pinocchio trailer is here Devin Nealy

movies The Empire Strikes Back premiered on this day in 1980 Devin Nealy

comedy The freewheeling madness of Curb Your Enthusiasm Devin Nealy

memes The bizarre internet mystery of an Avril Lavigne song that doesn't exist Thom Dunn

synthesizers Listen to this wild vinyl recording of a rogue psych professor and some early Moog employees Thom Dunn

Sex Understanding the neuroscience of pleasure Mark Frauenfelder

thanksgiving Escape your racist relatives with this aptly-named Thanksgiving cocktail Rusty Blazenhoff

security Researchers find mountains of sensitive data on totalled Teslas in junkyards Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Material culture, considered (harmful?) Cory Doctorow

politics Laurie Penny at the DNC: "Dissent will not be tolerated. Protest will not be permitted." Cory Doctorow

Loki is a modern anti-hero Joanne Harris

guily pleasures Let's put the guilt back in guilty pleasures Mark Dery

Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self Mark Dery

Science Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? Cory Doctorow