Science The Anthropocene Working Group has chosen Crawford Lake as a "golden spike" that can help scientists understand this new geological epoch Jennifer Sandlin

science fiction Theorizing a post-capitalist future with Kim Stanley Robinson Cory Doctorow

Comics "Into the Unbeing" offers 80s-style sci-fi horror for the climate change era Thom Dunn

oceans Human noise is threatening ocean life David Pescovitz

climate change Ocean pollution is shrinking mammal testicles Thom Dunn

animation Preview 'The Mill,' an ecological allegory leavened with pandemic themes Andrea James

media diets This is the "media diet" of 99% Invisible's Roman Mars Mark Frauenfelder

Bird's eye views Aerial photos of sea-salt flats Clive Thompson

History Ancient Earth Globe: see what the world looked like from space in the age of the dinosaurs Rob Beschizza

happy mutants A comic that profiles Columbia University's first-ever comics curator Cory Doctorow

music The man who seeks the sound of silence David Pescovitz

William S. Burroughs and the Dead-End Horror of the Centipede God Mark Dery

cuisine The Rat King: On the Fascinations (and Revulsions) of Rattus Mark Dery