commercials A chatty relative runs out of battery juice in this 1994 Duracell commercial: The Puttermans Popkin
Science Sex as a cure for nasal congestion, flying rhinoceroses, and cat-human communication: winners of the 2021 Ig Nobel prizes David Pescovitz
tabloids Armie Hammer's cannibalism and Lizzie Borden's ax in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Schilling Jr.
Business Demetrification: improving social media by removing public like/follower/repost counts Cory Doctorow
happy mutants It's January, so it's time to settle in with the annual WELL State of the Union address, with special guest James Bridle! Cory Doctorow
corruption Deleting Facebook is not enough: without antitrust, the company will be our lives' "operating system" Cory Doctorow
class war McMansion meanings: why do America's jumbo-sized status homes have useless "formal spaces?" Cory Doctorow