BBC Documentary How England's most famous steeplejack brought down a chimney without a single explosive (video) Mark Frauenfelder

medical Florida man sneezed out his intestines while eating at diner Allan Rose Hill

healthcare New journalism series highlights the simple mundanity of transgender healthcare Thom Dunn

COVID-19 People with COVID have a subtle scent that dogs can detect in under a second David Pescovitz

ransomware The penniless hero of the ransomware epidemic has written more decryptors than anyone else Cory Doctorow

tabloids The multiverse, universal wave function and quantum mechanics in this week's tawdry tabloids Peter Sheridan

fake news Melania humiliated, a JFK conspiracy bombshell, and beautiful people in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Science For more than half a century, the sugar industry has used Big Tobacco tactics to suppress sugar/cancer link and to confuse the science Cory Doctorow

media Frozen zombie killers coming to life, and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

The charley horse from Hell — why you should work at a standing desk Gammy Hamhock

autism Pedagogy of the Depressed: my experiences as a special ed student in the 1990s. Boing Boing