hair Mother braids her daughter's hair in intricate, beautiful patterns every morning! David Pescovitz

adorable doggos This Corgi named Archie does the best rendition of the "demure" trend! Jennifer Sandlin

fashion Hair artist creates amazing bikini top from her own braids Popkin

education A Texas high school desperately wants a Black student to change his hairstyle Jason Weisberger

books Tears of the Trufflepig is a head-shakingly brilliant novel about contraband animals, Mexico and a labyrinthine conspiracy Elías Villoro

Wednesday Gorgeous "Wednesday"-themed cake Jennifer Sandlin

books See you Soon is a children's book about living with family incarceration Elías Villoro

authoritarianism TSA officer grabbed Native American woman's braids, snapped them and said "Giddy up!" Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments": a long-awaited Handmaid's Tale sequel fulfills its promise Cory Doctorow

travel TSA admits that its pornoscanners flag Black women and others with curly hair for humiliating, invasive searches Cory Doctorow

art Laetitia Ky twists her hair into fantastically intricate, socially conscious art David Pescovitz

happy mutants Jeff "Sweet Tooth" Lemire's new horror comic Gideon Falls is spooky af Cory Doctorow

Technology Human hair as a computer interface David Pescovitz

spooks Reality Winner profile is a beautiful portrait of a brilliant, principled patriot who messed up Cory Doctorow

crimes Man steals chicken and biscuits, say police Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Everfair: a diverse, ambitious steampunk novel of Fabian socialists and American Black Zionists in Belgian Congo Cory Doctorow

novels Excerpt from The Biographies of Ordinary People, by Nicole Dieker Nicole Dieker

Technology Watch these drones build a rope bridge you could actually walk across Xeni Jardin

offworld Remembering Syberia, an adventure game about a woman finding herself Katherine Cross

videos We visited Ukraine's Palace of Corruption Jasmina Tesanovic