tech The first webcam was invented in order to see if there was still coffee in the Cambridge break room Annie Rauwerda

Copyfight Anti-DRM artists march on the World Wide Web Consortium today Cory Doctorow

law Fujitsu "expert" helped Post Office falsely convict postmasters in IT scandal Rob Beschizza

archaeology "Extraordinary" 4,000-year-old skull reveals medical milestone Allan Rose Hill

History What Neanderthals looked like 75,000 years ago Rob Beschizza

archaeology Psychedelic music depicted on ancient Peruvian rock art David Pescovitz

language There is a Royal Order of Adjectives, and you follow it without knowing what it is Gail Sherman

medical breakthroughs Massachusetts man is first human to get genetically modified pig kidney transplant Carla Sinclair

fonts NanoFont, a 3×4 pixel font with "legible" 2×2 lowercase glyphs Rob Beschizza

escapes Historian locked in medieval bathroom escapes using eyeliner and cotton swab David Pescovitz

research Manosphere grifters misuse evolutionary psychology to promote anti-feminist views Jennifer Sandlin

History When the Black & Tans left Ireland for Palestine Thom Dunn

tabloids Meghan Markle's "casting couch" and an Epstein "sex slave" murdered in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

world records Bella, a 14-year-old cat, sets new Guinness World Record for loudest purr Jennifer Sandlin

gadgets Raspberry Pi 5, finally Rob Beschizza

climate change Amazon wants to give hundreds of millions of dollars to oil companies for carbon removal Thom Dunn

Science Atmosphere of exoplanet is found to be indicative of an ocean surface… and maybe, possibly life Ruben Bolling

theater Multimedia opera based on Philip K. Dick's VALIS coming to MIT Thom Dunn