cold snaps Woman with wet hair walks outside in the midwest, hair freezes Mark Frauenfelder

climate change Coldest temperature ever recorded makes Earth "almost like another planet" Carla Sinclair

Technology "Weird Little Devices": first one listens to Cold War spy radio Ellsworth Toohey

Space Jupiter used to be bigger—much bigger Rob Beschizza

delightful creatures Two racing dogs slip and slide on ice like a scene straight out of a cartoon (video) Carla Sinclair

tabloids Biden suffers strokes, Prince Andrew's new sex scandal, and a UFO over America, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

code Code Vault: there's an archival film copy of Github 250 meters underground in Svalbard, down the road from the seeds Rob Beschizza

The Beatles Why John Lennon initially hated "Twist and Shout" Gareth Branwyn

tabloids Princess Diana exhumed, satanism & Mariah Carey, and the White House's China gamble, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

History My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing Rob Beschizza

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

game of thrones In "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken", Game of Thrones mocks the power of powerful women Rob Beschizza

offworld In Bloodborne's brutal world, I found myself Laura Hudson

Glimpses of the long-gone, cool, decaying seediness of 42nd Street Mitch O'Connell

science fiction Koko Takes a Holiday Boing Boing

Robogenesis: the terrifying sequel to Robopocalypse Daniel H Wilson

recaps Helena grows up and everyone pairs off on Orphan Black [S2E6] Caroline Siede