fbi One of the jurors who convicted Whitey Bulger started up a strange pen pal friendship with him Thom Dunn

crispr CRISPR twins who had their genes edited also had their brains altered to make them smarter, scientists believe Carla Sinclair

Science Why Ganzfeld experiments haven't proven ESP Popkin

Comics Marvel's greatest hits curated by Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum Gareth Branwyn

tabloids Biden health crisis and Britain's clown prince in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

occult "Uncertain Places: Essays on Occult & Outsider Experiences," is a trip Ferdinando Buscema

new york Recovered 1976 documentary follows around a New York gang Mark Frauenfelder

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz

whoa Discovery's 'Dr. Delirium & the Edgewood Experiments' has me intrigued Jason Weisberger

4chan 4chan founder Chris "moot" Poole no longer works at Google Mark Frauenfelder

synthesizers Listen to this wild vinyl recording of a rogue psych professor and some early Moog employees Thom Dunn

noads The man who destroyed skepticism Mitch Horowitz

writing Cory Doctorow experiments with AI writing partner Sudowrite Mark Frauenfelder

mass surveillance Garnet Hertz's "Experiments in Surveillance Capitalism: Device for Calling the Department of Homeland Security" Gareth Branwyn

Business Google backtracks on desktop search redesign blurring ads from organic results Xeni Jardin

Science Russian CRISPR scientist announces new controversial effort to edit genes that cause deafness David Pescovitz

designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

creativity Charles Darwin spent most of his day chilling out Andrea James

snakes Amateur vaccine developer has let venomous snakes bite him 160 times Mark Frauenfelder