police brutality "During the arrest his health deteriorated" – activist dies after police beating Rob Beschizza

Games Sealed 1985 Super Mario Bros game fetches record $3m at auction Rob Beschizza

conspiracy theories He hired the world's best debunker to talk him out of UFOs, and it backfired Ellsworth Toohey

mexico The promise of Mexico's Tren Maya has gone off the rails Séamus Bellamy

Science This weekend's blue moon is also a micromoon (but won't be blue and isn't smaller) Rob Beschizza

books New biography captures Doonesbury's 50-year sweep of American life Ruben Bolling

electronic frontier foundation This website shows you exactly what sites know about you Séamus Bellamy

horror Doc Copper's nose ring in The Thing was the actor's own idea Ellsworth Toohey

data Apocalypse Early Warning System tracks the rich scrambling their private jets Rob Beschizza

privacy How a retired technician handed EFF the proof of NSA mass spying Ellsworth Toohey

maps This dialect map covers all of North America's English accents Gail Sherman

books Cartoonist Gemma Correll's moving and funny book about her lifelong mental illness: Anxietyland Ruben Bolling

apple Apple doesn't want you to see where its electricity comes from Séamus Bellamy

hunting wabbits Cops, not bunnies: Newport Beach chooses enforcement over art park Jason Weisberger

Science Desmond Morris wrote The Naked Ape in four weeks to pay for a house Ellsworth Toohey

music This weird bowed instrument sounds disturbingly like a person Popkin

surveillance Stop Flock campaign targets invasive surveillance network Rob Beschizza

politics Graphic novel about life at the Elan School, a notoriously abusive "troubled teen" wilderness camp Rob Beschizza

law Scambaiter hires two fake lawyers to fight each other in court Grant St. Clair

Games 700 AI agents built a civilization with a new religion Ellsworth Toohey