COVID-19 Stop spreading unconfirmed COVID-19 symptoms around Thom Dunn

bitcoin The mysterious correlation between avocado and Bitcoin prices Thom Dunn

AI "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow

Business Hedge funds killed the newspaper industry, not the web Cory Doctorow

class war Black voter registration is inversely correlated with black death at police hands Cory Doctorow

COVID-19 Yankee Candle reviews track COVID waves Jennifer Sandlin

useful stuff I used a Snuggle-Pedic Full Body Pillow in my Warsaw hotel and it was a godsend Mark Frauenfelder

misinformation Academics rush to correct rapper Nicki Minaj's claims that a vaccine caused her "cousin's friend" to become impotent Annie Rauwerda

COVID-19 COVID-19 is causing long-term mental health problems in some patients Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Dictionary searches for "Schadenfreude" were up 30,500% after Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis Thom Dunn

trumpism How Google Search Trends for "white supremacists" and "Antifa" have changed in the last 4 years Thom Dunn

happy mutants Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change Cory Doctorow

reefer madness Malcolm Gladwell wrote a flawed weed moral panic piece for The New Yorker Mark Frauenfelder

shootings Gun injuries go down by 20% during NRA conventions Clive Thompson

politics At anti-monopoly event, Al Franken blasts big tech Cory Doctorow

intermittent fasting How to save money when flying – don't eat Mark Frauenfelder

Kids Antidepressant use by moms during pregnancy linked to increased autism risk Xeni Jardin

gender Professional skeptics on misinformation & hoaxes: anti-vaxx, Planned Parenthood Cory Doctorow