music Listen to the first new The Cure song since 2008 Thom Dunn

religion Church of England's first woman leader installed as Archibishop of Canterbury Rob Beschizza

Science Antarctica's oldest iceberg is turning blue and about to disintegrate Ellsworth Toohey

stream of consciousness Grandpa Puddin' Brains free-associates at captive House Republicans Jason Weisberger

experimental music How to make extra-long, strange, and trippy tape loops inside a standard cassette Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

bundle of nerves CNN's MAGA snowflake Scott Jennings melts down when Democratic panelist gets too close: "Don't touch me!" (video) Carla Sinclair

movies "Ultimate" edit of Caligula debuts at Cannes Rob Beschizza

music The Disintegration Loops is a deeply beautiful 4-volume album series by William Basinski Popkin

music William Basinki's "Watermusic II" helps me focus every time I listen to it Popkin

jrpgs A conversation with Youtuber, writer, and independent artist Erick Landon Jeffery Klaehn

music Watch The Cure play the "Disintegration" album in its entirety David Pescovitz

health Flesh eating bacteria that causes genitals to "rot away" pops up in the UK Mark Frauenfelder

music The Caretaker's beautiful music about dementia David Pescovitz

happy mutants Marc "Half-Life" Laidlaw's gonzo cyberpunk is back in DRM-free ebooks Cory Doctorow

picks WATCH: Metal Disintegration Machine vs. snapped-off tool part stuck in cast iron Rob Beschizza

space flight Virgin Galactic crash blamed on "single human error" Xeni Jardin

Europe Sorrow in the Balkans Jasmina Tesanovic

Reviews Where'd You Go, Bernadette: funny/dark novel about the disintegration of a Microsoft family Mark Frauenfelder