book review Lissa Soep's "Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End" Jason Weisberger
DRONES Arms manufacturer sponsors new opera about the horrors of drone warfare at the Kennedy Center Thom Dunn
wikipedia Station Eleven author does an interview just to fix her marital status on Wikipedia Thom Dunn
sanitation Did the Brontës all die young from inadvertently drinking graveyard-contaminated water? Gareth Branwyn
star wars Star Wars Insider explores some of the lesser-known holidays in a galaxy far, far away Thom Dunn
tabloids Biden's woes, Prince Philip's secrets, and Tom Cruise's exploding face, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Japan A popular service in Japan lets you rent-a-person to just sort of be there with you, and do nothing else Thom Dunn
language Tone indicators and the ever-evolving quest to clarify what we're saying online Clive Thompson
cyborgs People with quadriplegia use brain-computer interfaces to compete in a cyborg olympics David Pescovitz