pharma A new drug claims to treat dwarfism. Not everyone thinks it needs treatment. Thom Dunn

brains The brain-in-a-bucket drug lab is here Jason Weisberger

music The genius who created Pink Floyd then vanished (video) Ellsworth Toohey

Legendary producer reveals untold Beastie Boys collaboration stories Lee Keeler

Wikenigma is a fascinating encyclopedia of the holes in human knowledge Allan Rose Hill

neuroscience Alzheimer's breakthrough: Cancer drug wakes up sleepy brain cells in mice and human brain cells Mark Frauenfelder

conspiracy theories MAGA grifters cash in selling fake cures to imaginary disease Mark Frauenfelder

fish New study: Fish can get addicted to meth after eating human poop Thom Dunn

film Watch "Witches Cradle," an experimental occult film from 1943 Popkin

Tweaker trout can get addicted to meth in our waterways David Pescovitz

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

medicine Ebola is now a treatable disease Séamus Bellamy

Science More promising news about phages, the parasites that prey on parasites Cory Doctorow

music THE BUREAU: Part Three, "Assessing Others" — with a Metasonix D-2000 Vacuum Tube Drum Machine Ethan Persoff

war Warring militant groups are making the fight against Ebola even more dangerous than it already is Séamus Bellamy

happy mutants Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: DIY epipens were just the start, now it's home bioreactors to thwart Big Pharma's price-gouging Cory Doctorow

Science Terminal breast cancer "cured" by injecting patient with billions of her own white blood cells Cory Doctorow

Business Bitcoin's high valuation has ruined it as a medium of exchange Cory Doctorow

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein

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