History 1900 film shows viewers what it feels like to be hit by a car — and ends with a cryptic message about pleasing Mother Popkin
Science "My one great mistake": Einstein's atomic bomb letter comes to auction, expected to fetch $150,000 Ellsworth Toohey
psychology How an 1800s French doctor's experiments with electrocuted faces revealed science of real smiles Ellsworth Toohey
drugs New documents released about the US government's secret LSD mind-control program Allan Rose Hill
computer history Watch the 1968 Bell Labs documentary that inspired HAL 9000's famous death scene Ellsworth Toohey
robots Scientists create a robot controlled by living mushroom. See the fungus that learned to crawl Mark Frauenfelder
health Wall Street Journal reporter eats poison oak leaves to become immune — risking dreaded itchy butt Mark Frauenfelder
tabloids Covid cover-up, UFO cover-up, and Trump's sadistic sex tapes in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
black lives matter Alan Moore has been donating all his Watchmen money to Black Lives Matter Thom Dunn