Space SpaceX and Space Adventures offer tourist trips to orbit David Pescovitz

music Sale on the Voyager Golden Record LP and CD sets and The Family Acid: California photobook! David Pescovitz

Space Company's goal is to build orbiting space hotel by 2025 David Pescovitz

Science Solar sail test successful so far! David Pescovitz

music Chuck Klosterman on space rock David Pescovitz

Space NASA opening International Space Station to tourists David Pescovitz

Space Astronaut's magnificent photo of SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule approaching the International Space Station David Pescovitz

video games I still don't know what Kingdom Hearts is about, but there's a new one coming Grant St. Clair

Games Sealed 1985 Super Mario Bros game fetches record $3m at auction Rob Beschizza

Internet An anonymous group posted internet puzzles to recruit code-breakers, then vanished Ellsworth Toohey

california Five men left a basketball game in 1978 and drove into a mystery Ellsworth Toohey

books In 1932, John W. Campbell imagined machines outliving humanity Ellsworth Toohey

Science How Claude Shannon used his wife as a language model in 1950 Ellsworth Toohey

Science Robot tadpole fools frog dads, but mom knows better Gail Sherman

garden Tomatoes do not need to die on the vine for flavor Jason Weisberger

archaeology Ancient squirrel droppings unlock Ice Age DNA goldmine Séamus Bellamy

Francis Cadell painting bought for $100 in thrift store fetches more than $250,000 at auction Rob Beschizza

activism "Laxative" brownies turn Nantucket School Committee meeting into Schrodinger's shitshow Rob Beschizza

nazis i hate these guys Noted Nazi cosplayer Gregory Bovino thinks he should be president Jason Weisberger