History Captain Billy's Whiz Bang gave a pastor's Egypt trip the pulp treatment in 1922 Ellsworth Toohey
News Maria Butina pleads GUILTY. Russian spy "knowingly engaged in conspiracy against the United States" Xeni Jardin
Science Magnificent online experience inspired by the Voyager Golden Record supports SETI, Carl Sagan Institute, Astronomers Without Borders David Pescovitz
Federal judge says Blackwater guard who murdered innocents is a "good young man," gives him a life sentence Mark Frauenfelder
fiction Bruce Sterling: "From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter," a short story Bruce Sterling
politics Tony Blair channels Ronald Reagan, "doesn't remember" sending dissidents to Libya for torture Cory Doctorow