personal finance In 1995, Patrick Combs deposited a fake junk mail check for $95,093 and the bank cleared it Mark Frauenfelder

News Strange 1996 "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" Usenet posts remain a mystery Ellsworth Toohey

academic integrity Harvard expert on rule-breaking accused of fraud Mark Frauenfelder

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

music The end of Mills College and its massively influential experimental music scene? David Pescovitz

noads The man who destroyed skepticism Mitch Horowitz

manga Yoshiharu Tsuge: the first manga artist who used his personal life as story material Mark Frauenfelder

late stage capitalism Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt Cory Doctorow

piketty Modern Monetary Theory: the economic basis for expanded social spending and greater shared prosperity Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism All that stuff that was "killed by the net"? The real culprit was hedge funds Cory Doctorow

panama papers It's the criminal economy, stupid! Boing Boing

Science Study: people who believe in innate intelligence overestimate their own Cory Doctorow

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

yanss Monkeys, money, and the primate origins of human irrationality David McRaney

Business How to Get a Figurine Produced in China and Not Lose Your Shirt Jared Zichek

Science Dinner's Revenge: mealworms that survive in the stomach, then eat their way out of predators Mary Roach

maker XOXO: Maker Love, Not Thwart Glenn Fleishman