usausausa $300,000,000,000+: 2017's American "natural disaster" bill was by far the highest in history Cory Doctorow
health An orifice-by-orifice census of the objects US emergency room doctors removed from their patients in 2017 Cory Doctorow
Funny Close out a thoroughly unfunny 2017 with a hilarious compendium of the year's best standup on Bullseye Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky's annual State of the World wrangle on The WELL Cory Doctorow
google Google's AI-enhanced search suggests users add glue to their pizza and eat one small rock a day Natalie Dressed
News Securus Technologies loves charging exorbitant fees for families to talk to incarcerated loved ones Yoy Luadha
News How American singer-songwriter and record producer Maggie Rogers detoxed from the addictive drug of fame Yoy Luadha
world records Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise turned 191 years old, and has set a record as the World's Oldest Living Land Animal Jennifer Sandlin
climate change Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme Thom Dunn
gadgets HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza
myth busting Gustavo Arellano: Donkey Shows are a "wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves" Jennifer Sandlin
