death No more funeral home markups — you can now buy caskets direct for your corpse! Thom Dunn

funerals You can now legally compost dead bodies in Washington state Thom Dunn

skulls The U.S. has a lot of laws around the possession and ownership of human skulls Thom Dunn

carceral state The Corrections Project documentary series tackles America's carceral state Elías Villoro

Copyfight Brexit means the UK will shelve the EU Copyright Directive (for now) Cory Doctorow

health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies Cory Doctorow

climate change What happens when climate change ravages graveyards? Thom Dunn

books The Myth of Capitalism: an ardent capitalist decries monopoly Cory Doctorow

class war Puerto Rico is a tax-haven for rich mainlanders and is also too broke to survive hurricanes: are these facts possibly related, somehow? Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Europe just voted to wreck the internet, spying on everything and censoring vast swathes of our communications Cory Doctorow

addiction Public ignorance about "drunk/drugged up losers" is expensive and deadly Maureen Herman

Robot priests Meet Pepper, Japan's robot priest that can now conduct funerals Carla Sinclair

happy mutants Parasitic Souls: what if there was a tech bubble, but for magic? Kater Cheek

politics Watch Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Tim Kaine, Mike Bloomberg speeches at 2016 DNC (Video) Xeni Jardin

funerals Have your body turned into effluent and just poured down the drain when you die Rob Beschizza

copyright Stop the Music Charles Duan

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