cover songs Blue Man Group discovers My Chemical Romance Thom Dunn

music Popular music stats: chords, two-hit wonders, and more Rob Beschizza

tabloids JFK's second gunman, and alien life on Earth, exposed in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

air rage Plane passenger urinates on his seat, then tries to urinate on a passenger Mark Frauenfelder

bad decisions How a CEO's three lame jokes cost his company $4 billion Mark Frauenfelder

magic Watch Grant Morrison perform a ritual to summon John Lennon's ghost, with help from Gerard Way Thom Dunn

books Someone wrote an existential horror comedy set entirely in Slack and it's great Thom Dunn

tabloids Duchess Kate's pregnancy and World War III in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids Bill & Hillary Clinton seduced by Ghislaine Maxwell, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

History History professor and high school textbook author pushing to capitalize the "b" in "Black," and why that matters David Pescovitz

greenland Watch: Nothing like a good ol' disaster movie to distract us from our chaos Carla Sinclair

Entertainment Gil Gerard joins another TV show about an astronaut who returns home centuries late Jason Weisberger

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

music Bryan Adams to Canadian parliament: extending the term of copyright enriches labels and other intermediaries, not artists Cory Doctorow

politics Mormon (LDS) church backs Utah medical marijuana legalization deal, even if November ballot initiative fails Xeni Jardin

Copyfight To fix Canadian copyright, let creators claim their rights back after 25 years Cory Doctorow

computer science A hard look at the wastefulness of "proof of work," the idea at the core of the blockchain Cory Doctorow

technophobia France imposes "total ban" on mobile phones in schools Mark Frauenfelder

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