Nintendo This video of Walter White in Mario Kart has no right to be this good Devin Nealy

cats Scientists trap Schrödinger's Cat in quantum superposition Thom Dunn

twitter Mastodon users embrace columnist's funny error about a fictitious "John Mastodon" Mark Frauenfelder

television An ode to the wives of television anti-heroes Devin Nealy

nazis More than one ton of Nazi uranium is still missing Thom Dunn

art Neatly sliced Leicas Rob Beschizza

AI Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn

quantum physics A video that explains the Heisenberg uncertainty principle Mark Frauenfelder

novels What happens when everything is available anywhere? Tal M Klein

elon musk Elon Musk gave assistant 2-week test when she asked for raise, and she failed Carla Sinclair

alternate history Making a better World War II Gregory Benford

cool tools Interview with Nick Bilton, author of new book about The Silk Road, American Kingpin Mark Frauenfelder

diversity Project Include cuts off Y Combinator because Peter Thiel is a part-time investor there Cory Doctorow

politics Billionaire Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel will be a California Trump delegate Cory Doctorow

picks What is the celebrity uncertainty principle? Peter Sheridan

Science Ant-Man, the Physics of Shrinking, and the Higgs Boson Jim Kakalios

Science What came before the big bang? Paul Davies