neuroscience Your diet soda is gaslighting your brain Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets Why Super Nintendo consoles are getting faster as they get older Rob Beschizza

drugs Evidence of ancient speed freaks found in Pleistocene burial cave Allan Rose Hill

iceland Humans help baby puffins fly out to sea! Jennifer Sandlin

book reviews Opting out: the freeing philosophy of avoidance and refusal Roy Christopher

cannabis Why does weed give you the munchies? Now scientists know Mark Frauenfelder

movies 'The Marvels' bombs with worst MCU opening yet Rob Beschizza

Extraterrestrials Uri Geller explains how grey alien vaginas work Thom Dunn

Science Research is suggesting we don't just inherit genes from our parents: "experiences can lead to changes in gene expression" Ruben Bolling

animals Your dog may eat you when you die David Pescovitz

Food Collectives and non-profits feed the hungry. Some people want to make it illegal. Elías Villoro

education Free school lunches are not worth the cost, according to rich, out-of-touch pundit Ben Shapiro Mark Frauenfelder

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graphic novels "The Box" and "Flying Kites" shed light on incarceration in America Elías Villoro

neuroscience Woman loses ability to feel hunger after a stroke Clive Thompson

news briefs Scientists send 1000s of pairs of underwear to volunteers, who will bury them in their backyards Carla Sinclair

new york times The NY Times presents 74 of its "favorite facts" for 2020 Mark Frauenfelder

Business EBGAP: Error Between Google and Privacy Sean O'Brien

scholarship White Americans abandoned democracy and embraced authoritarianism when they realized brown people would soon outvote them Cory Doctorow

class war The world's richest 2000 billionaires could wipe out extreme poverty with one seventh of what they gained last year Cory Doctorow