music 19-year-old college student absolutely nails "Name" when invited onstage to play guitar with the Goo Goo Dolls Jennifer Sandlin
Tom The Dancing Bug Tom the Dancing Bug: A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at a criminal presidency Ruben Bolling
New documentary about John C. Lilly, the scientist who used LSD to communicate with dolphins and invented the sensory deprivation tank (video) Allan Rose Hill
health Mystery brain disease affecting hundreds in Canada: memory loss, seizures, and behavioral changes Mark Frauenfelder
intelligence community LOL RIP CIA: Trump's about to turn America's spooks into his personal goon squad Ellsworth Toohey
gadgets This old dictation gadget was terrible at recording voices. Living ones, that is. Rob Beschizza
Technology Video Game History Foundation to release scans of 1,500 vintage gaming magazines Ellsworth Toohey