homelessness New Orleans reduced homelessness by 90% (and saved a fortune) by giving homeless people homes Cory Doctorow

Delightful Creatures The soothing survival sleeping sounds of sneezing seal's non-stick lungs Elías Villoro

Heavy Metal 'Walking on Sunshine,' but heavy metal Rusty Blazenhoff

Cassandra Sentinel intelligence, explained Jennifer Sandlin

florida Child rapist admits trying to fake own death to avoid punishment Rob Beschizza

tabloids Kamala Backstabs Biden in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tabloids America in chaos in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

weather Hurricane Ida lays waste to New Orleans and Louisiana, weakens into Mississippi Rob Beschizza

civil forfeiture The DEA seized an innocent man's life savings without charging him with a crime Mark Frauenfelder

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

politics Donald Trump donated twice to Kamala Harris campaign, so did Ivanka Xeni Jardin

Science We are all part of the biggest psychological experiment in history David Pescovitz

cnn Anderson Cooper isn't a fan of Rod Blagojevich Gina Loukareas

police A new study further confirms that most crime TV shows are good PR for cops Thom Dunn

education After Katrina, neoliberals replaced New Orleans' schools with charters, which are now failing Cory Doctorow

Weird Human composting is now legal in Washington, and offered by a Seattle business Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow