death Start-up turns cremains into stones to help people connect with their departed loved ones Rusty Blazenhoff

mass shootings Sandy Hook memorial opens Rob Beschizza

museums The reason Arnold Schwarzenegger quoted The Terminator in the Auschwitz concentration camp museum's guestbook David Pescovitz

memorials A beautiful memorial to 4989 Irish lost to COVID-19 Jason Weisberger

happy mutants The Internet Archive is hosting a symposium on John Perry Barlow on April 7 (and I'm emceeing) Cory Doctorow

picks Arlington National Cemetery is the only monument we need to Robert E. Lee Jason Weisberger

poker Dead poker player sits down for his last game Mark Frauenfelder

toilets Diamond ring flushed down toilet was found 13 years later at a wastewater plant David Pescovitz

christian nationalism Gov. Huckabee Sanders allows forced birth monument to stand on Arkansas' Capitol grounds Carla Sinclair

Alex Lubin's book, "Never-Ending War on Terror", explains it Elías Villoro

russia Russian "influencers" recite identical denunciations of Ukraine Rob Beschizza

maps Google Maps' Nazi problem Mike Shaughnessy

statues The last time a Frederick Douglass statue was vandalized in Rochester, it was because of drunk college kids Thom Dunn

News DHS announces 'Task Force to Protect American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues' Xeni Jardin

coronavirus China mourns Li Wenliang, the Wuhan whistleblower doctor who warned of coronavirus outbreak Xeni Jardin

CIA RIP, George HW Bush: a mass-murderer and war-criminal Cory Doctorow