magic How to make someone think you can read their mind David Pescovitz

magic Mentalist Max Maven dies at 72 Ferdinando Buscema

magic "Pick a number and I'll guess it": the math behind the magic David Pescovitz

magic tricks Brian Brushwood's mind control magic trick Mark Frauenfelder

Environment Eco-warrior chefs flee Sweden, leave 158 barrels of sh*t as parting gift Ellsworth Toohey

The secret of consciousness may be found in the strange electric fields inside our skulls Allan Rose Hill

gadgets Mobile Phone Museum has 2800 handsets, many of them quite bizarre Rob Beschizza

religion Brain damage linked to religious fundamentalism, Harvard study finds Ellsworth Toohey

donald trump Trump ditches Bible for a copy of Playboy issue at LIV golf event Mark Frauenfelder

politics Media Matters publishes useful guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda that "represents a threat to democracy, civil rights, the climate, and more" Jennifer Sandlin

capitalist killjoy Stanley water bottle madness grips America Jennifer Sandlin

1970s "Everything Has A History" explores Parker Brothers' 1971 toy, the "Johnny Horizon Environmental Test Kit" Jennifer Sandlin

Comic Books "The Super Hero's Journey" is a gorgeous graphic celebration of Marvel Comics Thom Dunn

trump The cult members of Trump-landia Jason Weisberger

climate change The prosecution of Daniel McGowan and the Earth Liberation Front. Elías Villoro

fearmongering The bogus Satanic Panic is returning. Here's a look at the original purveyors of myth — Chick Tracts Jennifer Sandlin

Science Evolution finally now accepted by majority of Americans, 150 years after Darwin David Pescovitz

Watch this interview about the art of the anarchist punk band, Crass Popkin

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

politics Norma "Roe v. Wade" McCorvey was paid by conservatives to pretend to turn against abortion Rob Beschizza