documentaries RIP Michael Apted, director of the decades-spanning documentary series Up Janelle Hessig

wonderful creatures The best breaking news I've heard lately: Seal goes with flow! Jennifer Sandlin

Netflix New Scott Pilgrim anime coming to Netflix, with the voice cast from the movie Thom Dunn

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz

psychedelics Netflix's 4-part adaptation of Michael Pollan's book on psychedelics, "How to Change Your Mind" Mark Frauenfelder

batman See Michael Keaton's Bat-cowl in the first teaser for the new FLASH movie Thom Dunn

movies MGM buys movie rights to Ben Mezrich's book proposal about r/wallstreetbets David Pescovitz

international space station Studying wine that was aged for a year on the space station Clive Thompson

music Emerson, Lake & Palmer's prog rock epic, "Karn Evil 9," to be made into a film with Daniel Wilson penning the screenplay Gareth Branwyn

documentary "63 Up": doc series following the lives of Brits every seven years since they were 7, returns Rusty Blazenhoff

Technology Plants that glow could illuminate tomorrow's buildings David Pescovitz

web theory Authoritarians used to be scared of social media, now they rule it Cory Doctorow

happy mutants William Gibson interviewed: Archangel, the Jackpot, and the instantly commodifiable dreamtime of industrial societies Cory Doctorow

happy mutants It's about Time: Reading Steampunk's Rise and Roots Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall

design Product design for High Rise, 1970s dystopian movie Mark Frauenfelder

surveillance Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century Cory Doctorow

facebook Escaping the new media cargo cult David Moldawer

books The 10 best adventure novels from 1965 Joshua Glenn

cuisine The Rat King: On the Fascinations (and Revulsions) of Rattus Mark Dery