documentaries RIP Michael Apted, director of the decades-spanning documentary series Up Janelle Hessig
psychedelics Netflix's 4-part adaptation of Michael Pollan's book on psychedelics, "How to Change Your Mind" Mark Frauenfelder
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
happy mutants William Gibson interviewed: Archangel, the Jackpot, and the instantly commodifiable dreamtime of industrial societies Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Michael Lewis's "Flash Boys": lifting the rock on crooked high-speed trading Cory Doctorow