Carlos Aponte Google Doodle celebrates mambo legend Tito Puente in animation Rusty Blazenhoff

politics Jacqueline Kennedy Garden at White House destroyed to make space for $350m "Epstein Ballroom" Rob Beschizza

Footage debunks claim that Starbucks worker wrote "Loser" on Charlie Kirk order Rob Beschizza

slavery As Nottoway "Plantation & Resort" burns, it's a great time to remind you that plantation weddings are wrong, period Jennifer Sandlin

cats Meet Kilo, the tattooed Sphynx cat who was rescued after being seized in a prison raid Jennifer Sandlin

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

tech The reMarkable Tablet is moving to a subscription service model Séamus Bellamy

archaeology Archaeologists unearth 2000-year-old marble head of Augustus Caesar Jess Sabine

math Augmented reality math is amazing and delightful Jason Weisberger

apple Apple cleans up Siri's privacy problems, screwing over workers in the process Séamus Bellamy

Business GE dumps century-old railroad division on Wabtec, almost 2,000 factory workers strike Xeni Jardin

religion The Vatican dunks on the finance industry and its "amoral culture" Cory Doctorow

book reviews To Read Aloud is a portal straight to that Middle Earth where magic happens Ferdinando Buscema

happy mutants Steven Boyett on Fata Morgana, his new WWII/alt-history mashup novel Cory Doctorow

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

web theory To understand trumpism, study the self-professed "betas" of 4chan Cory Doctorow

video 40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists Andrea James

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