psychology How to enjoy life more by embracing unforbidden pleasures Ellsworth Toohey

Rosemary Leary describes her life as a psychedelic pioneer and her decades as a fugitive Mark Frauenfelder

coding Study finds brain-activity of people coding isn't quite like when they use language, or do math Clive Thompson

video games Catching up with Primordia developer Mark Yohalem Jeffery Klaehn

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

australia Michael Bublé performed a private concert of Christmas songs for a trio of gorillas Thom Dunn

language Codifying "Boomerspeak" and debating the ethics of poking fun at it Cory Doctorow

gaming Review: Phantom Doctrine lacks the fun of XCOM Séamus Bellamy

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Copyfight Copyright and the "male gaze": a feminist critique of copyright law Cory Doctorow

roleplaying games What's new in the world of tabletop gaming? (Early August Edition) Gareth Branwyn

Comics The first page of X-Men: Grand Design, with author and artist Ed Piskor's commentary Ed Piskor

uk One year 40% HIV infection dropoff in London attributed to grey-market generic pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs Cory Doctorow

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art The story of Traceroute, about a Leitnerd's quest Thomas Kaestle

deaths Antonin Scalia, 1936-2016 Rob Beschizza

politics Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical Cory Doctorow

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