game theory How "God Makes God" is a 1993 CD-ROM about probability, game theory, genetic algorithms, and evolutionary strategies Mark Frauenfelder

probability My fascination with these confounding dice Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Brain-aching list of counterintuitive probability riddles Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Snakes and Ladders can be analyzed by converting it to a Markov Chain Cory Doctorow

Space Turns out Star Trek redshirts are not likeliest to die Andrea James

dice Nontransitive dice – how to win every time Mark Frauenfelder

Extraterrestrials Author Kevin Kelly's "12 assumptions for extraterrestrial life" Mark Frauenfelder

politics Warnock wins Georgia senate runoff Rob Beschizza

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

music Deck is a new musical project featuring one song for all 52 playing cards in a deck Thom Dunn

climate emergency Eno performing gorgeous, haunting "There Were Bells" from forthcoming album ForeverAndEverNoMore Gareth Branwyn

legal Anti-abortion groups used to think jury nullification was swell. But now jurors could use it to fight back against forced-birth laws Mark Frauenfelder

Weird In search of a human-sized salamander in California's Trinity Alps David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets Learning new things doesn't have to be a chore – Brilliant makes it fun Boing Boing's Shop

memes that never die This bit.ly-like website shortens links but there's a 50% chance of rickroll when someone clicks Annie Rauwerda

gentlemen who poach For the first time, tree DNA sends a man to prison Carla Sinclair