music The Music of the Beatles as Channeled in 1958 by the Echo Lake Home for the Potentially Clairvoyant is a fascinating experiment Thom Dunn

Capitol insurrection An actual Army PsyOps officer led a group of 100 people to the "Stop The Steal" rally in Washington Thom Dunn

psychological warfare US consulate worker in China injured by mysterious sonic attack Mark Frauenfelder

surveillance Governments see social media as "a new front in warfare" Andrea James

russia Disgraced Michael Flynn hits QAnon conspiracist with $150,000 lawsuit Mark Frauenfelder

DRONES Arms manufacturer sponsors new opera about the horrors of drone warfare at the Kennedy Center Thom Dunn

books The Metamodernism of Hanzi Freinacht Ferdinando Buscema

Those RenFaire kids Almost 90 minutes of Fantasy/RPG bards and tavern music from video games Jason Weisberger

Audio New "soundbeaming" technology claims it can broadcast music to your brain without headphones Thom Dunn

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

politics Disinformation 2020: FBI warns of ongoing Russian 'information warfare' Xeni Jardin

Business Bavarian intelligence agency says Scientologists secretly took over one of the world's top art galleries Cory Doctorow

trump Why Trump brings clapping, laughing sycophants to his press events and appearances Rob Beschizza

History Iron age sling bullets seem designed to make terrifying whistling noise Rob Beschizza

sports Where Muhammad Ali's public persona came from Kembrew McLeod

offworld War without tears Maxwell Neely-Cohen

religion The divine witches of cyberspace Leigh Alexander

Culture Prototype dissidents: Timothy Leary and Václav Havel at the dawn of the internet age Lisa Rein and Michael Horowitz