happy mutants The automated, invisible revert-wars of Wikipedia's bot ecosystem Cory Doctorow

healthcare The hidden truth about Medicaid: 64% of recipients are employed workers Maureen Herman

neuroscience Scientists discover how to hack the vagus nerve to fight autoimmune diseases Ellsworth Toohey

politics Costco claps back at "reprehensible radical right" organization's anti-DEI demand Jennifer Sandlin

gadgets Google "cracks" quantum computing challenge Rob Beschizza

travel Saturn simulation takes you on a journey to the gas giant's core Popkin

History Calculating Empires: an huge online chart of tech history Rob Beschizza

politics Help stop KOSA, the internet censorship bill that will let politicians shut down sex ed, LGBTQ+ and womens' health sites Rob Beschizza

Entertainment The riveting 2024 Snail Racing World Championships Gail Sherman

Race to Survive contestants Reality TV contestant kills and eats protected New Zealand bird — claiming he was "desperate and hungry" (video) Carla Sinclair

joy division Fascinating video essay on the origins and philosophy of post-punk Natalie Dressed

NASA's race to synchronize Earth and Moon clocks and why it matters Mark Frauenfelder

Science California's amazing geographic oddities B.R. O'Deal

yosemite Ahead of a huge storm, Yosemite Park Service tells tourists: GTFO Jason Weisberger

mental health Anti-masturbation groups are warm, damp place for extremist beliefs to fester Jason Weisberger

delightful creatures Two racing dogs slip and slide on ice like a scene straight out of a cartoon (video) Carla Sinclair

bernie sanders Long COVID expert at US Senate hearing: "the burden of disease and disability from long COVID . . . is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease" Jennifer Sandlin

tabloids Queen Camilla's divorce ultimatum and the Clintons betray Joe Biden, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

conspiracy theories "Deep State Weather Engineering" conspiracy theories run rampant in wake of Maui fires Jennifer Sandlin

abortion Abortion protections for workers are not discriminatory against men, rules Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Thom Dunn