new york All aboard the Alabama shit train! Séamus Bellamy

atlanta braves Fan was about to "Beat the Freeze" when this happened Kevin Reome

scholarship Machine learning classifiers are up to 20% less accurate when labeling photos from homes in poor countries Cory Doctorow

happy mutants All Rights Reserved: a YA dystopia where every word is copyrighted Cory Doctorow

scholarship American inequality is unequally distributed, and got lumpier after the Great Recession Cory Doctorow

economics A handful of essential ideas from economics Cory Doctorow

The only technique to learn something new James Altucher

Caffeine can really mess with your head Murray Carpenter

happy mutants Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century Cory Doctorow

cuisine The Rat King: On the Fascinations (and Revulsions) of Rattus Mark Dery

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing

television Hannibal is the best buzzkill "Takiawase" [s2e4] Theresa DeLucci