london Barbie movie caused global pink paint shortage Mark Frauenfelder

petard Developer who tore down historic San Francisco house ordered to build an exact replica Cory Doctorow

Science Swearing helps with pain — but only if you don't do it all the time Ellsworth Toohey

canada The number of countries issuing travel warnings about the U.S. is growing Séamus Bellamy

History Famed American war criminal Henry Kissinger dies Rob Beschizza

ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz

architecture Modernist man: Jock Peters may be the most influential architect you've never heard of Mark Frauenfelder

Business Countries with higher levels of unionization have lower per-capita carbon footprints Cory Doctorow

normalizing racism Ex-GOP staffer who racially assaulted black woman and wrote for white supremacist site VDare now writes for WSJ, Forbes Xeni Jardin

class war Trump gave AT&T a $20B tax break and killed Net Neutrality, now they're prepping mass layoffs Cory Doctorow

corruption Cheap dates: here's how much it cost the telcoms sector to buy Congress and murder Net Neutrality Cory Doctorow

net neutrality Ajit Pai says the FTC is will guard against ISPs abusing a world without Net Neutrality, but the FTC had no authority to act in history's most prominent telcoms abuses Cory Doctorow

youtube Wall Street and Trump are about to kill the CFPB, the only government agency that effectively polices bank scams, crimes and frauds Cory Doctorow

Why mutating symbiotic thought germs love the web Mark Frauenfelder

AI Alt-Right trolls argue for hours with Twitter bot Rob Beschizza

offworld Video games without people of color are not 'neutral' Sidney Fussell

philosophy Dungeons & Dragons & Philosophy Ethan Gilsdorf

books MK Wren's Shadow of the Swan Cory Doctorow