astronomy A nice asteroid, 69 alligators long, passed by the Earth this week Thom Dunn

meteors Texas struck by meteor the size of a thousand-pound corgi Thom Dunn

NASA Just how big were the rocks we saw on Dimorphos seconds before impact? Gareth Branwyn

asteroids Half-giraffe-sized asteroid hits Earth, according to the Daily Mail Thom Dunn

scale comparisons Exploring the universe through a piece of A4 paper Gareth Branwyn

scale comparisons Comparing the sizes of fictional buildings from books, movies, TV, and video games Gareth Branwyn

Space Pluto and other known "not-planets" in our solar system mapped in scale image montage Xeni Jardin

books Read an exclusive excerpt from "An Internet In Your Head: A New Paradigm For How The Brain Works " Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Using cotton-candy machines to produce N95-quality mask-filter material Clive Thompson

books John Perry Barlow's memoir, finished weeks before his death, is out Cory Doctorow

piketty Modern Monetary Theory: the economic basis for expanded social spending and greater shared prosperity Cory Doctorow

Kids Boston school district switches to a more accurate world map, blows kids' minds Cory Doctorow

Space Visualizing the vast distances of space with a 1-pixel moon in a side-scrolling solar-system Cory Doctorow

star trek Star Trek's USS Enterprise restored and back on display at the Smithsonian Jason Weisberger

Science Why all scientific diet research turns out to be bullshit Cory Doctorow

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

offworld You'll want to poke this doomsday device Leigh Alexander

Entertainment Game Of Thrones: "The Watchers On The Wall" [s4e9] K.M. McFarland

movies Interview with Jim Mickle, director of "We Are What We Are," a horror film in the guise of a serious drama Ethan Gilsdorf