Food Bake: a "She Persisted" energy bar to bring to the protests Cory Doctorow

bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder

Science Science says puppies are bad for your mental health Gail Sherman

health Wall Street Journal reporter eats poison oak leaves to become immune — risking dreaded itchy butt Mark Frauenfelder

Comic Books Rediscovering Tim Sale's legacy in a new color edition of "BILLI 99" Gareth Branwyn

politics Biden rejects Doocy's cherry-picking of polls Jason Weisberger

climate change Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme Thom Dunn

public health Intrusive creepy anti-vaxxer harasses pregnant woman at Walgreens Mark Frauenfelder

drugs QAnon might be surprised to know that Lee Harvey Oswald took LSD as a Marine Elías Villoro

politics Politicians keep writing children's books. Most are quite bad. Annie Rauwerda

water is for fighting A close look at declining water reserves in the west Jason Weisberger

racism The Silent Suffering of the Asian-American Maddie Lee

Barbizon Hotel Secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel Miss Cellania

bad customer service Ford Bronco dealership accidentally sells a demo car to a man, then insists he give it back Carla Sinclair

politics Judiciary Committee report on impeachment argues for charging Trump with 'willful incitement of insurrection' [READ IT] Xeni Jardin

linguistics Our centuries-old use of "they" as a singular pronoun Clive Thompson

late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow

animals Cat and rhino are best friends Xeni Jardin

google Google staff stage worldwide walkout Rob Beschizza

politics U.S. got $100 million from Saudi Arabia on the same day Pompeo was in Riyadh Xeni Jardin