uk No Deal Brexit will lead to "putrefying stockpiles of rubbish" and "slurry" Cory Doctorow

Weird Caracas has a mysterious black highway goo that has killed 1,800 people Ellsworth Toohey

Civil War soldiers called the first instant coffee "axle grease" Ellsworth Toohey

Science Golden oyster mushroom is invading North American forests Ellsworth Toohey

military America cuts security aid to countries bordering Russia Séamus Bellamy

music Spotify using AI to make new music from dead artists without permission Séamus Bellamy

U.S. military 3 of the 4 missing U.S. soldiers found dead in Lithuania — search continues Carla Sinclair

quicksand Quicksand is back and this woman almost succumbed to it Allan Rose Hill

art "Monumental Head" installed at Artemizia's sculpture garden in Bisbee, Arizona Jennifer Sandlin

fast food Enjoy this video of hotdogs being made from sludge Mark Frauenfelder

climate change The first large-scale carbon capture facility is now online. But will it make a difference? Thom Dunn

caitlin Reilly Watch Caitlin Reilly's hilarious take on "the climactic scene in every award-winning drama" Mark Frauenfelder

Old school On "Fraidycat", and the pleasures of non-algorithmic tools for following stuff online Clive Thompson

music Watch: Perfect impression of the archetypal social media "singer" with that strange, slurry, wannabe pop star voice David Pescovitz

AI Google AI helps you write a poem in the style of famous poets of the past Clive Thompson

politics Trump praises 'America's frownders' Xeni Jardin

elections A vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points mixed with floods of algorithmically generated "news" Cory Doctorow

tea How much more black can Barry's Gold Blend be? Jason Weisberger

Science Engineers developed a mathematical model of Ooblek David Pescovitz

view source The "One HTML Page Challenge", a great example of view-source culture Clive Thompson