movies On this day in 1943, the Office of War Information won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Elías Villoro
mdma The time a US defense contractor turned on Soviet military scientists to MDMA to lubricate the nuclear peace process David Pescovitz
military Brain-frying energy weapons actually do exist, say scientists who would know David Pescovitz
weapons Scientific report: mystery microwave beam weapon used on diplomats in Cuba and elsewhere David Pescovitz
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
animals Some idiot painted graffiti on a Russian polar bear and now the animal likely won't survive David Pescovitz
china Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the "no mercy" plan for Muslims in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump's new climate czar has repeatedly and unrepentantly compared efforts to reduce CO2 to Hitler's slaughter of 6,000,000 Jews Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The People's Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Hannu Rajaniemi's Summerland: a midcentury spy thriller, with the afterlife Cory Doctorow
russia Some free short stories from Soviet-era science fiction author Anatoly Dneprov Jason Weisberger