Soviet Union A too-typical tragedy of science in the Soviet Union Miss Cellania

Space This SUV is headed to the lunar surface to act like "UPS for the moon" David Pescovitz

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

Soviet Union The great African American escape to Soviet Russia Miss Cellania

mysteries Dyatlov Pass incident likely an avalanche after all Rob Beschizza

weapons Scientific report: mystery microwave beam weapon used on diplomats in Cuba and elsewhere David Pescovitz

noads The man who destroyed skepticism Mitch Horowitz

books Dystopian masterpieces: The Strugatski brothers' "Snail On The Slope" Jason Weisberger

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

Kids These domesticated foxes came from a famous Russian experiment Andrea James

disillusionment Post-internet lament Jasmina Tesanovic

russia 'The Unbitten Elbow' by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Jason Weisberger

russia Some free short stories from Soviet-era science fiction author Anatoly Dneprov Jason Weisberger