law Farming while Black: farmers allegedly sold fake certified seed in an effort to bankrupt them Séamus Bellamy

DHS Are Palantir employees starting to realize they're the baddies? Séamus Bellamy

News Epstein met 4chan's founder the day before /pol/ launched Ellsworth Toohey

apps Retrospecs: system-accurate pixel art filter app for iOS Rob Beschizza

History From the Pig Town Boys to the Green Avenue Stompers: A 1954 map of New York City street gangs Ruben Bolling

superheroes Listen to NPR's new public domain superhero musical, Micro-Face Thom Dunn

ice cream "Everything Bagel"… ice cream Rusty Blazenhoff

tabloids Prince Harry a drug kingpin, Bill Clinton's latest sex scandal, and escaping Scientology, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

photography A modern mudlarker finds treasures washed up on the River Thames banks David Pescovitz

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

1960s The story of John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce David Pescovitz

Kids For sale: the toy blocks Einstein played with as a kid Cory Doctorow

Science The universe has no "up" David Pescovitz

News Halt and Catch Fire: The Most Relevant Show on Television is Set in the 80s Maureen Herman

cuisine The Rat King: On the Fascinations (and Revulsions) of Rattus Mark Dery