art books Come for Syd Mead's Xmas card, stay for the great art books at Stuart Ng's store Bob Knetzger

Blade Runner From Blade Runner to baking: Syd Mead's amazing gingerbread creations Mark Frauenfelder

ca A good bookstore in Torrance, California Bob Knetzger

scotland 90-year-old Scotsman accidentally builds a Hobbit House Thom Dunn

white supremacy Archaeologists reveal the white supremacist nonsense behind Netflix's "Ancient Apocalypse" Jennifer Sandlin

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

History "Why I Hate My Uncle," by William Hitler (Look magazine, 1939) Mark Frauenfelder

ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz

noads The man who destroyed skepticism Mitch Horowitz

Tom The Dancing Bug Another free book for kids- The EMU Club Adventures: Ghostly Thief of Time Ruben Bolling

music Documentary about the 1980s SoCal underground art happenings with Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, etc. David Pescovitz

happy mutants 2019 Hugo Award finalists announced Cory Doctorow

Entertainment Can you guess the meaning of these Droodles? Mark Frauenfelder

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

Sex Emotional labor watch: "Closers" flirt on behalf of men who use Tinder Cory Doctorow

Institute for the Future What I learned after spending two days with futurists and positive psychologists Mark Frauenfelder

books Alien Invasion in My Backyard – From slobbery robots and aliens with briefcases to didgeridoo lessons Wink

corruption San Francisco Super Bowl: crooked accounting, mass surveillance and a screwjob for taxpayers & homeless people Cory Doctorow

Collecting Children's Books – A guide for the book collector, a nostalgic read for the rest of us Wink

philosophy Dungeons & Dragons & Philosophy Ethan Gilsdorf