baltimore John Waters gets honorary degree from Baltimore university: "Remember when the scarecrow gets the brain in 'Wizard of Oz'?" Rusty Blazenhoff

racism Bomb threats at more than a dozen historically Black colleges on the first day of Black History Month David Pescovitz

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

sports Watch a 5'2" player dominate a college basketball game John Struan

security You have the right to remain encrypted Albert Fox Cahn & Ayyan Zubair

politics Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's 'Healthy Holly' book sales now under state investigation Xeni Jardin

security Former NSA contractor Harold Martin pleads guilty to 'willful retention of national defense information' Xeni Jardin

millennial moms University police warn students to be on the lookout for a helicopter mom Carla Sinclair

gender Teen Vogue explainer: what are "resistance, rebellion, and revolution?" Cory Doctorow

medicine Penis transplant successful Rob Beschizza

censorship Leaked Facebook docs: weird censorship standards that protect "white men but not black children" Cory Doctorow

picks NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin to face espionage charges over 50TB of "stolen code" Xeni Jardin

corruption UC Davis Chancellor spent $400K+ to scrub her online reputation after pepper-spray incident Cory Doctorow

Old school Menus of the 1850s and 1860s Cory Doctorow

books Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Between the World and Me" is the next book you should read Cory Doctorow

Baltimore activist 'kidnapped' on live TV is found in jail. Lawyer: He had "hands up the whole time." Xeni Jardin

Freddie Gray: "Not the first person to come out of a Baltimore police wagon with serious injuries" Xeni Jardin

Solitary Vices: Mikita Brottman on the Books in Her Life Mark Dery

Good to the Last Drop Dead: Caffeine and Marathons Jen A. Miller

Science Science and gun violence: why is the research so weak? Maggie Koerth