politics Las Vegas mayor offers city as 'control group' to see how many die of COVID-19 without social distancing Xeni Jardin

music Courtney Love sings the scrapped lyrics to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" David Pescovitz

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music Watch Native American rock band Redbone perform "Come out and get your love" (1974) Elías Villoro

noads The man who destroyed skepticism Mitch Horowitz

noads Channeling Timothy Leary on the Centennial of his Birth, October 22, 2020 Boing Boing

tabloids Do the tabloids deserve a government bailout? This week's dubious offerings make a poor case for their survival. Peter Sheridan

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

music Hear all 77 songs Weird Al covered on tour Rusty Blazenhoff

books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura

security How landscape architects fight the last war while designing against mass shootings Cory Doctorow

police America's top cop-killing domestic terror threat is far-right "sovereign citizens" and militias Cory Doctorow

Trivia Hooray! I'm not the stupidest person at the 2015 Trivia Championships of North America Jackie Fuchs

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