music Sing along to this peppy little ditty about the fundamentals of Alchemical processes Gareth Branwyn

dataviz This alchemist's guide to alcoholic beverages is clever and lovely Andrea James

Science 65 out of the top 100 most-cited scientific papers are behind a paywall, with a weighted average cost of $32.33/each Cory Doctorow

Business Algorithmic risk-assessment: hiding racism behind "empirical" black boxes Cory Doctorow

Science How pee brought us the modern world David Pescovitz

fantasy The fantastic fantasy miniatures game, Frostgrave, is currently free! Gareth Branwyn

Ewige Blumenkraft Trump appointed the author of "100 Secrets and Habits of the Illuminati for Life Success" to the Commission on Presidential Scholars Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants The world's largest occult library has a public online archive Cory Doctorow

publishing University of California system libraries break off negotiations with Elsevier, will no longer order their journals Cory Doctorow

Japan Ooey gooey DIY candies Thersa Matsuura

scholarship Prominent AI researchers call the entire field "alchemy" Cory Doctorow

books Occult manuscripts to be digitized and posted online Rob Beschizza

music Cover of "Video killed the radio star" created entirely with a tablet Rob Beschizza

crowdfunding The original legacy of Wendy and Richard Pini's ElfQuest Hannah Means-Shannon

music New line of beautiful and classic-looking microphone cables from Spencer Tweedy David Pescovitz

documentary New documentary is a magic portal into a weird and wonderful library Ferdinando Buscema