artificial hair Clip-on man bun Rob Beschizza

COVID-19 Renowned mathematician and "Game of Life" inventor, John Conway, died this week of COVID-19 Gareth Branwyn

neuroscience Debunking the "Bereitschaftspotential", the brain signal that seemed to kill off free will Clive Thompson

LGBTQ Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans Cory Doctorow

videos Bruce Sterling on the next 50 years of climate-wracked maker architecture Cory Doctorow

corruption California State lawmaker Miguel Santiago says he's a Democrat, but he's single-handedly killing state Net Neutrality Cory Doctorow

Ancestry.com Woman shocked when her DNA test reveals biological father isn't her father, but her parents' fertility doctor Carla Sinclair

bots On the psychological value of "griefbots" Clive Thompson

robotics Rodney Brooks on the present and future of robotics & AI Rob Reid

fake news Prince Harry’s love child, Trump’s revenge, and Teri Hatcher homeless, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Technology Watch these robots measure and saw wood Andrea James

AI Artificial intelligence brought the freaky visuals to this music video Rusty Blazenhoff

Business Chinese internet censors really enjoy the work Cory Doctorow

the future In the future you will own nothing and have access to everything Kevin Kelly

happy mutants White House contends with AI's big social challenges, July 7/NYC Cory Doctorow

books Reminder: Neal Stephenson predicted Donald Trump in 1994 Cory Doctorow

higher education Brigham Young professor told not to give fake urine to his students to drink Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Very sad news about science fiction titan David G Hartwell Cory Doctorow

Business Trump Casinos lost millions every single year that Donald Trump ran it (but he's still rich) Cory Doctorow

DIY What do you do when you've got a plumbing clog? Mark Frauenfelder