cancer Burning Man ticket program gives cancer patients or survivors a chance to go to the desert Rusty Blazenhoff

sports Owen Morse sets hang gliding world record for piloting 222.22 miles over California's Owens Valley Xeni Jardin

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

News Meet Rahul Dubey, 'absolute legend' who sheltered ~70 protestors inside his home for 8 hours overnight Xeni Jardin

mistakes British Nazi set self on fire trying to burn down synagogue Rob Beschizza

media Prince Charles’ gay scandal, Tom Cruise destroys Scientology, and Michael Jackson’s afterlife, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Fellowships to fund work on a "Human-Centric Internet" Cory Doctorow

burning man The BLM's Burning Man environmental impact statement is terrible, calls for drug searches, dumpsters, and a 19,000,000lb concrete wall Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How #Article13 is like the Inquisition: John Milton Against the EU #CopyrightDirective Ada Palmer

experience economies The College of Extraordinary Experiences transforms you in the most mind-blowing way Ferdinando Buscema

gender The Russian equivalent to Alexa is a "good girl" but not too friendly, and is totally OK with wife-beating Cory Doctorow

travel I owe Anthony Bourdain so much Seamus Bellamy

burning man Burning Man founder Larry Harvey in critical condition after 'massive stroke' Rusty Blazenhoff

racism Holocaust survivor's death in Paris being investigated as a hate crime Seamus Bellamy

Science The CDC is why you and your loved ones aren't dead. Trump just banned them from using the phrase "science-based." Cory Doctorow

web theory The grueling emotional labor of an open source maintainer Cory Doctorow

books Read: Strategic Dog Patterning, a story from "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers" Hugh AD Spencer

science fiction The Android’s Prehistoric Menagerie A Merc Rustad

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow