tips Here are a couple of ways of starting a fire in the wilderness using found materials Mark Frauenfelder

police How every police officer becomes complicit in a terrible system Thom Dunn

coronavirus Can a fart give you coronavirus? Carla Sinclair

animals Three mountain lions killed after eating mystery human remains David Pescovitz

Sex Meet HBO's sex scene coach David Pescovitz

trump Trump Doral resort to host golf tourney run by strip club, dancers auctioned off as 'caddy girls' Xeni Jardin

toxic brands YouTube carves policy exception allowing "hurtful" homophobic slurs Rob Beschizza

youtube YouTube bans kids from live-streaming video without adult supervision Xeni Jardin

youtube YouTube pushes children's videos to pedophiles through content recommendation engine Xeni Jardin

politics Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer parent company of 'extortion and blackmail' over dick pics Xeni Jardin

holy shit Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer of attempting to blackmail him over sexts and photos Mark Frauenfelder

finance Here's how the Pentagon swindled Congress with $21 trillion worth of undocumented, untraceable, unaccounted for expenditures Cory Doctorow

crime Convicted rapist Brock Turner tries more legal weaseling Jason Weisberger

law Woman uses keys to fight off man who pulled off her head scarf and grabbed her Rob Beschizza

space exploration What Jack Kirby proposed for the plaques on the Pioneer space probes Gareth Branwyn

Business The fashion boutiques that line the "Champs-Élysées" of a massive Syrian refugee camp are a fascinating lens on the crisis Cory Doctorow

united airlines Puppy dies on flight after United Airlines forces owner to stuff it in overhead bin Rob Beschizza

happy mutants JUMPSUIT: counterfashion ungendered monogarments Cory Doctorow

NSFW UK cops' porn-spotting software can't tell the difference between sand and skin Rob Beschizza

books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow