podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn
Comic Books Talking Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics with Visionary Comic Book Creator Tom Scioli Jeffery Klaehn
Gadgets Your barista may be at home, but that doesn’t mean your coffee game should suffer Boing Boing's Shop
tabloids Coronavirus cured (again), Britain’s Royals clash (again) and the woman who pees alcohol (unprecedented) in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
security CIA secretly owned world's top encryption supplier, read enemy and ally messages for decades Xeni Jardin
tabloids LBJ killed JFK, the Queen’s secret lover & Julia Roberts’ divorce, in this week’s highly dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
climate change There's 22 million gallons of nuclear waste under a concrete dome on a Pacific Island, and it's sinking Thom Dunn
your ig nobel is in the mail Knives made of human feces don't actually work, experiment finds Clive Thompson
fake news The 'most powerful man in politics,' demonized in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
finance Here's how the Pentagon swindled Congress with $21 trillion worth of undocumented, untraceable, unaccounted for expenditures Cory Doctorow
picks What 'Independence Day' Is Like In Transnistria, An Unrecognized Country Inside Moldova Katherine Leipper