escaping Earrings with hidden handcuff shim Mark Frauenfelder

videogames COPS, the Atari arcade videogame from 1994 based on the now-cancelled "reality" TV show David Pescovitz

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

graphic novels Casting announced for the upcoming Audible adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" Thom Dunn

tabloids Royals Clash, Clooneys divorce, and Jacko’s rotten feet in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

coronavirus How domesticated tarantulas are dealing with COVID-19 Thom Dunn

Weird Russia: 2 elephants escape from circus Xeni Jardin

music Sonant makes generative music you can leave on Rob Beschizza

Japan "Animals" escaping from Japanese zoos part of unintentionally funny drills Rusty Blazenhoff

climate change This penguin escaping from a cracking glacier is an edge-of-your-seat thriller Thom Dunn

evangelicals A harrowing look inside the apocalyptic Evangelical cult around Donald Trump Thom Dunn

thanksgiving Escape your racist relatives with this aptly-named Thanksgiving cocktail Rusty Blazenhoff

racism Hollywood exec wanted to cast Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman Rob Beschizza

Games Review / Manifold Garden Rob Beschizza

corruption Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz calls neoliberalism "a failed ideology" and sketches out a "progressive capitalism" to replace it Cory Doctorow

Funny Bulldogs cleverly try to 'play dead' to avoid being scolded Xeni Jardin

law EFF's roadmap for a 21st Century antitrust doctrine Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Insider sources say Apple is shutting its east Texas stores to escape the jurisdiction of America's worst patent court Cory Doctorow

Blue collar work Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe offers scholarships to aspiring trade workers Rusty Blazenhoff

crime Which prison will house 'El Chapo'? Probably this Colorado 'supermax' Xeni Jardin