gin and tonic Gin and tonic improved Rob Beschizza

Musical instruments Teenage Engineering pocket synthesizers are fun music makers Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Which coding language should you learn first? How about…all of them? Boing Boing's Shop

copyright A pair of musicians recorded every possible MIDI melody just to get around copyright law Thom Dunn

Science Anne Dagg, pioneering giraffe biologist and feminist critic of "evolutionary psychology" receives the Order of Canada Cory Doctorow

Dungeons & Dragons What's new in tabletop gaming (Halloween edition) Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants On Fire: Naomi Klein's book is a time-series of the shift from climate denial to nihilism to Green New Deal hope Cory Doctorow

indy projects The Miskatonic Papers – an experiential letterpress-printed book inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's work Mark Frauenfelder

coca-cola Cook whips up a batch of 1886-recipe Coca-Cola Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants Snailiens and other delights from Ravendark Creations Cory Doctorow

tabloids Royal Scandals: Drugs, Divorce, and Free Booze for Life, in this week’s royally dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

vaccination Entitled anti-vaxxers weasel around California law to dangerously enroll their kids in school Jason Weisberger

gender The Girlfriend Zone: the inverse of "the friend zone" Cory Doctorow

picks Fendi accidentally made a 'vulva' scarf Rusty Blazenhoff

Science Comedy/documentary explains quantum computing for a "confused general audience" Cory Doctorow

schizophrenia 1961 psychiatric interview with a schizophrenic Mark Frauenfelder

new york Lawsuit filed over ginger ale allegedly containing no ginger Seamus Bellamy

Delightful Creatures Mosquito skin patches actually attract mosquitoes Mark Frauenfelder

neuroscience Lightning knocks out woman's brain implant David Pescovitz