photography Gorgeous photos show blue colored ice stacks on Great Lakes in Mackinaw City, MI Xeni Jardin

antifa A Civil War reenactor tried to frame Antifa by fabricating threats against his own Civil War reenactments Thom Dunn

biology Interactive online tour of Antarctica's microworld from science hacker Ariel Waldman David Pescovitz

accidents Watch this truck fall through an icy lake and completely vanish David Pescovitz

videos "OK Boomer" comes to the NZ Parliament and makes all the right people angry Cory Doctorow

Environment The largest source of plastic in our fresh water is laundry lint David Pescovitz

canada Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow

racism City council candidate openly endorses racism Jason Weisberger

sports Organizers unprepared as woman wins ultra marathon outright Rob Beschizza

useful stuff What Lenore Edman of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories keeps in her bag Mark Frauenfelder

disneyland Children's Fairyland, the mid-century storybook theme park that inspired Walt Disney and where Frank Oz got his start Rusty Blazenhoff

mistakes What to do about Japanese knotweed? Rob Beschizza

censorship Sponsor of the "Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act" sues Twitter cow-account for $250 million Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Those rectangular foam snow brooms are trash Rob Beschizza

gop As Wisconsin's corporate welfare to Foxconn keeps rising, the number of jobs to be created keeps falling Cory Doctorow

bears Yellowstone grizzly bear hunt cancelled thanks to court ruling Seamus Bellamy

Kids Cool satellite view of dozens of oxbow lakes formed when a river changed course Andrea James

lds Funeral potatoes are not as grim as they sound Rusty Blazenhoff

art Technology is landscape in Yuri Shwedoff's art Rob Beschizza

law Journalist charged with Criminal Harassment for attempting to set up an interview Seamus Bellamy