Kids Picking up beer bottles with an excavator is harder than it sounds Andrea James

drugs Mexico City judge gives two people permission to enjoy recreational cocaine with impunity Mark Frauenfelder

EU’s Parliament signs off on disastrous internet law: what happens next? Danny O'Brien

eff More than 130 European businesses tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective Cory Doctorow

eu German data privacy commissioner says Article 13 inevitably leads to filters, which inevitably lead to internet "oligopoly" Cory Doctorow

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

robots What a 19th-century rebellion against automation can teach us about the coming war in the job market Mark Frauenfelder

Science The sophisticated, hidden ways that trees cooperate and protect each other Cory Doctorow

science fiction The Android’s Prehistoric Menagerie A Merc Rustad

interviews Wim Wenders: Looking back on the road ahead Aaron Stewart-Ahn

avalanche Giant rocks close highway in Zion National Park Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets The Headset Revolution will be a blizzard of conflicting realities—if it happens, that is Jason Louv

Excerpts King of the Weeds: the final Mike Hammer novel Mickey Spillane