Space NASA renames DC headquarters after Mary W. Jackson Rob Beschizza

NASA NASA legend Katherine Johnson turns 100 years old this week Seamus Bellamy

statues There are 43 giant stone Presidential heads crumbling in a field in Virginia Thom Dunn

Killers hunt Prince Andrew, Brad Pitt’s secret daughter, and George Clooney’s plastic surgery shocker, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Comics MAD Magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 Janelle Hessig

NASA Katherine Johnson, pioneering NASA mathematician portrayed in "Hidden Figures," RIP David Pescovitz

News Leaked Twitter demo shows red banners to indicate lies and disinformation under tweets Xeni Jardin

books "The Art of Computer Designing": stark, beautiful black-and-white images from 1993 Cory Doctorow

scholarship Report from the Fed reveals that "economic growth" is a highly localized phenomena, masking widespread financial desperation Cory Doctorow

fake news Glenn Miller’s death plane, Robert Durst’s cannibal appetites, and exploding heads in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Copyfight Copyright and the "male gaze": a feminist critique of copyright law Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

twitter Alt-right troll accounts have been semi-hidden from Twitter search results Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants A vital guide to the Canadian encryption debate Cory Doctorow

oblique strategies 3-year-old scrawls on furniture cushions, mom embroiders them Mark Frauenfelder

DRONES Fancy new geoglyphs discovered in Peru Seamus Bellamy

security Wired releases a surveillance self-defense guide Cory Doctorow

corporatism Excellent, plain-language explainer on corporate and 1 percenter tax evasion, with a simple solution Cory Doctorow

NASA In honor of Hidden Figures, meet the contemporary black women contributing to NASA’s success Caroline Siede

happy mutants Revealing the cover and first excerpt of Autonomous, Annalee Newitz's long-awaited debut novel Cory Doctorow