History The wonderful You Must Remember This podcast returns to tell the secret history of Disney's most racist movie, Song of the South Cory Doctorow

Games Vintage Asteroids costume is surprisingly terrifying John Struan

Games 2,500 MS-DOS games enter the Internet Archive Rob Beschizza

History "Halloween in a Box" tells the story of plastic costumes of yore Rusty Blazenhoff

History A Tangled Weave: when Louis XIV made owning calico cotton a crime Michael Skeet

Gadgets Subtle problem with bayonet design Rob Beschizza

books Tolkien’s Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is probably a misogynist satire of women's rights campaigner Victoria Sackville-West Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Folio Society is releasing a gorgeous edition of Octavia Butler's "Kindred" Cory Doctorow

Science New timeline of dino extinction day, 66m years ago Rob Beschizza

History Paleocomputing watch: Tech magazines cover the BBS scene Cory Doctorow

Technology Trailer for new documentary series about Bill Gates David Pescovitz

History Old folks born in the 19th century say hello from 1934 Seamus Bellamy

History Time capsule from 1969 opened and (drumroll) nothing was inside! David Pescovitz

books Anthropodermic bibliopegy: the grotesque history of books bound in human skin Cory Doctorow

History Mystery deepens: dead of Skeleton Lake weren't killed by a hailstorm, say scientists Rob Beschizza

Technology The world's longest operating webcam is going offline David Pescovitz

happy mutants Stephen Wolfram recounts the entire history of mathematics in 90 minutes Cory Doctorow

History The interesting story behind Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" photo Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Baking bread from dormant, 4,500-year-old yeast extracted from Egyptian bread-making ceramics Cory Doctorow

History Medieval people bathed Cory Doctorow