leisure If you like jigsaw puzzles and Baby Yoda – this is for you Mark Frauenfelder

leisure How to have a great weekend by engaging in "serious leisure" Mark Frauenfelder

photography Harry Israelson's delightful pics from a SoCal Ren Faire Andrea James

Gadgets The Trainz Railroad Simulator will make you feel like a master of the rails Boing Boing's Shop

close calls Bison scares the heck out of a reporter Carla Sinclair

uk Coronavirus: UK will pay 80% of lost wages for those laid off due to COVID-19 outbreak Xeni Jardin

News Coronavirus in Ireland: Leo Varadkar’s St Patrick’s Day broadcast (video, full text) Xeni Jardin

politics As coronavirus spreads, Melania Trump defends new White House tennis pavilion Xeni Jardin

motors How a 'Jake Brake' works Jason Weisberger

aviation The case for replacing air travel with high-speed sleeper trains Cory Doctorow

racism White woman interrupted a Broadway talkback to call the playwright "racist against white people." Thom Dunn

Neural net-generated prompts for Inktober John Struan

Japan Tokyo Listening – an interview with author Lorraine Plourde Roger Park

wearables Testing an electronic shock bracelet to cut back on social media David Pescovitz

books Print book reading is surging, just not in research libraries Cory Doctorow

happy mutants To do in Toronto: the Retro Futures exhibit at Metro Reference Library Cory Doctorow

cinema The Beach Bum should start a cult — and not just the midnight movie kind Natalie Dressed

machine work Nasty old coffee grinder restored Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Artists against Article 13: when Big Tech and Big Content make a meal of creators, it doesn't matter who gets the bigger piece Cory Doctorow