lenin Headless Lenin statue remade into writhing rose-headed hydra Rob Beschizza

mistakes were made Lenin statue loses head in mishap Mark Frauenfelder

Fly through an average mouse brain David Pescovitz

Science Watch crane collapse onto boat, causing a terrible oil spill in the Galapagos Islands David Pescovitz

AI Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn

china How China ingests and adapts western culture Cory Doctorow

law Julian Assange dragged from Ecuador's embassy in London and arrested Rob Beschizza

uk Local council seeks additional funds for Thatcher statue to pay for a tall anti-vandal plinth Cory Doctorow

politics Manafort tried to broker deal to get Julian Assange to U.S. Xeni Jardin

corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow

picks What 'Independence Day' Is Like In Transnistria, An Unrecognized Country Inside Moldova Katherine Leipper

videos Bruce Sterling on the next 50 years of climate-wracked maker architecture Cory Doctorow

class war Chinese students, made to study Communism, are rising up for workers' rights Cory Doctorow

History New DNA tests show remains are Romanovs Rob Beschizza

books Charles Stross's "Dark State": transdimensional, nuclear-tipped mutually assured destruction by way of a first-rate spy novel Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Empire Games: Charlie Stross starts a new phase in the Merchant Princes series, blending spycraft, Leninist thought experiments, and parallel dimensions Cory Doctorow

siberia A trip to Siberia inspired "Madness Treads Lightly" Polina Dashkova

History What to do with Confederate statues? James Glaser