china The last of China's cave dwellers want nothing to do with modern housing Seamus Bellamy

Sex Safer sex now means wearing a mask, says Canada's Chief Public Health Officer David Pescovitz

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Science We are all part of the biggest psychological experiment in history David Pescovitz

News COVID-19 grows in Los Angeles's poorer communities Jason Weisberger

Gadgets Here’s your last chance to nab some of this week’s best deals Boing Boing's Shop

social distancing Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? I think I know Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets These golf accessories will let you practice your game without leaving the house Boing Boing's Shop

politics Coronavirus: ICE to stop arresting migrants other than 'mission critical' arrests, whatever that is Xeni Jardin

Sex Understanding the neuroscience of pleasure Mark Frauenfelder

china China announces ban of single-use plastic bags and straws Cory Doctorow

china Leaked documents document China's plan for mass arrests and concentration-camp internment of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

movies In the mood for a different kind of horror movie tonight? Go see Parasite Natalie Dressed

World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow

television Gilligan's Island's S.S. Minnow was named as an insult to the chair of the FCC David Pescovitz

your ig nobel is in the mail Knives made of human feces don't actually work, experiment finds Clive Thompson

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow

prisons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, in jail for life, draws his prison cell Mark Frauenfelder

late stage capitalism Ex-Fox & Friends host, accused of a Ponzi scheme that turned Indianapolis real-estate investors into slumlords, moves to Portugal Cory Doctorow