picks Fox News advice on how to win the lottery Mark Frauenfelder

art Modern porcelain sculpture about greed made in classical Chinese style Andrea James

jeffrey epstein The "Jeffrey Epstein's Financial Assistant Scheme" is a 2020 twist on the classic Nigerian Prince Scam Thom Dunn

lotteries Man uses a lucky coin to win $4-million from scratch ticket — not once, but twice Carla Sinclair

Tom the Dancing Bug Come out, it's time. For the lottery. Ruben Bolling

music Monday: New Order's Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris's streaming tribute to Joy Division's Ian Curtis David Pescovitz

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

crime New guy at gas station stole $17,183 worth of stuff on first shift, say cops Xeni Jardin

Business Trump expands racist travel ban to 6 additional countries Xeni Jardin

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

fraud Two men arrested for pasting winning numbers onto a losing lottery ticket Mark Frauenfelder

crime The bizarre story of China's most prolific bank-robbers, who stole literal tons of cash and spent it on losing lotto tickets Cory Doctorow

science fiction Podcast: Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 1) Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Talking science fiction, technological self-determination, inequality and competition with physicist Sean Carroll Cory Doctorow

Artistic L.A. trucker transforms road grit into truck masterpieces Xeni Jardin

signs Woman buys 30 lottery tickets with the same numbers after seeing them "a couple of times during the day" and wins $150,000 Carla Sinclair

spooks Phone scammer tried to con William Webster, the only person ever to serve as director of both the CIA and FBI: it did not go well Cory Doctorow

Games Lawrence Lessig on designing a corruption-resistant democracy for a virtual world Cory Doctorow

fake news Alien attack imminent, Buckingham Palace is a drug den, and the Queen is a criminal mastermind, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan

class war Universal basic income vs jobs guarantees: which one will make us happier? Cory Doctorow