music The story behind Toto's 'Africa' Rusty Blazenhoff

History Aviation museums' "most wanted list" of cool aerospace artifacts lost to history David Pescovitz

Gadgets Save 15% on this craft tequila that comes with free shipping right to your door Boing Boing's Shop

animals An author wrote a beautiful tribute to his late dog disguised as writing advice Thom Dunn

science fiction New edition of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother/Homeland with intro by Edward Snowden Mark Frauenfelder

police brutality New court documents allegedly connect Breonna Taylor's murder to a massive real estate conspiracy Thom Dunn

racism The US Department of Justice was originally created to tackle white supremacy Thom Dunn

Kids Online course shows young artists how to make portraits in Kehinde Wiley's style Andrea James

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Spoken Word with Electronics For triggers, gates, clocks, and sociopaths alike, "Master/Slave" faces retirement Ethan Persoff

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

trump WATCH: Asked about 2nd-term priorities, Donald Trump goofs bigly on Hannity Xeni Jardin

music Nile Rodgers tells of transforming Bowie's "Let's Dance" from folky to beyond funky David Pescovitz

the cruelty is the point A catalog of Trump's top cruelties 2011-2020 Mark Frauenfelder

racists University of Cincinnati will remove Hitler-praiser Marge Schott's name from stadium Mark Frauenfelder

Science "My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy." David Pescovitz

writing Raymond Chandler is the once and future king of opening paragraphs Seamus Bellamy

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

Killers hunt Prince Andrew, Brad Pitt’s secret daughter, and George Clooney’s plastic surgery shocker, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan