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video Beautiful film on a Buddhist ritual only 46 monks have completed Andrea James

Weird The only man to never have seen a woman David Pescovitz

beer Monks looking at beer Rob Beschizza

kung fu The kung fu nuns of Kathmandu Andrea James

censorship Church of England refuses to allow foreign language on a gravestone, calling it a "political statement" Thom Dunn

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

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

happy mutants The snail cosmology of medieval manuscripts Cory Doctorow

security Weekend SIM-swapping blitz targets US cryptocurrency holders Cory Doctorow

Science Five-story-high spikes of ice could make it difficult to land on Jupiter moon David Pescovitz

Science How to tell if a comatose patient is actually conscious David Pescovitz

Spanish Inquisition The creepy/cool robes that heretics were forced to wear during the Spanish Inquisition Mark Frauenfelder

new york city The Rammellzee universe Rob Beschizza

religion Quakers release podcast of silent meeting David Pescovitz

bullshit The 'mystery' of who built the earthen mounds in the Midwest was nothing but white dude propaganda Seamus Bellamy

science fiction Josh Glenn's top 75 Golden Age sci-fi novels Mark Frauenfelder

web theory 50 million people in Myanmar can now get Facebook, and they're spreading a trumpian ethnic cleansing movement Cory Doctorow

libraries How you can help India's first free public library for the Tibetan exile community Xeni Jardin

happy mutants People being stabbed in medieval art and lovin' it Cory Doctorow