earthquake What it was like to be in Japan's worst-ever earthquake Rob Beschizza

administrative incompetence Donations to help Puerto Ricans in wake of hurricane left to rot Seamus Bellamy

Japan Japan's flood woes still have a long way to go Seamus Bellamy

NASA NASA's got a computer model for predicting landslides Seamus Bellamy

disasters NYT: In times of global shock people help each other, while the elite panic Mark Frauenfelder

climate change Republicans get billions of dollars in public funding to fight climate change by pretending that it isn't real Thom Dunn

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

Gadgets Save over 50% on the expanded edition of Sid Meier's Civilization VI Boing Boing's Shop

gaming Civ VI's Gathering Storm expansion is now available on iOS Seamus Bellamy

donotpay Donotpay adds a feature that waits on hold for you, and now I'm ready to subscribe Cory Doctorow

bucket brigade Hong Kong protestors using mesh-networking messaging app to evade authorities Clive Thompson

late stage capitalism Corporate America projects giant profits from climate disasters Cory Doctorow

trees Ancient redwoods cloned and replanted Jason Weisberger

gop After killing disaster-recovery rules, Ajit Pai can't understand why carriers aren't helping hurricane-hit Florida Cory Doctorow

happy mutants OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction Cory Doctorow

class war Puerto Rico is a tax-haven for rich mainlanders and is also too broke to survive hurricanes: are these facts possibly related, somehow? Cory Doctorow

Science Study finds that false news spreads faster than truth online, thanks to humans (not bots) Cory Doctorow

rescue drones Drone saves two teenagers stuggling in ocean by dropping yellow raft Carla Sinclair