brexit Delicious milkshake wasted on #Brexit's Nigel Farage Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Depictions of Addiction: a free online photography course, starting in two days Cory Doctorow

music Vaughan Oliver — graphic designer for 4AD, Cocteau Twins, Pixies — RIP David Pescovitz

microplastics Study: people could be eating a credit card's worth of microplastics per week Mark Frauenfelder

fake news Queen in drunken brawl, Prince Harry’s hell, and Meghan Markle’s secrets, in this week’s dubious Royal tabloids Peter Sheridan

oceans Wealthy adventurer just became the first person to touch the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean David Pescovitz

uk UN poverty envoy calls UK poverty a "political choice" that inflicted "great misery" Cory Doctorow

piketty How the "global super-rich" have honeycombed London's posh neighbourhoods with sub-basements, sub-sub-basements, and sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-basements Cory Doctorow

construction Every terrifying detail of what it's like to work as a saturation diver Andrea James

statues Driver sees woman covered in snow on park bench and calls ambulance, finds out woman isn't human Carla Sinclair

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

Business Crooks can guess Visa card details in six seconds by querying lots of websites at once Cory Doctorow

hamburgers Trencherwoman eats giant burger in under 10 minutes Mark Frauenfelder

health Study suggests Type 2 diabetes "can be cured" by weight loss Rob Beschizza

psychology Photos of watchful eyes discourage litterbugs Mark Frauenfelder

don't do this Woman banned from parks after pinching policeman's bottom Rob Beschizza

music The Animals' "The House of the Rising Sun" (1964) David Pescovitz