Culture People from 70 countries imitate the sounds cats and dogs make Rusty Blazenhoff

Japan Kitten + Owlet + Coffee equals cute Andrea James

writing tools The Writers' Co-op is a great new podcast about how to make your freelance writing career work Thom Dunn

art Sculptor creates the world's tiniest chess set, the size of a thumbtack David Pescovitz

coronavirus Coronavirus: These airlines are suspending flights Xeni Jardin

fashion Boda Boda fashion show: equipping Nairobi motor taxi drivers with outfits to match their glorious bikes Cory Doctorow

happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

serious business Blogging is hard, learns Gawker's new bosses Rob Beschizza

facebook A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers Cory Doctorow

open source 3D printing stethoscopes, tourniquets and crucial dialysis-machine parts in Gaza Clive Thompson

Inside the lives of people writing essays for US students Clive Thompson

Roadside Attractions Paul Bunyan and other fiberglass advertising giants ride again at Bell Plastics in Hayward California Janelle Hessig

Gadgets Teardown of Apple's lightning-to-HDMI adapter, which turns out to be a tiny computer with 256MB of RAM Rob Beschizza

nra NRA dumps its ad firm, TV crew and Dana Loesch Rob Beschizza

politics Read the full text of the Mueller report here, as redacted by Barr Xeni Jardin

Business Microsoft confirms 'Bing is currently inaccessible in China' Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Scenes from the Bangalore Literature Festival Jasmina Tesanovic

class war Kenyans from "the toughest neighborhood on earth" trace pixels all day to train autonomous vehicles Cory Doctorow