Funny An oral history of The Office David Pescovitz

History If you loved HBO’s "The Deuce," The Rialto Report will leave you spellbound Matt Maranian

books Why do new psychotherapies work, and then stop? Cory Doctorow

guns Most "black market" guns in America are purchased legally across state lines Thom Dunn

happy mutants Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments": a long-awaited Handmaid's Tale sequel fulfills its promise Cory Doctorow

Science NASA fed moonrocks to cockroaches and injected moon dust into mice David Pescovitz

google Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they've invented a mind-control ray Cory Doctorow

research How the Director of Research for Radiolab finds story ideas Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Robin "Sourdough" Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel Cory Doctorow

books The ethics of wiping out a mosquito species Christopher Preston

History The first "portable" computer fit in two trailer vans and weighed 20 tons Cory Doctorow

obits Ms Sheila Michaels, activist who popularized "Ms." honorific, dead at 78 Rob Beschizza

picks Astronaut Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon, has died at 82 Xeni Jardin

History The arc of history is long, but how do we bend it? Cory Doctorow

happy mutants It’s about Time: Reading Steampunk’s Rise and Roots Rachel A. Bowser and Brian Croxall

music Walt Disney Records Legacy Collection: 20 hours' worth of rarities, 12 books' worth of history Cory Doctorow

loot Why we want luxury items Rob Beschizza

Science Only you can determine what tops the official Hallowe'en Candy Hierarchy David Ng and Ben Cohen

Woman behind Pakistan’s first hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, shot dead by unknown gunmen Xeni Jardin

How comic book movies kill the deep, mythic history of comic book characters Peter Bebergal