AI Collecting all the ethical principles for robots, from Asimov to the trade union movement Cory Doctorow
Gadgets It’s 4/20 and these pipes, grinders, and vapes can help you celebrate the right way Boing Boing's Shop
The hard science behind transubstantiation Church of Cyprus says it is impossible for sacramental wine and bread to transmit diseases Mark Frauenfelder
Technology Russian priests must stop blessing nuclear weapons, says Russian Orthodox Church patriarch Xeni Jardin
housing Turning the ruins of a Medieval Italian village into a home and stone masonry school Gareth Branwyn
education Students at elite Shanghai university protest the removal of "freedom of thought" from the school charter Cory Doctorow
books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow
tech You can read beautifully illustrated novels in the New York Public Library's Instagram account John Struan
happy mutants Sarah Pinsker's "Song for a New Day": outstanding dystopian rock-and-roll novel of rebellion and redemption Cory Doctorow
denialism A new biography reveals the Koch brothers' very early role in creating organized climate denial Cory Doctorow
monopolism Share prices slide as DOJ announces sweeping antitrust investigations of Big Tech Cory Doctorow
uk After the Oliver Twist poorhouse became luxury housing with a segregated playground, London bans segregated play-areas Cory Doctorow
Old school In 1943, the chairman of the NY Fed backed Modern Monetary Theory: "Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete" Cory Doctorow
