climate change There's 22 million gallons of nuclear waste under a concrete dome on a Pacific Island, and it's sinking Thom Dunn

nuclear weapons Nukemap: interactive map of potential nuclear bombing fatalities Andrea James

trump Kim Jong Un responds to Trump's name calling Jason Weisberger

fake news Tom Cruise’s healing touch, Nazi Roseanne, and Vanna White’s hooker scandal, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

News Kim Jong Un is a 'madman with nuclear weapons,' Trump says in leaked call to Duterte of Philippines—whom he praises Xeni Jardin

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

science fiction Johnny Mnemonic and the perfect cyberpunk movie it wasn't Jay Allen

The Twinkie Murder trial of Harvey Milk's killer Paul Krassner

Homer's Last Theorem Simon Singh

art Domo Arigato Restaurant Roboto! Chris Arkenberg

Science What came before the big bang? Paul Davies

promoted John Cusack in hacker-land Xeni Jardin

Potpourri: the $63,000 machine that transforms pot plants into concentrates. Michelle Goodman

Science Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress Rob Beschizza