Science Don't Feed The Bears: we'll end up having to kill them Maggie Koerth

drugs Today is the 50th anniversary of Dock Ellis's legendary baseball no-hitter on LSD Thom Dunn

prison Watch a video of my prison and opioids play "Streets Like This," performed by actors who have all dealt with incarceration Thom Dunn

Nature A featherless nestling fell out of its nest and onto our doorstep, here's what we did Rusty Blazenhoff

censorship A new play lets formerly incarcerated people tell their stories. Meanwhile, prisons are still banning books. Thom Dunn

cute This 'foster mom' bear is raising a cub saved by a dog Xeni Jardin

nazis West Virginia governor wants Nazi saluting corrections cadets fired Rob Beschizza

books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow

Science People with half a brain. Literally. David Pescovitz

books Crowdfunding to help science fiction great Mike Resnick pay off the medical bills from a near-death experience Cory Doctorow

podcast A small city mayor explains why safe drug injection sites are so effective Thom Dunn

happy mutants Primary Sludge: "close fiction" from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann Sina Kamala Kaufmann

Science Researchers' budget blown when a migrating eagle's tracker chip connects to an Iranian cellular tower and sends expensive SMSes Cory Doctorow

wildlife Setting a rescued blue penguin free Xeni Jardin

Science A treadmill that trips you… for science David Pescovitz

cute Adorable baby skunk is adorable Xeni Jardin

Technology Millions of rehab records leak, including patient names – nearly 150,000 affected Xeni Jardin

Technology A new robotic arm design for future home robots that do our chores David Pescovitz

trumpism NYT: Saudi Arabia's Prince Charming was Mister Bone Saw all along Cory Doctorow

trump Obama's policy on Bush's crimes is how Kavanaugh got to the Supreme Court Cory Doctorow