desert Travel Tunes: Tinariwen—Kel Tinawen Seamus Bellamy

zoom You can use ANY image for your Zoom background Rusty Blazenhoff

travel My life on the road: Morocco Seamus Bellamy

Reviews This cheap professional grade electric razor is an upgrade I never knew I wanted Seamus Bellamy

authoritarianism Political journalist Omoyele Sowore arrested and tortured under Nigeria's overbroad "cyberstalking" law Cindy Cohn

swipe files Swipe files – cover art reference for Tribesman of Gor Mark Frauenfelder

movies "Then and Now" photos of Death Valley spots used for Tatooine in Star Wars David Pescovitz

climate change Europe just suffered through the hottest June in recorded history Seamus Bellamy

politics Facebook bans election-attack firm linked to Israeli military and 'dozens' more disinformation accounts Xeni Jardin

china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

News Tanzania detains reporters Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo Xeni Jardin

books The ethics of wiping out a mosquito species Christopher Preston

terrorists Japan cult leader executed over 1995 sarin attack Rob Beschizza

Journalism Africa is littered with abandoned poorly-planned aid projects Andrea James

Weird Freaky orange snow falls on parts of Eastern Europe David Pescovitz

race Secrets of the World's Greatest Hitchhiker Cory Doctorow

peak phosphorus The world is running out of phosphorus, which threatens global food supply Mark Frauenfelder