education UC Santa Cruz asks professors to rent their spare rooms to students who couldn't get housing guarantees Cory Doctorow

Internet 31 communities vow to create local gigabit broadband Andrea James

racism Facebook says they removed 220 'Boogaloo' groups and 95 Instagram accounts Xeni Jardin

police violence A US Air Force Sergeant linked to Boogaloo Bois charged with killing police officer Thom Dunn

Delightful Creatures Watch: Playful coyote excited to pal around with a badger Carla Sinclair

Alleged menstrual blood tosser ordered away from California Capitol Xeni Jardin

Science Randall "XKCD" Munroe has a New York Times column where he answers weird science questions Cory Doctorow

books HOW TO: XKCD's Randall Munroe finds the humor in taking silly questions very, very seriously Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Announcing: the tour for "How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems," Randall "XKCD" Munroe's next book Cory Doctorow

music Patti Smith has a new memoir on the way David Pescovitz

corporate bullies Caterpillar Inc. sends cease and desist to Cat and Cloud Coffee shop Mark Frauenfelder

vaccination Entitled anti-vaxxers weasel around California law to dangerously enroll their kids in school Jason Weisberger

books Rudy Rucker's latest steampunk novel: "Return to the Hollow Earth," a voyage starring Santa Cruz hippies and Edgar Allan Poe Cory Doctorow

obituary R.I.P. Koko, the amazing gorilla who used sign language to communicate with humans Rusty Blazenhoff

Science More mammals are becoming nocturnal so they can avoid humans David Pescovitz

books Support Rudy Rucker's Kickstarter for his new book "Return to the Hollow Earth" David Pescovitz

roller derby Roller Derby in Eugene: The Big O is on May 4-6 Jason Weisberger

Islands Santa Cruz del Islote, the "world's most crowded island" Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Vsauce went to Peru to experience ayahuasca Rusty Blazenhoff