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science demonstrations How to make some cool balancing toys Mark Frauenfelder

family A fun simple card trick from The Curiosity Show Mark Frauenfelder

china Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the "no mercy" plan for Muslims in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow

debunkings Egely Wheel telekinesis — fact or fiction? Mark Frauenfelder

makers Thinking back on the special magic of Make: and Maker Faire Gareth Branwyn

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happy mutants The story of how sf writer and editor Judith Merril founded Toronto's astounding sf reference library and changed the city Cory Doctorow

books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow

Science For more than half a century, the sugar industry has used Big Tobacco tactics to suppress sugar/cancer link and to confuse the science Cory Doctorow

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media theory UK press doesn't understand chemistry or Amazon, launches bomb-making panic Cory Doctorow

politics The internet is changing civil wars, and will change them further Cory Doctorow

Science Watch a crushed Life Saver emit light at 28,000 frames per second Andrea James

Science The spores of club moss have magical powers David Pescovitz

podcasts How you can avoid committing the "conjunction fallacy" David McRaney

happy mutants Remarkably Normal: the true stories of abortion in America Cory Doctorow

surveillance China's online astroturf is mostly produced by government workers as "extra duty" Cory Doctorow