sex work “I was an invisible girlfriend for a month.” Xeni Jardin

drugs Watch Jeanette go from pills to reefer to heroin in this 1961 anti-drug film Andrea James

Science A Scheme of Heaven is a deep investigation of astrology from a scientist’s perspective Ferdinando Buscema

History The wonderful You Must Remember This podcast returns to tell the secret history of Disney's most racist movie, Song of the South Cory Doctorow

happy mutant This is not a box of chocolates (it's felt art by LeBrie Rich) Rusty Blazenhoff

History Claim: Shakespeare's work was by a woman Rob Beschizza

bad ideas Super Seducer is a Playstation/Steam game where players grab women's "boobs" and "asses" Mark Frauenfelder

corruption For 40 years, American Conservatives have filed down the definition of "corruption," turning the Framers' spear into a blunt stub Cory Doctorow

books Acting Madly: the secret history of the lost MAD-alike magazines of the satire boom Cory Doctorow

books Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland's DODO novel mashes up D&D, time-travel and military bureaucracy Cory Doctorow

consent ”Sexual microaggressions” complicate our understanding of rape Caroline Siede

Gadgets The iPhone of slide rules David Pescovitz

surveillance Activist tricked into 6-year relationship with undercover cop tells her story Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Comics historian Craig Yoe celebrates Banned Books Week with the Forbidden Comics bundle Craig Yoe

Sex The millennials are all right, and so are their sex games Laura Hudson

halt and catch fire "Halt and Catch Fire" captures the spirit of tech innovation Patrick Lohier

game of thrones Game of Thrones heads for uncertain destinations Rob Beschizza

art 16 cartoonists who changed the world Monte Beauchamp