fox news Gretchen Carlson to Fox: release employees from NDAs, 'buying silence instead of stopping harassment is immoral and unjust' Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Completely silent computer built Rob Beschizza

religion Quakers release podcast of silent meeting David Pescovitz

fill the swamp Calling politicians on their bullshit in West Virginia will get you dragged away Seamus Bellamy

music The man who seeks the sound of silence David Pescovitz

tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

free speech Why Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" is dumb Mark Frauenfelder

ice cream Japan parks ban screaming on rollercoasters Rob Beschizza

troll taming How to deal with unreasonable or mean people on Twitter Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets The Moskiller can eradicate mosquitoes from your backyard without any chemicals Boing Boing's Shop

art Watch "Zen for Film" (1965), a film about nothing, and everything David Pescovitz

censorship Bowing to China, Zoom deactivated accounts of US-based activists Xeni Jardin

police How every police officer becomes complicit in a terrible system Thom Dunn

coronavirus Oblivious man walks out of 75-day silent retreat and tweets 'Did I miss anything?' Carla Sinclair

Business Ben & Jerry's on Black Lives Matter and the police killing of George Floyd: We Must Dismantle White Supremacy Xeni Jardin

Technology Here's what Facebook employees are saying about Zuckerberg's decision not to remove Trump's threats of violence Xeni Jardin

Business Trump threatens GOP control of Twitter, Facebook: 'We will strongly regulate, or close them down' Xeni Jardin

music There's actually an interesting (and obsessive) story behind Wheatus's "Teenage Dirtbag" Thom Dunn