documentaries Short documentary about Kharkovchanka, huge Antarctic off-road vehicles made by the Soviets Rob Beschizza

art Splendid Soviet painting of classroom computers is yours for $2500 Rob Beschizza

futurism A great look back at Soviet futurism Andrea James

History Wacky dudes in Russia open 1940s war ration can and eat it because Russia Xeni Jardin

politics WATCH: Fox News hosts say coronavirus is fake news, then change their tune Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

nsa Ingenious Cold War keylogger the Russians used to bug Selectric typewriters in the US embassy David Pescovitz

books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow

boats Enjoy this video featuring an enormous, nuclear-powered icebreaker Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Hannu Rajaniemi's Summerland: a midcentury spy thriller, with the afterlife Cory Doctorow

Space Auction: the only moon rocks retrieved from the lunar surface that can be legally sold David Pescovitz

History What to do with Confederate statues? James Glaser

Business Russian inequality is worse than imagined; worse than other post-Soviet states Cory Doctorow

science education How Americans got so weird about science Ben Marks

alternate history Making a better World War II Gregory Benford

science fiction Sci-Fi Sundays: The Original Science Fiction Stories, March 1957 Caleb Kraft

video How many humans and animals have died while on space missions? Andrea James

animals Why the US Navy wanted to communicate using whale language David Pescovitz

space exploration It's time to get beyond low earth orbit Christopher Mari

Soviet Union Mechanical movements of the Cold War: how the Soviets revolutionized wristwatches Ben Marks