Science Mobile game of the week: Specimen, A Game About Color Leigh Alexander

summer Mousommar: adorable rodent May Queen Rob Beschizza

drawing How to draw natural history specimens Mark Frauenfelder

politics Coronavirus whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright to testify before House health committee on May 14 Xeni Jardin

makers Extremely satisfying 1960s Tonka tow truck restoration video Mark Frauenfelder

animal crossing "Animal crossing is a political hypothesis about how a different kind of world might work Dash with no losers" – Bogost Mark Frauenfelder

Science This tiny skull trapped in amber belongs to the smallest dinosaur ever discovered David Pescovitz

photography The Smithsonian just released 2.8 million images into the public domain David Pescovitz

brains US Customs seized a human brain on its way from Toronto to Wisconsin David Pescovitz

health CDC coronavirus tests give "inconclusive" results, may not work: officials Xeni Jardin

wonderful creatures Macrocilix maia, a moth that evolved to look like flies eating glistening bird shit Rob Beschizza

animals Cute "mouse-deer," long lost to science, has been photographed again David Pescovitz

occult Weird "witch bottle" found in former pub's chimney David Pescovitz

retrogaming Look at this beautiful book of old arcade game typography Mark Frauenfelder

biology Check out this 480 million-year-old conga line of arthropods David Pescovitz

security Attribution is hard: the incredible skullduggery used to try to blame the 2018 Olympic cyberattack on North Korea Cory Doctorow

Games Arcade Game Typography: beautiful book of pixel fonts Rob Beschizza

Science Women are much more likely to be injured in car crashes, probably because crash-test dummies are mostly male-shaped Cory Doctorow

animals Library loans taxidermy animals for science, education, and Harry Potter parties David Pescovitz

Business China legalizes eating a pufferfish bred to be nonpoisonous Cory Doctorow