baseball No more spitting in Major League Baseball David Pescovitz

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racism White lawyer who spat on black high schooler charged with hate crime Mark Frauenfelder

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Science Here comes the sun — our closest star is spitting out mysterious gamma rays Gareth Branwyn

science fiction Max Barry on how science fiction prepares us for the apocalypse Mark Frauenfelder

travel Passenger videos plane wheel disintegrating during takeoff Rob Beschizza

tv Gaze upon the disturbing Zuckerberg and Trump puppets from the new incarnation of 80's series Spitting Image John Struan

music New Pussy Riot video: 1937 Mark Frauenfelder

racism School secretary loses job after racist tirade captured on video Rob Beschizza

eu As expected, the EU has advanced the catastrophic Copyright Directive without fixing its terrible defects Cory Doctorow

anti-vaxxers When teen defies anti-vax parents and gets shots, his mom says it's a "slap in the face" Carla Sinclair

Science A teenage science geek's quest to collect every element on the periodic table David Pescovitz

Copyfight France and Germany just cut a deal to save the EU's #CopyrightDirective — and made it much, much worse (PLEASE SHARE THIS POST!) Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Sort by Controversial: training machine learning to sow irreparable divisions Cory Doctorow

gop White supremacy, minus gerrymandering: California GOP reduced to "third party status" Cory Doctorow

Entertainment That Time Danny DeVito Saved Michael Douglas' Life (Surprise Ending!) Xeni Jardin

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