Science NASA delivers first grant in 30 years to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence David Pescovitz
Weird "Clever Creature" is part podcast, part experimental variety show, and all perfectly weird Rusty Blazenhoff
politics Andrew Cuomo's naked hostility drives out MTA president Andy Byford, the "Train Daddy" who has transformed the world's rail systems Cory Doctorow
police This popular police "mindreading" technique is bullshit — but the things that cops say about it are somehow even worse. Thom Dunn
Creepy Interesting and Real Mysteries of the Unknown: Inside the world of the strange and unexplained Mark Frauenfelder
glitter elephant brooches Galveston GOP Chairwoman says her text message with N-word was a "typo" Mark Frauenfelder
authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow