music Watch 'The Lyft Rapper' co-create music with his passengers Rusty Blazenhoff

activism How to be a guerrilla theatre activist David Pescovitz

dogs Pandemic-frazzled dog goes on anti-fireworks rant Andrea James

music Saxophone played into an empty pipeline Rob Beschizza

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

museums Are there ghosts haunting the antiquities of the British Museum? Gareth Branwyn

COVID-19 Is anyone surprised?: "Reopen America" is an astroturf campaign Gareth Branwyn

creativity How to roll an imaginary 6-sided die in your head Mark Frauenfelder

reproduction Female komodo dragons don't need no man to make more dragons Thom Dunn

Sex Understanding the neuroscience of pleasure Mark Frauenfelder

climate Climate denial has destroyed the libertarian movement Cory Doctorow

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

robots Very weird faceless robot baby for elderly people David Pescovitz

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

cephalopods Octopus changes color while asleep, possibly dreaming Clive Thompson

passings RIP Daniel Johnston 1961-2019 Case Esparros