human rights Math against crimes against humanity: Using rigorous statistics to prove genocide when the dead cannot speak for themselves Cory Doctorow

human rights Using statistics to estimate the true scope of the secret killings at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group

Science This is how some snakes can fly David Pescovitz

coronavirus Coronavirus: These airlines are suspending flights Xeni Jardin

Weird Wild elephant found gingerly walking through Sri Lankan hotel exploring things with its trunk Gareth Branwyn

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2019 Boing Boing

bad ideas Restaurant shamed for using live crabs in claw machine Mark Frauenfelder

china Hong Kong bans makeup and masks so facial recognition cameras can identify protesters Cory Doctorow

mistakes Coroner says two rugby players who overdosed on heroin 'did not mean to buy drug' Mark Frauenfelder

racism Facebook claims to be taking white supremacist violence more seriously, LMAO Xeni Jardin

security Your kid's "smart watch" lets anyone in the world trace their location. Again. Cory Doctorow

books Gollancz has published its first anthology of South Asian Science Fiction Cory Doctorow

picks Those violent 'yellow jacket' protests in France? Facebook's behind that, too. Xeni Jardin

religion Vardø, the witch capital of Norway Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Kickstarting a seminar series with Ada Palmer and me about the history of censorship and information control Cory Doctorow

drugs Smoking heroin doesn't make it any safer Seamus Bellamy

racism Albert Einstein's racist travel diaries Rob Beschizza

picks World's smallest species of wildcat could fit in the palm of your hand Mark Frauenfelder

music Someone asked every member of Ireland's parliament what their favorite Beyoncé song was Rob Beschizza

Disney Gamer star PewDiePie canned by Disney and YouTube after anti-semitic postings Rob Beschizza