photography Remarkable portraits of Indian flower vendors Andrea James

card tricks Use borderless cards for three card monte Jason Weisberger

tabloids Your dollar bills could kill you, and Prince Andrew tries to kill himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

Virtual reality The making of first hand-drawn VR cartoon Michael Lipman

History The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes Ryan Holiday

Business How the UK's biggest pharmacy chain went from family-run public service to debt-laden hedge-fund disaster Cory Doctorow

Vintage Weird People in Victorian England were fanatical about kaleidoscopes Mark Frauenfelder

cuba A brief visit to Cuba Lars Forseti

Starbucks opens “Espresso Shot” version of store on Wall Street Mark Frauenfelder

Searching for Krampus Al Ridenour

William S. Burroughs and the Dead-End Horror of the Centipede God Mark Dery

science fiction Koko Takes a Holiday Boing Boing

maker XOXO: Maker Love, Not Thwart Glenn Fleishman