TED Talk Industry expert: "When are you good enough to become an industry expert?" Rusty Blazenhoff

social media How cities can serve as a model for social media platforms to build better community spaces Thom Dunn

play Simone Giertz on why we all should be making useless things Rusty Blazenhoff

fashion Fashion insider offers creative ways to tackle the industry's big pollution problem Rusty Blazenhoff

TED Talk Neuroscientist explains how your brain hallucinates your conscious reality Rusty Blazenhoff

TED Talk Will Stephen gives a TED Talk about absolutely nothing Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

hollywood Japanese sword master reviews the movies, shows how it's done Rob Beschizza

GOP Convention Mitch McConnell is 7th senator to back away from the Republican National Convention Carla Sinclair

dog Stella the 'talking' dog is mad about something Rusty Blazenhoff

sponsored If Cannabis Is “A Potential Way To Prevent COVID-19” Then Why Is Trump Blocking Research? Boing Boing

News WHO says 'evidence emerging' airborne COVID-19 spread may be a threat indoors Xeni Jardin

1980s Kevin Kelly talks about the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog in this 1980s news segment Mark Frauenfelder

Disney VFX student's TikTok superhero reel catches the eye of Disney's Bob Iger Rusty Blazenhoff

Spoken Word with Electronics Sound Design: How to Make Your Home Into Eraserhead or 2001: A Space Odyssey Ethan Persoff

Oakland Oakland Symphony performs radical social justice song of yore Rusty Blazenhoff

science fiction "Southland Tales" is the perfect hot mess of a movie for the 4th of July in the hellscape of 2020 Thom Dunn

books "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death, and dad's amateur erotica career Thom Dunn

b-side Trash-talking chess player's ass handed to him by 16-year-old Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan