owl My favorite coffee mug depicts owls Jason Weisberger

sports Owen Morse sets hang gliding world record for piloting 222.22 miles over California's Owens Valley Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Here’s your Father’s Day Gift Guide…so you better choose wisely Boing Boing's Shop

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

Nature A featherless nestling fell out of its nest and onto our doorstep, here's what we did Rusty Blazenhoff

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

crime Court case lays bare KPMG's crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets Cory Doctorow

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas

cool stuff Check out these clear products from Theodore Gray's new book, How Things Work Mark Frauenfelder

World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

History A Tangled Weave: when Louis XIV made owning calico cotton a crime Michael Skeet

art Tim Biskup: new interview and book from the great pop surrealist David Pescovitz

tabloids Bill Clinton dying, a Hollywood baby boom, and a cross-dressing star outed in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the making of a whistleblower Cory Doctorow

#standedatnarita No trains or buses from Narita to Tokyo after the category 3 typhoon = chaos for thousands Sean Bonner

neuroscience Debunking the "Bereitschaftspotential", the brain signal that seemed to kill off free will Clive Thompson

picks My old Lodge chicken roasting pan bakes sourdough loaves, pizza and fries chicken Jason Weisberger

health This TARDIS Grows Weed With Artificial Intelligence Richard Metzger

music THE BUREAU: Part Seven, "Lockdown in the Building, News of an Active Shooter Near the Cafeteria" — with Mr Quintron's Circuit-Bent Guitars Ethan Persoff

happy mutants On the role of truth and philosophy in fantastic fiction Cory Doctorow