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zero waste Coffee chain ditching cups in 2020, customers must "rent" or bring their own Rusty Blazenhoff

Science The 2019 Halloween Candy Hierarchy David Ng and Ben Cohen

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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

Games Tetris gives you random tetrominoes, right? Rob Beschizza

travel tips My travel packing list Mark Frauenfelder

Real things that actually exist Soft, big Lucky Charms marshmallows headed to stores Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants David Silverberg's "Terms and Conditionals": the things you just agreed to David Silverberg

law Germany demands an end to working cryptography Cory Doctorow

star wars The cosplayers of Star Wars Celebration 2019 David Mizejewski

law A brilliant, simple exercise to teach privacy fundamentals Cory Doctorow

fake news Hoover killed JFK, RFK & MLK, Brad Pitt’s private hell, and Mick Jagger’s mental disorder, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

picks Give Women Your Money: Shoppable spreadsheet of women-led businesses Krystal Plomatos

psychedelic A handful of psychedelic "Atlantis" mushrooms in Amsterdam Jason Weisberger