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physics Incredible no-glue toilet paper roll model of buckminsterfullerene David Pescovitz

NASA Quarantine survival advice from Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts Thom Dunn

video games Talking Adventure Games with Mark Yohalem Jeffery Klaehn

Business Coronavirus and oil wars sink world financial markets Xeni Jardin

art Art in the age of artifice Ferdinando Buscema

Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin

music Listen to spies' shortwave radio broadcasts David Pescovitz

health Indiana’s oldest state employee retiring at 102 Xeni Jardin

surveillance Toronto business and government signal full support for Sidewalk Labs' dominance of the city and beyond Rosemary Frei

science fiction Welcome to 2020 and your annual State of the World discussion with Bruce Sterling, Jon Lebkowsky and The WELL Cory Doctorow

gender American Airlines now offers 'U' and 'X' gender markers for nonbinary flyers Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Bunnie Huang's classic "Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen" is now free online Cory Doctorow

privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow

canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei

Gadgets Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law Cory Doctorow

eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz