california I'm speaking at UCSD on Feb 9! Cory Doctorow

Games Kickstarting Sugar Heist, a delightful card game about stealing candy from babies Thom Dunn

video games Play Borderlands 3 and help map the foreign microbes found in human poop Gareth Branwyn

Technology Gorilla, 3, gets treated for cataract (VIDEO) Xeni Jardin

audible illusions I just learned about the delightful speech-to-song illusion Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants It's time for the Clarion/Clarion West Write-a-Thon! Cory Doctorow

Science More promising news about phages, the parasites that prey on parasites Cory Doctorow

Business PWC recommended that corporations should ask science fiction writers about the future Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy writing workshop is open to applications for the 2019 session Cory Doctorow

Kids Great explainer on how glass top pool tables work Andrea James

censorship Quackspeak ascendant: China's subject-changing astroturfers rule the Chinese internet Cory Doctorow

videos Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac hang out with New York's beats, 1959 Cory Doctorow

books San Diego! Come hear me read from Walkaway tomorrow night at Comickaze Liberty Station! Cory Doctorow

video Engineers create smart glove that turns sign language into text Andrea James

politics The internet is changing civil wars, and will change them further Cory Doctorow

web theory Facebook use is a predictor of depression Cory Doctorow

cartoons Bob Mankoff, New Yorker's cartoon editor, is retiring Andrea James

science fiction Clarion Workshop now accepting applications for sf writers to learn with Lynda Barry, Nalo Hopkinson, CC Finlay…and me! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Marina Abramović and Kim Stanley Robinson perform "The Hard Problem," a performance-art podcast Cory Doctorow

dolphins Recordings of various dolphin species' calls Rob Beschizza