education UC Santa Cruz asks professors to rent their spare rooms to students who couldn't get housing guarantees Cory Doctorow

earthquake Cal Berkeley put a crooked line on its new football field, to show it sits on the Hayward Fault Rusty Blazenhoff

coronavirus Now that driving is down, so are organ transplants Thom Dunn

politics State Department inspector general Steve Linick fired on a Friday night, weird, wonder why? Xeni Jardin

animals Outdoor pet cats kill more animals than wild cats do in the same size area David Pescovitz

psychology How to think positively and why it's so hard to do that David Pescovitz

420 This 420 podcast about Black Holes will blow your mind with the power of Christ Thom Dunn

varsity blues Federal prosecutors release rowing photos Lori Loughlin allegedly used to get daughters into USC Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids His Royal High-ness Prince Harry’s Pot Farm, and stars with only months to live, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

animals Tessie and Binnie, the US Army's psychic dogs David Pescovitz

mars or bust How nanowires and bacteria can create organic compounds on Mars. Just add water. Gareth Branwyn

video games Talking Adventure Games with Mark Yohalem Jeffery Klaehn

climate Greenland and Antarctica melting 6x faster than in 1990s: NASA Xeni Jardin

Games The Sony PlayStation prototype sold for $360,000 to Pets.com founder Greg McLemore David Pescovitz

iot New app helps you identify IoT devices around you, tells you what data they collect Thom Dunn

computer science Larry Tesler, the father of cut, copy, paste, has died Gareth Branwyn

Enjoy this Star Trek fan's delightful "Ode to Spock" recorded after the Vulcan's film death in 1982 David Pescovitz

math How many triangles do you see? David Pescovitz

drugs A sober look at kratom, a psychoactive plant that has many claimed benefits, and has also inspired a moral panic Cory Doctorow

there is no room for amateurs in the drug culture Statins might make you a big jerk: unintended pharmacological side effects Jason Weisberger