offworld Terrorize the seas as the white whale of Moby Dick, but with lasers Laura Hudson

tabloids The Queen’s worst nightmare, Prince Andrew jailed, and Royal cosmetic surgery exposed in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Gadgets These earbuds were designed to help you get a better night sleep Boing Boing's Shop

eff Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon from a more civilized age to slay today's monopolies Cory Doctorow

fake news Mueller snubbed, Harry and Meghan exiled, and suicidal airline pilots in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

novels Late bloomers: 10 classic books with terrible initial reviews Alyssa Favreau

corruption A pair of leaked powerpoints reveal the earliest-known evidence of the Republican gerrymandering plan that gave us Trump Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism There's an 820-foot-long fatberg clogging an east London sewer Cory Doctorow

videos Bake: a Piescraper that towers over the dessert-table Cory Doctorow

History How America's obsession with hula girls almost wrecked Hawai'i Ben Marks

video First underwater video of True's beaked whales in the wild Andrea James

movies Arrival's Denis Villeneuve to direct Dune remake Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Kids explain how banned and challenged books helped them and even saved their lives Joan Bertin and Millie Davis

Health Care The current state of American healthcare Matthew B.J. Delaney

Comic Books Jack Kirby's long-lost, incomplete "The Prisoner" comic book Gareth Branwyn

writing Tactical Awareness: 100 100-word stories about the uneasy sense of living in the Uncanny Valley Marcelo Rinesi

mistakes were made ‘Super racist’ pool safety poster prompts Red Cross apology Mark Frauenfelder

History The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes Ryan Holiday

photography White Heat 25 – A cookbook about a sleep-deprived, nicotine-fueled mad man in the kitchen Wink

books Best older kid's literature from 1966 Joshua Glenn