education Lawyer for kid whose parents paid $1.2m bribe to get into Yale says the high price shows grifters' anti-Chinese bias Cory Doctorow

picks Yale rescinds admission for student whose parents allegedly paid $1.2 million to get her in Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Cybersecurity class challenged to hack a Raspberry-Pi-enabled "smart pumpkin" Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Talking the hard questions of privacy and freedom with the Yale Privacy Lab podcast Cory Doctorow

History This 4,000-year-old recipe has had a long time to stew Seamus Bellamy

scholarship Yale's most popular course ever: Happiness Cory Doctorow

Business America's leading Net Neutrality campaigner is suing NYC to fix its broken internet Cory Doctorow

animals Dogs will obey commands from social robots David Pescovitz

recreational lockpicking This combination lockbox is no match for a piece of aluminum can David Pescovitz

Science Significant undercount in U.S. coronavirus deaths: report Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Want to create your own Fortnite? This $15 training course can make it happen Boing Boing's Shop

schools Yale University's hugely popular "Science of Well Being" happiness class is now free online David Pescovitz

tabloids Megxit Explodes – Who’s to blame? in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

class war Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow

college A 52-year-old ex-Navy SEAL reflects on his first semester as a freshman at Yale Thom Dunn

aviation Using the Challenger Disaster to illustrate the 8 symptoms of groupthink Cory Doctorow

books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow

climate change UK officials blame asthmatics for the carbon footprints of 180,000 cars Thom Dunn

Entertainment A new island awaits you in 'Fortnite Chapter 2' Jason Weisberger

trump Former Trump advisor John Bolton: "I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up.” Rob Beschizza