The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

I won’t live to see how civilization gets out of this mess. But I have hope. By Piers J. Sellers.

For a quarter of a century, Terry Bressi, staff member and chief engineer for the Spacewatch project at the University of Arizona’s Lunar & Planetary Lab, has had two constants in his life. The first is driving to and from the Kitt Peak National Observatory for work, part of which involves trying to identify asteroids that might threaten Earth. The second is having the federal Customs and Border Protection agents or their local law enforcement counterparts harass or even arrest him regularly during those drives on Arizona’s Route 86, the only viable major road connecting Tucson and the observatory.

The Sisters of Mercy

Protecting your data online is of great importance. Not only does your information have value, it is highly valuable to others. Can the GDPR project people from big data?

A quicky. :-) - Acrylics on canvas, 24 * 30 cm - 2018

General McMaster had struggled for months to impose order not only on a fractious national security team but on a president who resisted the sort of discipline customary in the military.

From a spacecraft fitted with a gun to a nuclear-powered Mars ship, some Cold War missions came close to flight before being abandoned. But one of them is finally becoming reality.

A local priest and deacon stood by the side of the road holding up a sign that read, “The End is Near! Turn yourself around now before it’s too late!” They held up the sign to each passing car.

“Leave us alone you religious nuts!” yelled the first driver as he sped by. From around the curve they heard a big splash.

“Do you think,” said one clergy to the other, “we should just put up a sign that says ‘bridge is out’ instead?”

Harry Chapin

Can you trust any browser extensions? IT shops might want to consider extension blocking as a policy.

Nothing reveals the curious disposability of consumer technology more than this feeble, aging device.

There’s nothing to celebrate about the FBI — it isn’t, nor has it ever been, a guardian of democracy. By Branko Marcetic.

Emmett Rensin offers a psychoanalysis of managerial liberalism.

The 110 million-year-old fossil of a nodosaur preserves the animal’s armor, skin, and what may have been its final meal. By Michael Greshko.

A travel through pin up style time as we explore how pin up dress sense has evolved over the years. Did the bicycle kick off the pin up trend?

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum—and one of the trees has Stuckie the dog.

For free.

If apps like Signal really posed a threat to the NSA’s surveillance power, why would the U.S. government continue to fund them? By Yasha Levine.

The latest version of macOS includes a mindlessly simple, one-step way to take over any Mac.

We've seen Fabian Oefner's stunning work before. His colorful centrifuge and his high-speed photos of burning alcohol vapors left no doubt about his deftness as a photographer. This project, injecting colors into a ferrofluid, is riotously gorgeous.  Ferrofluid is a liquid containing ferromagnetic p

A painter with dozens of pieces but only one subject—his ex-wife.

The worst day of Brad McGahey’s life was the day a judge decided to spare him from prison. McGahey was 23 with dreams of making it big in rodeo, maybe starring in his own reality TV show. With a 1.5 GPA, he’d barely graduated from high school. He had two kids and mounting child support debt. Then he got busted for buying a stolen horse trailer, fell behind on court fines and blew off his probation officer.

Many people were surprised when President Donald Trump suggested that NFL team owners fire players who quietly choose to sit out the national anthem before games, but I was not one of them.