Short story by T. Kingfisher.

Amazing crystal microscopy by Justin Zoll.

[via small world competition]

Robert Yang has been a longtime great video game blogger, designer, and of late, he is a full on academic. His write-up of his most recent game, Hard Lads, is fantastic.

We as a country are responsible for our collective success and our failure. Racism, death, poor health, and incarceration are failures.

The world is watching us fail. Let’s do the thing.

See also: how long this process takes.