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Saturday interviewPussy RiotInterviewNadya Tolokonnikova: ‘I suppose we have nothing more to lose’Amelia GentlemanNadya Tolokonnikova spent 18 months in jail after Pussy Riot’s protests against Vladimir Putin. She is feted across the West but now she just wants to concentrate on the real work of reform in RussiaIf Nadya Tolokonnikova wanted to abandon protest and flee Russia for a life of quiet exile in the west, it wouldn’t be so surprising. Although she was freed, by presidential amnesty, last December after serving 18 months in prison for participating in an anti-Putin punk protest, the Pussy Rioter remains under the close watch of the Russian state.

Brain flappingScience This article is more than 9 years oldSanta Claus deniers: why do they get so much airtime?This article is more than 9 years oldDean BurnettA comedian runs into trouble when she states on television, repeatedly, that Santa is not real. Why are deniers given so many high-profile platforms to spout their views when the scientific evidence for Santa is so overwhelming? Santa-denial has surfaced again, this time on Australian television show The Project, in the guise of its guest Kitty Flanagan.

The Essential Difference front page | The Empathy Quotient (EQ) test The Systemizing Quotient (SQ) The Systemizing Quotient gives a score based on how interested you assess yourself to be in each of the following forms of systemizing. Systemizing is the drive to analyse and explore a system, to extract underlying rules that govern the behaviour of a system; and the drive to construct systems. Please read each of the following 60 statements very carefully and rate how strongly you agree or disagree with them by circling your answer.

Hannah Maguire (left) and Suruthi Bala go in search of shamanic enlightenment in the binge-tastic true-crime series Filthy Ritual.Hannah Maguire (left) and Suruthi Bala go in search of shamanic enlightenment in the binge-tastic true-crime series Filthy Ritual.Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radioPodcastsReviewA gripping six-parter tells the tale of a shamanic dealer who scammed north London’s elite, while Russian spies pull off a different kind of trick, passing as an ‘ordinary American couple’ for several years

Indigenous peoplesJust 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land The mysterious rash on the arm of six-year-old Theron wouldn’t heal. For almost a year, his mother, Iokarenhtha Thomas, who lives in the Six Nations of the Grand River indigenous reserve in Ontario, went to the local doctor for lotions for the boy. It worked, for a time.

Pakistan cricket team This article is more than 13 years oldLeaked video reveals Pakistan management's fears of match-fixingThis article is more than 13 years old Management incredulous over wicketkeeper's mistakes Players and officials questioned by parliamentary committeeA video has been leaked showing the management of the Pakistan cricket team raising suspicions about match-fixing within the side. The leak has resulted in officials, coaches and players being summoned to appear in front of a parliamentary committee.

Students from the Delta Music Institute at Delta State University perform at the main stage downtown during the 20th annual Juke Joint festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on 15 April.Clarksdale, Mississippi, is the home of the Juke Joint festival, near the site where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul by Rory Doyle (words and photographs)Clarksdale, Mississippi, a small town in the heart of the Delta region, occupies a big space in American cultural history.

CrimeTeenagers guilty of ‘senseless’ murder of transgender girl Brianna GheyMurder-obsessed 16-year-olds convicted of killing girl who was stabbed 28 times in Warrington park Two 16-year-olds have been found guilty of the “senseless” murder of Brianna Ghey, a “witty, funny and fearless” transgender girl who was stabbed 28 times in a Warrington park this year. The murder-obsessed teenagers, known as Girl X and Boy Y to protect their identities, were found guilty unanimously by a jury at Manchester crown court on Wednesday after it deliberated for four hours and 40 minutes.

FictionReviewA boy takes up ballet in 1960s South Dakota, in this bruising novel about siblings, self-destruction and survivor guilt The family is a complex collective: no matter how far from it we roam, or how radically we transform ourselves, we can’t cut loose from our origins. We are who we are partly because of how we were raised, and who we were raised with. Often, within families, there is a parent or brother or sister around whom all the other members of the family cannot but shape themselves.