Fight Night! Street Angel vs. Dr. Pangea's Ninja henchmen. By Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca

This week, Xeni, Mark and Jason talk TSA-friendly backpacks, aromatherapy to help you sleep, and two travel must-haves for your phablet and vehicle batteries.

Street Angel searches for Dr. Pangea's secret lair, with the help of her friend, the Bald Eagle. By Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca

In the latest episode of This Week in Science, Dr. Kiki started the show with a rundown of the 2014 Nobel Prize winners in the science categories, and then moved… Read the rest of the article: How rabies hitches a ride into the central nervous system

In our last installment, mad geologist Dr. Pangea escaped a maximum security prison with plans to reform the Pangean supercontinent. In this installment we meet the one assigned to stop him: an 8th grade girl named Jesse Sanchez, AKA Street Angel. By Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca

Street Angel, a new comic series by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca. This issue: insane geologist Dr. Pangea has escaped his maximum security prison cell! What chaos could he wreak?

Dr. Kiki started the show with a story about stem cells. European scientists published work showing that they are now able to reprogram adult pluripotent stem cells so that they… Read the rest of the article: Artificial sweeteners screw with your gut biome

Designer Paul Bacon is known for developing the "Big Book Look" – commercial, bold and iconic – designing many well known covers from the 1960s through the early 2000s. Mulholland Books designer Lauren Harms tells how his Coma cover was revised for the new edition.

Ella Frances Sanders illustrates words held to be untranslatable, to English equivalents, from their native languages.

There are a handful of other books about African-American quilts, particularly quilts from Gee’s Bend; each have beautiful quilts to show, but this obscure exhibition catalogue remains my favorite. Whereas… Read the rest of the article: Accidentally on Purpose – The beauty of jazz-like improvisational quilting

"The Day The Mummy Returned" is a 1971 short story written by Ed Wood, Jr. the American original who gave us Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 from Outer Space, and so much more. It's presented here for the first time in over forty years since its initial publication.

Xeni Jardin reports in from the much-anticipated presentation today in Cupertino, California.

This week in Gadgets, Drew Curtis of Fark joins Xeni, Jason, and Mark to discuss a laser temperature probe, an app for wine enthusiasts, an RFID blocking wallet, a Wifi scale, the best online walking cane store, and a two-piece smartphone charger.

Jim Rugg interviews Andrew Neal, who devised a plan to create a dozen variant-edition comic covers for popular series.

Explore the art and allure of vinyl records with Death Cab for Cutie bassist Nick Harmer, Wilco and Miles Davis album designer Lawrence Azerrad, and Dead Kennedys/Alternative Tentacles artist Winston Smith. Panel moderated by Boing Boing's David Pescovitz.

In each episode of the Gadgets podcast we recommend technology we love and use. Xeni, Jason, and Mark check out a pro-quality food dehydrator, a camera lens and eyeglass cleaning brush, a cool synthesizer kit, and more!

The editors of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. Xeni, Jason, and Mark check out a Bluetooth speaker, an earphone cord manager, a compact phone recharger, snap-on earpod clips, an app for insomniacs, and more.

Here's an exclusive excerpt from Marcus Sakey's A Better World, the second book in the Brilliance saga.

In each episode of Gadgets the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Cat Paint for iOS, a GPS device for bikes, ambient sound maker for human babies, a great $14 pocket knife, a wireless home security camera, plus an exclusive giveaway for a pair of Audeze LCD 2 Bamboo ($1,000 value)!

Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an easy early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its sex and simulated violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, Koko finds the most challenging part of her day might be deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her. An exclusive excerpt from Kieran Shea's new novel, Koko Takes a Holiday.