military The Army is using quack "battlefield acupuncture" based on junk science Cory Doctorow

micronations Sealand's caretakers Rob Beschizza

books "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death, and dad's amateur erotica career Thom Dunn

facebook Facebook's new Fact-Checking policies have carved out an exemption for climate deniers Thom Dunn

Gadgets Learn how to make the perfect drink every time with this mixology training Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids Kim Jong-un is dead, Prince Andrew is broke, and Kobe Bryant killed himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

tai chi Amateur fighter knocks the lights out of tai chi master in about 30 seconds Carla Sinclair

music The Library of Congress is launching an open-source archive of hip-hop samples dating back more than a century Thom Dunn

morse code High-speed morse code with a straight key Rob Beschizza

Gadgets Here’s a truckload of Mother’s Day options for the Mom who loves her kitchen Boing Boing's Shop

Science Enormous and “potentially hazardous" asteroid will fly by Earth tomorrow David Pescovitz

coronavirus Wholesale restaurant supply chain opens to the public for the first time — I left with TP, milk, and more (photos/tips) Rusty Blazenhoff

coronavirus Read this contentious New Yorker interview with the lawyer who wrote the coronavirus paper Trump embraces Mark Frauenfelder

flight Building an R/C version of a Soviet-era ground-effect plane Gareth Branwyn

mistakes Michael Avenatti convicted of trying to extort Nike Rob Beschizza

tabloids Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don’t use Viagra, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

makers Teenagers recreate Toy Story 3 using stop-motion animation Mark Frauenfelder

Business Why I won't buy an Ipad: ten years later Cory Doctorow

makers Turning a leaf blower into an R/C plane Gareth Branwyn

conspiracies American conspiracy theorists keep insisting on their right to trial by combat Cory Doctorow