History New Hiroshima bombing photo shows split mushroom cloud Xeni Jardin

war How to survive an atomic bomb: insurance company ad, 1951 Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Your home office could use some work of its own and these 20 items might just do the trick Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

television The time a man held a news anchor hostage on live TV David Pescovitz

Vintage Weird Editorial guidelines from Spicy Detective magazine, 1935 Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Rodney Orpheus' pandemic oasis, Desert Island Nerds Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants Look kids, it's a tour of the 1951 A.C. Gilbert Radioactive Atomic Energy Lab Kit, now with seven sources of radiation! Gareth Branwyn

Weird Neighbor accused of stealing skeleton in window with middle finger raised offensively Xeni Jardin

asteroids Another week, another warning from NASA about an asteroid headed our way March 3, 2020 Mark Frauenfelder

art These inflatable trousers are weird and cool Xeni Jardin

makers Meet the rocket scientist who invented the Super Soaker David Pescovitz

high school Japanese exchange student shares thoughts on high school's mushroom cloud mascot Mark Frauenfelder

Someone paid US$100,000 for the safety and arming plugs from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima David Pescovitz

Sex This children’s book on the miracle of life is very graphic and very anatomically correct Thom Dunn

climate change There's 22 million gallons of nuclear waste under a concrete dome on a Pacific Island, and it's sinking Thom Dunn

animation This dark and amazing animation about the end of humankind aired on Ed Sullivan in 1956 David Pescovitz

dinosaurs You can now enjoy a whiff of T. Rex's foul breath David Pescovitz

boom Using atom bombs to dig ditches: The 1965 comic-strip proposal Clive Thompson