weapons Watch incredible restored footage of the first nuclear bomb detonation David Pescovitz

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

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

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

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

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

happy mutants Paul Di Filippo on Radicalized: "Upton-Sinclairish muckraking, and Dickensian-Hugonian ashcan realism" Cory Doctorow

art Magnificent crocheted human anatomical model David Pescovitz

the uncanny Bizarro Bazar keeps the world weird Ferdinando Buscema

perfect timing Denmark is 0.07 seconds behind the world Mark Frauenfelder

Science A teenage science geek's quest to collect every element on the periodic table David Pescovitz

fake news Glenn Miller’s death plane, Robert Durst’s cannibal appetites, and exploding heads in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan