body modification Enjoy these photos of lips injected with filler to give them a pointy look Mark Frauenfelder

video Watch traditional Cook Islands tattooing techniques Andrea James

Gadgets The Gimdow turns your dumb door into a smart lock Boing Boing's Shop

Sex Understanding the neuroscience of pleasure Mark Frauenfelder

nsa Ingenious Cold War keylogger the Russians used to bug Selectric typewriters in the US embassy David Pescovitz

Gadgets Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law Cory Doctorow

tabloids Royal sex & drug scandal, the Queen & Michael Douglas dying, and Miley Cyrus’s demonic possession, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Science A deep dive into how parasites hijack our behavior and how we evolved to resist them Cory Doctorow

health People with diabetes are scouring the internet for a discontinued insulin pump that can be reprogrammed as an "artificial pancreas" Cory Doctorow

tattoos From Bears Ears in Utah, a 2,000-year-old tattooing tool is rediscovered Xeni Jardin

politics Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposes gag order on Roger Stone, can no longer speak publicly about the investigation or case Xeni Jardin

designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

art Frighteningly strange high-heeled "skin shoes" now for sale David Pescovitz

nostradamus A 1968 book predicts life in the year 2018 Clive Thompson

cenobites More on the unreleased Coil soundtrack to Hellraiser, and where the Cenobite aesthetic came from Rob Beschizza