cats A quick lesson on the best way to give a cat a pill (can it really be this easy?) Carla Sinclair

Spider-Man Bolivian brothers let a black widow bite them all in hopes of getting superpowers Thom Dunn

sponsored It's Time for Silicon Valley To Finish Its Job of Disrupting the Racist Drug War Boing Boing

Science We are all part of the biggest psychological experiment in history David Pescovitz

mistakes The greatest moment in the history of conservative comedy Rob Beschizza

Gadgets 30 items on sale for Memorial Day that'll improve your home and beyond Boing Boing's Shop

coronavirus New coronavirus symptom found mostly in young people: painful 'covid toes' Carla Sinclair

coronavirus This free informational children's book will help you explain coronavirus to your kids Thom Dunn

drugs Throw away any Zantac you have around David Pescovitz

tabloids A beheaded tot, isolated stars, and cure coronavirus with herbs, in last week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

coronavirus WHO on Coronavirus: 'Test, test, test. Test every suspected case' Xeni Jardin

mistakes Beach towel pulled from hungry snake Rob Beschizza

Food Olive Oil in 'Mediterranean diet,' not so much red wine, linked to longer lifespan in new study Xeni Jardin

Science This newly discovered cannabis compound is possibly 30 times more powerful than THC David Pescovitz

contagion FDA warns Purell to back off hand sanitizer germ-killing claims Rob Beschizza

health China facing 'grave situation' as Wuhan virus deaths increase, Xi says Xeni Jardin

kickstarter Jane Metcalfe, co-founder NEO.LIFE, has a cool upcoming book Mark Frauenfelder

coronavirus Wuhan woman boasts about beating coronavirus check so she could fly to Paris for Michelin-star meal Mark Frauenfelder

drugs A sober look at kratom, a psychoactive plant that has many claimed benefits, and has also inspired a moral panic Cory Doctorow

corruption Doctors who take pharma industry freebies prescribe more of their benefactors' drugs Cory Doctorow