death Doctors diagnose the bad guys' injuries in 'Home Alone' Rusty Blazenhoff

music NirvanA.I.: This bot wrote a Nirvana song David Pescovitz

kitchen tools Sharp knives are better at slicing tomatoes because there's more friction between the blade and the tomato skin Mark Frauenfelder

coronavirus Pandemic has created a shortage in CO2, needed for water supply and to produce fresh food, preserved food and beverages Mark Frauenfelder

movies Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits David Pescovitz

Funny Funny animated doodle: 'Bird with Arms' Xeni Jardin

tricks One mundane trick to organize nails Rob Beschizza

Business US charges 4 Chinese spies with hacking Equifax Xeni Jardin

happy mutants After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg's YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! Cory Doctorow

Gadgets This Device Turns Your iPhone Into a High-Quality Audio Recorder Boing Boing's Shop

intellectual property Nike really wants Skechers to stop "Skecherizing" its designs John Struan

music Neil Young hates what the internet has done to music Xeni Jardin

videos Weird video of an entire day of security footage superimposed and compressed into two minutes David Pescovitz

music Chuck Klosterman on space rock David Pescovitz

gift guide Coffee cups made from coffee grounds Cory Doctorow

Science Astonishing X-ray image of the whole sky David Pescovitz

plumbing Video collection: drains unblocked Rob Beschizza

Technology Exquisitely engineered "soft" robotic arm is powered by air David Pescovitz

web theory Open dataset of 1.78b links from the public web, 2016-2019 Cory Doctorow

human rights Using statistics to estimate the true scope of the secret killings at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group