france Crows being trained to pick up trash at French park Rusty Blazenhoff

COVID-19 Quadruped robot patrols sidewalks to urge social distancing David Pescovitz

music Meet Chico, the parrot that sings Beyonce and Lady Gaga David Pescovitz

Gadgets This innovative training device can help you pick up a ukulele and start playing right now Boing Boing's Shop

coronavirus U.S. sets record high COVID cases for 3 days in a row, nearly 69,000 new cases today Xeni Jardin

Science Tropical Storm Fay imaged by NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Xeni Jardin

short 'Tokri,' a gorgeous stop-motion short 8 years in the making Rusty Blazenhoff

tabletop games Solo roleplaying a Thousand Year Old Vampire Gareth Branwyn

News SUV plows into BLM protest in NYC's Times Square, similar potentially deadly attacks happening around U.S. Xeni Jardin

drugs Watch Jeanette go from pills to reefer to heroin in this 1961 anti-drug film Andrea James

Science Watch how crowdsourced citizen data demonstrated how tornadoes form Andrea James

animals Photo of a freaky human-sized bat David Pescovitz

auctions What it's like at America's school for auctioneers David Pescovitz

racism Sacha Baron Cohen trolls conservative rally with racist sing-along Rusty Blazenhoff

Spoken Word with Electronics For triggers, gates, clocks, and sociopaths alike, "Master/Slave" faces retirement Ethan Persoff

punk rock Celebrate Emma Goldman's birthday (belatedly) with this radical song Thom Dunn

Games Bernband: explore a looming yet intimate alien city Rob Beschizza

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

#deletefacebook How Ben Shapiro exploits Facebook's networks of "racial bias, religious bigotry, and violence" to reach a huge audience Mark Frauenfelder

books Please don't microwave your library books David Pescovitz