Science New sensor pill like a "Fitbit" you can swallow to monitor your stomach David Pescovitz

robots Researchers demonstrate edible origami robot David Pescovitz

medicine The "psychobiome" is bacteria in your gut that affects how you think and act David Pescovitz

stop motion animation 11 minutes of garbage, flesh, mastication, digestion, eructation, and decay Mark Frauenfelder

drugs A Korean bodybuilder describes how years of steroid use messed up his body Mark Frauenfelder

Science "Catching up" on lost sleep may actually do more harm than good David Pescovitz

animation Animator Cyriak has indigestion Rob Beschizza

Science Future astronaut food could taste like shit Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants Modelling Borges's Library of Babel in Sketchup Cory Doctorow

psychology Circuitry found linking cerebral cortex to body's stress response Dan Ruderman

dada 100 years of Dada: today is the centenary of Hugo Ball's Dada Manifesto Hugo Ball

books Walt Whitman was into paleo and wrote a “Manly Health and Training” guide with sex tips Xeni Jardin

politics Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Where Does All That Mucus Come From?: Teaching Kids About How Their Bodies Work Maris Wicks

ESP Drawings from "thought transference" experiment (1885) Mark Frauenfelder

Breakfast: the most important meal of the day? Gastropod

Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self Mark Dery

marijuana Everything you need to know about marijuana edibles Xeni Jardin

Aphid Shit is the Good Shit Kelly Kittell