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drawing How to draw natural history specimens Mark Frauenfelder

Comic Books Talking Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics with Visionary Comic Book Creator Tom Scioli Jeffery Klaehn

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graphics Projector throws stable 1000fps image on a rough or moving surface Rob Beschizza

Games Tiny Islands, an addictive card-based island-drawing game Rob Beschizza

Gadgets 15 kitchen gadgets that will make prepping your next meal easier Boing Boing's Shop

climate Whales worth about $1 trillion in carbon sequestration, analysis finds Clive Thompson

Gadgets Why CRTs are great for modern video games Clive Thompson

art New Ways of Seeing: James Bridle's BBC radio show about networked digital tools in our "image-soaked culture" Cory Doctorow

puzzles How to get better at solving puzzles Mark Frauenfelder

Business Whistleblower: Amazon Ring stores your doorbell and home video feeds unencrypted and grants broad "unfettered" access to them Cory Doctorow

education US tax shortfalls have our public schools begging for donations Cory Doctorow

cool stuff This cool flashlight runs off of almost any battery you'll find in your home's junk drawer Seamus Bellamy

class war Puerto Rico is a tax-haven for rich mainlanders and is also too broke to survive hurricanes: are these facts possibly related, somehow? Cory Doctorow

Kids Watch PancakeBot 3D print a flapjack dinosaur Andrea James

happy mutants Debugging AI is a "hard problem" Cory Doctorow

News Train carrying GOP lawmakers crashes with trash truck, killing one and injuring others Xeni Jardin

football Trippy film flashes 2,000 aerial shots of football fields in three minutes Andrea James

toys This storytelling chart explains nothing about season 7 of Thrones Rob Beschizza