video Watch hypnotic egg-breaking machines for ten minutes Andrea James

Gadgets Here’s a truckload of Mother’s Day options for the Mom who loves her kitchen Boing Boing's Shop

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

Business Coronavirus outbreak leads to beef production cuts at Cargill plant in Canada that supplies McDonald's patties Xeni Jardin

evolution Some wasps have evolved to recognize and remember faces Thom Dunn

Science A 1953 colloquium pondered the question "Did Man Once Live By Beer Alone?" Clive Thompson

administrative cruelty After ICE raid, children left homeless and without food Mark Frauenfelder

trump ICE arrests 680 workers at Mississippi food processing plants Xeni Jardin

censorship How Wechat censors images in private chats Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Netherlands court strikes down Dutch grifter's patent claim over Ethiopia's ancient staple grain teff Cory Doctorow

canada My life on the road: A lost passport, no ID, and bullshit paperwork trying to get back to Canada Seamus Bellamy

china USDA approves shipping slaughtered chicken to China and back, says you can eat it Jason Weisberger

happy mutants Garbage In, Garbage Out: machine learning has not repealed the iron law of computer science Cory Doctorow

Sex "Dirty jokes" found in Anne Frank's diary Rusty Blazenhoff

Britain's KFCs just ran out of chickens Seamus Bellamy

Environment Meat industry runoff has created a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico Andrea James

music William Onyeabor, Nigerian funk music pioneer, RIP David Pescovitz

Business White House report documents the "hidden fees" that pick America's pockets Cory Doctorow

the future In the future you will own nothing and have access to everything Kevin Kelly

picks Some U.S. poultry factory workers wear diapers at work because they're denied bathroom breaks Xeni Jardin