puppets Watch 'What a Wonderful World' performed in hand shadows Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets From Star Wars to Borderlands, check out these Steam games at big savings Boing Boing's Shop

Comics "The Black Ghost" is a fun Latina twist on urban noir superheroes Thom Dunn

Sex Understanding the neuroscience of pleasure Mark Frauenfelder

tabletop games What's new in tabletop gaming (Indie edition) Gareth Branwyn

christ what an asshole "The Tragedy of the Commons": how ecofascism was smuggled into mainstream thought Cory Doctorow

china Authenticating a video showing hundreds of kneeling people in shackles and blindfolds on a Chinese railroad platform Cory Doctorow

Denise Nickerson, "Violet Beauregarde," RIP David Pescovitz

fun Watch this film of magical hand shadows from 1933 David Pescovitz

tabletop games Shadows: Amsterdam – a game where you guess what the other people are guessing about ambiguous pictures Jon Seagull

Copyfight The EU hired a company that had been lobbying for the Copyright Directive to make a (completely batshit) video to sell the Copyright Directive Cory Doctorow

Popping a balloon in a nuclear power plant's cooling tower Rob Beschizza

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Cat Wishes: a picture book about being a wish come true Cory Doctorow

music Mark Dery visits the "David Bowie is" exhibit David Pescovitz

happy mutants 2017 Hugo nominees announced Cory Doctorow

NASA How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record Ron Barry

eclipse My hand shadows looked weird during the eclipse Mark Frauenfelder

Science 'You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse,' says science writer David Baron Rusty Blazenhoff

picks "I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you." Mark Frauenfelder