Space Last night's massive boom over Puget Sound was likely exploding meteor David Pescovitz

Spoken Word with Electronics Sound Design: How to Make Your Home Into Eraserhead or 2001: A Space Odyssey Ethan Persoff

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Gadgets These earplugs are engineered to save your hearing without messing with your music Boing Boing's Shop

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farts Fart noises disrupt Snooker Masters Finals: "Not very funny at all" Rusty Blazenhoff

Weird North Carolina couple call cops on midnight intruder that turns out to be their robot vacuum Xeni Jardin

Machinery Extremely epic video shows how pencils are made Rob Beschizza

conspiracies Birds Aren't Real Rob Beschizza

music Child with nonverbal autism surprises mom by singing 'Old Town Road' Xeni Jardin

christ what an asshole Mooing NZ opposition leader denies making "barnyard noise" Cory Doctorow

airplane food A video that explains why airplane food sucks – and it doesn't have to do with cost Carla Sinclair

music THE BUREAU: Part Five, "The President Has Been Shot!" — with an RF Nomad Shortwave Radio Receiver Ethan Persoff

robots Dancing robot dog Rob Beschizza

Science Those weird sonic attacks at U.S. embassies? Microwave weapons, experts say. Xeni Jardin

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A book about my favorite graphic designers, House Industries Mark Frauenfelder

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David Tennant David Tennant basically recorded ASMR for cats and dogs Caroline Siede