Machinery Extremely epic video shows how pencils are made Rob Beschizza

Machinery Industrial machine is very good at kicking out green tomatoes Mark Frauenfelder

Food Dangerous farm equipment used to make corn meal Mark Frauenfelder

video These giant contraptions can tie up pine trees as tall as 35 feet Andrea James

video These inertia friction welding videos are sooooo satisfying Andrea James

video Hypnotic videos of high-tech tractors Andrea James

family How Machines Work: Zoo Break! – An interactive book of building machinery and moving gears Wink

Gadgets No programming skills? No design experience? GameGuru can still help create some bonkers video games Boing Boing's Shop

micronations Sealand's caretakers Rob Beschizza

politics One of the last conservative Democrats in congress loses primary to progressive opponent Rob Beschizza

oligarchy What the late, great James Connolly got right about socialism and oligarchies Thom Dunn

dna Scientists have successfully performed CRISPR gene editing in a live human body for the first time ever Thom Dunn

History The History Guy explores our 5,000 year love affair with chocolate Gareth Branwyn

Comic Books Fascinating video about comic book inker, Vince Colletta, the man some claim ruined Jack Kirby's art Gareth Branwyn

politics American Dirt was too big to fail Rob Beschizza

DIY New demand for very old farm tractors specifically because they're low tech David Pescovitz

art The gothic sculptures of Jason Stieva Rob Beschizza

parody Musicians turn Drumpf's Fisher-Price presidential memo into "Morrissey" and "Ramones" tunes Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets This electrical engineering training will help you with those at home repairs Boing Boing's Shop

scholarship #NoTechForICE: Calling on ACM to cancel Palantir's sponsorship of the first ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law Cory Doctorow