books Classic Science Fiction: 'Day of the Triffids' is dated but haunting Jason Weisberger

History Website all about eating utensils David Pescovitz

Gadgets Are you cut out to be a COVID-19 stay-at-home teacher for your kids? Maybe these DIY projects can help. Boing Boing's Shop

radiation There's a new radiation-eating fungus strand growing at Chernobyl Thom Dunn

fake news CIA helped Hitler hide after WWII, Prince Harry’s real dad, and Freddie Mercury’s secret son, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business Bunnie Huang's tour-de-force explanation of how hardware implants and supply chain hacks work Cory Doctorow

fake news Glenn Miller’s death plane, Robert Durst’s cannibal appetites, and exploding heads in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

booze Hard boozing raccoons mistakenly thought to be rabid Seamus Bellamy

designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

The 1995 Anime “Ghost in the Shell” is more relevant than ever in today’s technologically complex society Andrew D Maynard

happy mutants Adventure House: the sequel to the Haunted Mansion that never was Cory Doctorow

yikes TIL: Camels can eat long-needled cactus Rusty Blazenhoff

geoengineering Supercharging farm-soil to hoover up atmospheric carbon Clive Thompson

dinosaurs 10 things you’ll be surprised to learn about dinosaurs Mark Frauenfelder

Culture Norway increased its whaling quota for no good reason Seamus Bellamy

Science Placing other people's poop in your person is a piss-poor plan Seamus Bellamy

Science Future astronaut food could taste like shit Seamus Bellamy

security New Consumers Union report catalogs the potential collateral damage from the crypto wars Cory Doctorow

Copyfight One of the net's most important freedom canaries died the day the W3C greenlit web-wide DRM; what can we learn from the fight? Cory Doctorow

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein