biology Incredible microscope video of an otherworldly green algae colony David Pescovitz

Kids Watch how gross makeup looks at 1600x magnification Andrea James

photography Beautiful microscope photographs of drugs, legal and illegal: LSD, caffeine, GHB, meth, and more. Xeni Jardin

Games Fantasy worlds that break history's back Katherine Cross

art Computer finds faces in grains of sand David Pescovitz

useful stuff Photos and videos of bugs and stuff with my USB microscope Mark Frauenfelder

dinosaurs Largest known soft-shell reptile egg discovered in Antarctica Thom Dunn

electron microscopy Snapdragon seed pod under electron microscope Rob Beschizza

miniatures The tiny worlds of "micro-mechanician" Bill Robertson Gareth Branwyn

Science Scientists translate the novel coronavirus structure into beautiful music David Pescovitz

Science It's fun to watch tardigrades squirm around on Twitch, adorably Xeni Jardin

books I'm re-reading The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Enhance your on-the-go photography with these iPhone accessories Boing Boing's Shop

puppets Check out these awesomely creepy puppets of microbial creatures Thom Dunn

animals These are the bullets that killed JFK David Pescovitz

Science World's oldest leftovers found in Israel cave. Guess what food? Xeni Jardin

Technology This tiny robot bug can survive getting stepped on David Pescovitz

happy mutants Paul Di Filippo on Radicalized: "Upton-Sinclairish muckraking, and Dickensian-Hugonian ashcan realism" Cory Doctorow

useful stuff What's the difference a budget and a top-of-the-line precision steel rule? Mark Frauenfelder