health Wheelchairs could one day be a relic of the past thanks to this amazing discovery Seamus Bellamy

History Jayne Mansfield: Viral Warrior Matt Maranian

books In honor of today's LSD anniversary, a sale on The Family Acid: California David Pescovitz

Gadgets Save over 75% on lifetime subscriptions to Rosetta Stone, VPN Unlimited, and 12min Book Summary App Boing Boing's Shop

interviews Talking adventure games with Olivia Wood Jeffery Klaehn

ads That time a ninja turtle starred in pickle advertisement Rob Beschizza

cars Purposely stalling 20% of cars in Manhattan could trigger total gridlock David Pescovitz

facebook Possible detection of Sarin reported at Facebook facility in Menlo Park, 'no employees exposed,' may be false positive Xeni Jardin

youtube Google and YouTube executives ignored warnings on toxic video content, now we're all paying the price Xeni Jardin

ignorance is bliss Watch: Tourist in Australia picks up a "pretty octopus," not realizing he could die in minutes if stung Carla Sinclair

booze Hard boozing raccoons mistakenly thought to be rabid Seamus Bellamy

Weird Do you think that we're living in a simulation? David Pescovitz

cars Welcome to the grim new car-dependent exurban villages of housing-crisis Britain Rob Beschizza

Tylenol can "ward off existential dread of death and nothingness" Mark Frauenfelder

religion Interview: Dr. Karl E H Seigfried talks Ásatrú, Heathenry and beards Seamus Bellamy

videos Simone Giertz, queen of the shitty robots, has a brain tumor Cory Doctorow

video This short film gives a sense of how terrifying sleep paralysis can be Andrea James

late stage capitalism Daranide, a 1958 drug, used to be free – now it costs your insurer at least $109,500/year Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tim O'Reilly's WTF? A book that tells us how to keep the technology baby and throw out the Big Tech bathwater Cory Doctorow

futility closet In 1944 hysteria swept Mattoon, Illinois, as residents reported a paralyzing gas being sprayed into their bedrooms Futility Closet