art German artists stage a quirky performance for passing trains Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets The Trainz Railroad Simulator will make you feel like a master of the rails Boing Boing's Shop

ducks Award-winning duck eats yeast, explodes, and blinds a man Thom Dunn

Gadgets Tangiplay is the children's game so fun that kids don’t realize they’re learning to code Boing Boing's Shop

Disney The voice actor behind Disney's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad looked the part Rusty Blazenhoff

DIY Aquascape railroad is a very cool aquarium design project Xeni Jardin

Nature Moose stuck on railroad bridge gets rescued, relocated, without any major injuries Xeni Jardin

steam power Russian man making own steam train, and tracks, to enjoy in back yard Rob Beschizza

History Public cemeteries as a precondition for the sale of land John Struan

racism Hollywood exec wanted to cast Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman Rob Beschizza

11-foot-8 Watch how the 11foot8 bridge is being raised by 8 inches Mark Frauenfelder

china Authenticating a video showing hundreds of kneeling people in shackles and blindfolds on a Chinese railroad platform Cory Doctorow

movies Trailer for new Harriet Tubman biopic David Pescovitz

11-foot-8 Here's the video for crash #147 at the 11foot8 bridge Mark Frauenfelder

Business Structural Separation: antitrust's tried-and-true weapon for monopolists who bottleneck markets Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Watch a rusted flea-market lamp get lovingly restored Rob Beschizza

politics How a 13-year-old boy was radicalized by the alt-right, then figured out they were full of it Rob Beschizza

Democrats The DCCC is sabotaging Marie Newman's primary challenge to Dan Lipiniski, a hereditary, anti-choice, anti-minimum-wage, homophobic "Democrat" Cory Doctorow

music Spotify's antitrust complaint against Apple is a neat parable about Big Tech's monopoly Cory Doctorow