native americans Relic from a shameful chapter of American history returned to the Dakota People by an anonymous donor Seamus Bellamy

activism Goodbye to the racist statue of Roosevelt and two people of color outside NYC's Natural History Museum David Pescovitz

Gadgets Your barista may be at home, but that doesn’t mean your coffee game should suffer Boing Boing's Shop

astronomy 139 new TNOs (trans-Neptunian objects) discovered while doing a dark energy survey Gareth Branwyn

Science Physicist Freeman Dyson's alien megastructure legacy David Pescovitz

Someone paid US$100,000 for the safety and arming plugs from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima David Pescovitz

Jesus Merry Christmas, someone stole Jesus's foreskin Thom Dunn

books The weird history of magical ways to protect your home David Pescovitz

illustration Interview with Kai Lan Egg, a Hong Kong protest artist who specializes in anime pro-democracy memes Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Sarah Pinsker's "Song for a New Day": outstanding dystopian rock-and-roll novel of rebellion and redemption Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Science fiction and the law: beyond mere courtroom drama Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Church of the Subgenius's Salvation Pack is the best $35 I ever spent Cory Doctorow

web theory Remembering the pre-Netscape browsers Cory Doctorow

scholarship Archaeological evidence for the Iron Age practice of embalming your enemies' severed heads with resin and displaying them Cory Doctorow

happy mutants An appreciation of the long-lost MP3 player skins of yesteryear Cory Doctorow

Weird Sweden: Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake where she and her dad were swimming Xeni Jardin

occult Touch Me Not, a surreal 18th century manual on how to raise the Devil, and then send him treasure hunting Gareth Branwyn

iraq Ancient relics swiped by Hobby Lobby are headed home to Iraq Seamus Bellamy

Games Meet vintage videogaming's archivist extraordinaire David Pescovitz

movies Sphinx head discovered in California desert David Pescovitz