Science Entertaining science for stoned people Jason Weisberger

How to make a ramp walker from pizza boxes Mark Frauenfelder

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

happy mutants Look kids, it's a tour of the 1951 A.C. Gilbert Radioactive Atomic Energy Lab Kit, now with seven sources of radiation! Gareth Branwyn

happy mutants Library Socialism: a utopian vision of a sustaniable, luxuriant future of circulating abundance Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Podcast of Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow

Copyfight "Affordances": a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow

zoology Paris zoo opens a new exhibit with an immortal mutant slime mold called "The Blob" Thom Dunn

art A lovely film of spinning tops by Charles and Ray Eames David Pescovitz

makers Thinking back on the special magic of Make: and Maker Faire Gareth Branwyn

science demonstrations How to make some cool balancing toys Mark Frauenfelder

gender Tavi Gevinson is folding up Rookie, after seven years: part mediapocalypse, part moving on Cory Doctorow

lego Researchers got 6 people to eat Lego heads and then search for the toys in their poop Carla Sinclair

happy mutants Scenes from the Bangalore Literature Festival Jasmina Tesanovic

authors Fear and Soldering, an excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Strange Frequencies Gareth Branwyn

Sex "World's Largest Orgy" no longer hosted at Las Vegas Embassy Suites, but it's still on, now with more science David Pescovitz

movies New trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story…. I have a bad feeling about this. Seamus Bellamy

Business Private equity killed big box retailers, leaving empty big boxes across America, and architects have plans Cory Doctorow

spiral scratch Why vinyl LPs are better than CDs and MP3s Mark Frauenfelder