Technology Scientists generate electricity from shadows David Pescovitz

Gadgets Luminar 4 uses AI to help you turn all your photos into masterpieces Boing Boing's Shop

explainers Amazing explainer websites Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Suit up for the ultimate summer camping trip with these essential items Boing Boing's Shop

News Meet Rahul Dubey, 'absolute legend' who sheltered ~70 protestors inside his home for 8 hours overnight Xeni Jardin

Gadgets In the ingenious game Lightmatter, lights do matter…because the shadows will kill you Boing Boing's Shop

lighting Mitsubishi's new fake skylights use color changing LEDs and cost $7000 David Pescovitz

tabloids Royal brawl in palace, Brad & Jen’s reunion, and 2020 predictions in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Science How to (maybe) see the Leonid meteor shower before dawn on Monday David Pescovitz

travel This #vanlife is not all it is cracked up to be Jason Weisberger

happy mutants The lost audiobooks of Roger Zelazny reading the Chronicles of Amber Cory Doctorow

music Seattle mainstay musician Shawn Smith of Brad, Satchel, and Pigeonhed, RIP David Pescovitz

lynn freer turner Lynn Freer Turner's wild, whimsical, and sometimes absurd paintings Jason Weisberger

mobile Leak reveals that hundreds of bounty hunters have had access to super-fine-grained mobile location data for years Cory Doctorow

surveillance The ACLU made the Border Patrol reveal its terrifying legal theories Cory Doctorow

Kids 'Toddler Star Wars Lightsaber' fight, now with Dramatic Sound Xeni Jardin

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

Art and Design Artist David Henry Nobody Jr. on how impersonating a wealthy Trump fan "kind of drove me insane" Sarina Sinclair and Adam Gelbart

Science 'You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse,' says science writer David Baron Rusty Blazenhoff

books Chemist of Mysteries: Man Ray’s Dream Photos Mark Dery