slow motion Watch: A painful belly flop in slo-mo Rusty Blazenhoff

NASA Family of black holes Rob Beschizza

Talking comics with One Man War on Terror cartoonist Benjamin Marra Jeffery Klaehn

new york city A day in NY in the early 1980s through the eyes of musicians, artists, activists, filmmakers, and more Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets Become the author you always dreamed you'd be with this creative writing training Boing Boing's Shop

happy mutants Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments": a long-awaited Handmaid's Tale sequel fulfills its promise Cory Doctorow

animals French bulldog fell from six-story building and will be just fine! David Pescovitz

science fiction Exclusive excerpt of Rudy Rucker's new novel: Million Mile Road Trip Mark Frauenfelder

grinder That Capresso conical burr grinder Mark recommended is wonderful Jason Weisberger

electronics A bicycle snob takes on an e-bike Dave Tolnai

puzzles This is what 'going viral' looks like Rusty Blazenhoff

music THE BUREAU: Part Three, "Assessing Others" — with a Metasonix D-2000 Vacuum Tube Drum Machine Ethan Persoff

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

race Stanford prof Niall Ferguson conspired with campus Republicans to do oppo research on students who opposed invited eugenicist speaker Cory Doctorow

Kids Watch the insides of a firework explode in super slo-mo Andrea James

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

History My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing Rob Beschizza

picks I rode Amtrak's Coast Starlight the wrong direction. I still loved it. Jason Weisberger

fake news Stevie Wonder’s vision restored, O.J. Simpson’s hookers, and Hugh Hefner didn’t have to die, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic