happy mutants A Gmail plugin to do "emotional labor" Cory Doctorow

Spoken Word with Electronics Sound Design: How to Make Your Home Into Eraserhead or 2001: A Space Odyssey Ethan Persoff

drugs Police just made history's biggest drug seizure: 15 tons worth US$1.12 billion David Pescovitz

Gadgets Here’s your Father’s Day Gift Guide…so you better choose wisely Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets The Rocketbook Fusion is the reusable notebook that marries the physical and digital worlds Boing Boing's Shop

Science A neuroscientist's take on synthetic telepathy, electrified ESP, and mind control David Pescovitz

Gadgets This smart notebook saves your scribbles with a simple scan of your SmartPhone Boing Boing's Shop

dinosaurs You can now enjoy a whiff of T. Rex's foul breath David Pescovitz

Technology Mobile phone covered with synthetic human skin Mark Frauenfelder

deepfakes This service makes a digital voice that sounds like you from a small audio sample Mark Frauenfelder

movies Storyboards, concept art, and more from Netflix's excellent new horror film In the Tall Grass John Struan

halloween Be Cousin Itt for Halloween with this hilariously hairy costume Rusty Blazenhoff

stop children what's that sound Digital hearing aids are producing sound as lousy as MP3s Clive Thompson

AI OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 dataset. Can it write fake news better than a human? Rob Beschizza

Science Find awe in the biology of these incredible leaping maggots David Pescovitz

california Fur industry paid protesters to attend California and New York hearings on a fur ban Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Karl Schroeder's "Stealing Worlds": visionary science fiction of a way through the climate and inequality crises Cory Doctorow

Business In 2008 "synthetic CDOs" destroyed the global economy, and now they're back Cory Doctorow

Environment Organic cotton shopping bags have to be used 20,000 times before they're better for the Earth than plastic disposables Cory Doctorow

Weird Mysterious bundles of hair turning up on Santa Barbara streets David Pescovitz