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Gadgets Think you can’t draw? This package of expert training might just change your mind. Boing Boing's Shop

Science Coronavirus 'acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen,' say doctors Xeni Jardin

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

social distancing Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? I think I know Gareth Branwyn

makers Here's an updated list of initiatives to 3D-print masks and face shields for coronavirus health care workers Gareth Branwyn

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music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

nest Mattress shopping with a bad back Jason Weisberger

surveillance Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers Bill Budington

kickstarter Jane Metcalfe, co-founder NEO.LIFE, has a cool upcoming book Mark Frauenfelder

makers Video about making blacker-than-Vantablack pigment in a home lab Mark Frauenfelder

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week’s round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan

happy mutants After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg's YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! Cory Doctorow