winter The frozen houses of Lake Erie Gareth Branwyn

picks Hurricane Hermine to Hit Florida's Gulf Coast with 'Life Threatening' Force Xeni Jardin

robots The Slothbot is a slow-moving, energy-efficient observation robot that's also an adorable sloth Thom Dunn

Energy Floatovoltaics are a cool way to super-charge your solar panels with water Thom Dunn

Gadgets Your face mask is you so it better say something and maybe these 20 masks will speak to (and for) you Boing Boing's Shop

psychology Tips from a fellow who has been social distancing for 50 years David Pescovitz

Gadgets Trump's immigration enforcement agents use cellphone location data to track individuals for detention – WSJ Xeni Jardin

noaa New FOIA'd emails reveal the chaos behind the scenes of the National Weather Service's #SharpieGate Thom Dunn

News How icy is Chicago? Salt truck slips into Lake Michigan Xeni Jardin

spiders Mating season for Bay Area tarantulas just got longer Thom Dunn

dogs Very long dog is adorable Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Rule of Capture: Inside the martial law tribunals that will come when climate deniers become climate looters and start rendering environmentalists for offshore torture Cory Doctorow

trump 'Hello(?)!' Trump solicits Kim Jong-Un over Twitter at G20 Xeni Jardin

national security Here's how hackers could hijack America's Wireless Emergency Alert system Xeni Jardin

surveillance Hong Kong's #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Announcing: the tour for "How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems," Randall "XKCD" Munroe's next book Cory Doctorow

class war The Pinkertons' plan for climate change: a mercenary army that guards one-percenters as the seas rise Cory Doctorow

global "waming" Grade school children explain climate change to Trump Carla Sinclair

fluoxetine Study: anti-depressants could lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria Seamus Bellamy

fake news Queen collapses, Stacy Peterson’s body found, Jennifer Aniston’s post-divorce hook-ups, and other news that never happened, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids. Peter Sheridan