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Science Watch how a heavy anvil floats in a vat of mercury Gareth Branwyn

zoology Paris zoo opens a new exhibit with an immortal mutant slime mold called "The Blob" Thom Dunn

blood Start-up injects old people with the blood of the young Jason Weisberger

writing tools The Writers' Co-op is a great new podcast about how to make your freelance writing career work Thom Dunn

evolution These volcano-dwelling snails are metal as hell, and also have iron shells. Thom Dunn

UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

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

animals Tessie and Binnie, the US Army's psychic dogs David Pescovitz

Book The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction Max Barry on how science fiction prepares us for the apocalypse Mark Frauenfelder

post-punk Who needs super powers when you have Kid Congo Powers? Gareth Branwyn

chemistry What is the world's foulest smell? It's called “U.S. Government Standard Bathroom Malodor” Mark Frauenfelder

art Art in the age of artifice Ferdinando Buscema

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

books William Gibson talks about scrapping and rewriting a novel after the 2016 Trump election Cory Doctorow

Robert Anton Wilson Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series Gareth Branwyn

corruption As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn't even been filed Cory Doctorow

Disney Talking about Disney's 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Minnesota Public Radio sent us one of the weirdest legal threats we've ever received (and they won't explain it) Cory Doctorow