In this video, a dead fish is used to tease a Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) into revealing its vicious skill as an ambush predator. Fortunately, it's all happening underwater, far away from me.
Sandworms are real
Scientists baked sourdough with yeast from a 5,300-year-old mummy
Ötzi the Iceman died in the Alps roughly 5,300 years ago, and researchers have now used yeast recovered from his frozen body to bake sourdough bread. According to Smithsonian magazine,… READ THE REST
Six American habits that baffle the French
Kimberly Wheeler moved her family from California to Aix-en-Provence three years ago, and she keeps getting the same small reaction from French neighbors: a furrowed brow, a soft "bfff," a… READ THE REST
Scrandle turns stadium food into a daily taste test
An eternity and a half ago, I wrote about Footy Scran, a growing database of the most appetizing (or not) food served at stadiums across the world. If you're going… READ THE REST
A popular platform is making it easier to read in your spare time, and it's only $70 for life
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Headway is a mobile app that condenses fiction and non-fiction books into quick summaries, and it's only… READ THE REST
This is the $60 Montessori-inspired kids' app that won't leave you feeling guilty afterward
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: For $59.99 (reg. $250), Pok Pok gives your family lifetime access to an award-winning educational app designed to… READ THE REST
PDFs fill you with dread? Save yourself the stress with a PDF reader
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Stop fearing your PDFs! Easily edit, convert, annotate, and master your PDFs with this license to PDF… READ THE REST
