Ars Technica health reporter Beth Mole (previously) is a national treasure, and nowhere is her background in biology and science communications on better display than when she is puncturing the… Read the rest of the article: Ars Technica's dunk on Gwyneth Paltrow's Netflix series is the best dunk of all
South Dakota's HB 1057 ("The Vulnerable Child Protection Act") was introduced by Rep Fred Deutsch [R-04/605-882-3323/@freddeutsch/<a href="mailto:Fred.Deutsch@sdlegislature.govFred.Deutsch@sdlegislature.gov] on Tuesday with 40 cosponors, fast-tracked for a vote on Friday. It makes… Read the rest of the article: Fast-tracked South Dakota bill will felonize doctors who offer gender-confirmation therapy to trans kids
The "Barnacle" is a networked car-immobilizer that parking guards stick over the windshield of your illegally parked car; you pay the fine online and the Barnacle gets an over-the-air signal… Read the rest of the article: Inventive students detach IoT car-immobilizers, use their SIMs to power free wifi hotspots
Environmental writer Emma Marris (author of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World) offers a five-step process in the New York Times for confronting the climate crisis without being… Read the rest of the article: Five steps for thinking about climate change without being overwhelmed by hopelessness
Lee Steffen's glorious Twitter thread about "the ten types of movies" (as determined by similarities in their poster art is quite the little design project, building on similar work from… Read the rest of the article: The ten types of movie: orange and blue, sexy legs, blurry cop…
Some American conspiracy theorists believe (incorrectly) that the US inherited the entire body of English common-law prior to the American Revolution, including the law allowing litigants to demand trial by… Read the rest of the article: American conspiracy theorists keep insisting on their right to trial by combat
Update: an earlier version of this article had the relationship between the ads and the videos reversed. We regret the error Some of Youtube's most expensive advertising is being run… Read the rest of the article: Major brands' ads are showing up on climate deniers' Youtube videos
In Hong Kong, the protracted pro-democracy uprising has triggered a local economic recession, especially as businesses and Hong Kongers seek to boycott mainland Chinese businesses and products.
Now that many online services rely on sending SMSes to your phone to authenticate your identify, thieves and stalkers have created a whole "SIM swap" industry where they defraud your… Read the rest of the article: Carriers ignore studies that show they suck at preventing SIM-swap attacks
Under Missouri House Bill 2044 — the "Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act" — each town will elect a committee of five local people (librarians are not permitted to serve)… Read the rest of the article: Bill from Missouri's Rep Ben Baker threatens librarians with prison sentences for allowing minors to read books banned by town committees
Capitalism has a foundational dependence on auditors — outside entities who evaluate companies' claims about their financial state so that investors, suppliers and customers can understand whether to trust the… Read the rest of the article: Court case lays bare KPMG's crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets
If you or someone you know is a US-based student interested in attending conferences such as Investigative Reporters and Editors, The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, or National Association of… Read the rest of the article: Propublica offering diversity scholarships for students to attend 2020 journalism conferences
Last year, McMansion Hell (previously) inaugurated its annual gingerbread McMansion competition, inviting America's bakers to challenge themselves to build the largest, most ostentatious, most ill-conceived McMansion in gingerbread form.
Slate compiled a list of the 30 most evil companies in tech, starting with Mspy (#30) all the way up to Amazon (#1). I weighed in on Oracle (#17, "It… Read the rest of the article: Rating the 30 most evil tech companies
After a late-December Washington Post story revealed a nationwide epidemic of colleges quietly installing pervasive wireless location-tracking systems on campus, which gathered data on students without meaningful consent, inside and… Read the rest of the article: Security expert offers hacking advice to students whose campuses have implemented pervasive wireless surveillance
The Whitefield Academy is a "Christ-centered, college-preparatory school for grades PreK-12 fostering a passion for learning, others ahead of self, and the living and active Jesus." That is to say,… Read the rest of the article: Kentucky's Whitefield Academy expels student for wearing a rainbow shirt in a Facebook photo
Celebrate the new decade with a $22 Lil Dumpster Fire figurine so that you can gaze upon your immortal petrochemical chum and recall fondly the days when the dumpster fire… Read the rest of the article: Lil Dumpster Fire vinyl figurine
Nathaniel Stern writes, "The World After Us: Imaging techno-aesthetic futures (Flickr set) is an art exhibition that asks, 'What will — and what can — happen to our gadgets over… Read the rest of the article: Art installation uses science to age e-waste in geological time
A Boing Boing reader and superfan who wishes to remain anonymous is auctioning of an amazing collection of Disneyana with Potter & Potter: "Lots of original silk-screened park posters, Castmember… Read the rest of the article: Massive auction of Disney rarities
For decades, the "bystander effect" (previously) has been a bedrock of received psychological wisdom: "individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present; the… Read the rest of the article: You will be helped! Research using real-world situations fails to replicate the "bystander effect"
