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We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include: • Lessig's TED talk on fighting… Read the rest of the article: Watch the latest video posts in our Boing Boing video archives

This week on the long-running PBS science program NOVA, a really cool four-part documentary on what the geological history of Australia can teach us about how the earth was formed.… Read the rest of the article: To watch: "NOVA—Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening"

The great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda has long been thought to have died of prostate cancer, but in recent years, his personal driver claims he was murdered by the Pinochet… Read the rest of the article: Remains of poet Pablo Neruda exhumed to determine if he was executed by Pinochet regime

"The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." — Henry A. Kissinger, US Secretary of State, March 10, 1975. Julian Assange today announced the launch of the… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks opens Public Library of US Diplomacy (PLUSD), searchable repository of 1970s US diplomatic and intel documents

A self-titled EP from Cross My Heart Hope To Die is out today on Alpha Pup Records. The music project is also an interactive art collective, with street art installations around the world.

Indian Star Tortoises. Photo: P.Tansom/TRAFFIC Authorities in Thailand made two big seizures of attempted tortoise smuggling at an airport this week. Hundreds of threatened tortoises were discovered, and they are… Read the rest of the article: Thailand: 13% of endangered tortoise species discovered in smuggler's bag at airport

"Mounting evidence shows that many people with dyslexia are highly creative, out-of-the-box thinkers, and neuroimaging studies demonstrate that their brains really do think differently." An interesting piece in the Wall… Read the rest of the article: How "workarounds" cause people with dyslexia to be more creative

Evan Viera's short explores the ambiguous reality inhabited by people experiencing psychosis, through the tale of a young girl suffering from mental illness.

A television company in Holland is seeking volunteers for a one-way trip to Mars.

"The Western press and social media often seem to exercise two options for dealing with the Muslim population of the world: overt, unabashed Islamophobia or slightly subtler Islamophobia," writes contributor… Read the rest of the article: How to write about Muslims

"History seems to have repeated itself. A group of scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg recently published a paper in which they sequenced the entire genome of… Read the rest of the article: Scientists not quite done ripping off Henrietta Lacks and family

There's a piece in the NYT by Somini Sengupta on how we are increasingly turning over our data online "in exchange for a deal we can't refuse." The story profiles… Read the rest of the article: How consumers let down their guard on web privacy

Image: "Unicorn Resting – A white unicorn rests under a bright star," by Catmando, for Shutterstock.

Rocket scientist Yvonne Brill honored by President Obama. (Courtesy of Ryan K. Morris/National Science & Technology Medals Foundation) Yvonne Brill, a Canadian rocket scientist who developed jet propulsion technologies, died… Read the rest of the article: Rocket scientist who also made "a mean beef stroganoff" inspires debate on how to write about lady-scientists

Noted crankypants Bob Garfield, co-host of On The Media, likens current consumers of (mostly free, readily-shared) online news to "looters" who "enjoy an improved standard of living." Writing in a… Read the rest of the article: Online journalism consumers are "looters"

As Anthony DeRosa of Reuters points out, Li'l Kim appears to be using Apple computer products in the most recent round of state propaganda photo campaign. Stop laughing, says The… Read the rest of the article: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Eun is a Mac Guy

"That's the stuff: Ralph The Cat," a photo by Darren Sethe of Portland, Oregon, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool.

Boing Boing reader @ayleph tweeted at us: "Fleetwood Mac's Rumors album cover, depicted in crayon. Found at Sonic Boom in Ballard." [that's Seattle, WA]. Click pic to grande-fy.

A Zumba aerobics dance instructor who ran a prostitution business on the side (while collecting welfare assistance) pleaded guilty in a Portland, ME court today. Alexis Wright's male business partner… Read the rest of the article: Maine Zumba instructor pleads guilty to prostitution charges