Anything can be an instrument Anything can be an instrument: Broken air con unit plays a jazz drum solo Rusty Blazenhoff

Science A star discovered in 2014 has exploded six times and none of the theories explain it Ellsworth Toohey

animal ASMR This giant anteater uses his dancing tongue to keep cool in the summer's sweltering heat Jennifer Sandlin

DIY Man supercharges a child's pink ride-on car, sends it flying Popkin

animals Lemur makes an alarming sound when communicating Popkin

politics New blue paint under Reflecting Pool already peeling Rob Beschizza

Science In 1986, a Cameroonian lake released a CO2 cloud that killed 1,746 people overnight Ellsworth Toohey

Safety Chicago storm hurls rooftop pool chairs into Lincoln Park traffic Popkin

politics Fed Chair Alan Greenspan intentionally babbled meaningless slop and got away with it Ellsworth Toohey

Boing Boing Gadgets Stop relying on Google Translate — Rosseta Stone can help you learn for real Boing Boing's Shop

History The turnspit dog was bred to run on a wheel and roast meat, then went extinct Ellsworth Toohey

History In 1810, a prankster sent 4,000 letters to flood one London address with chimney sweeps, coffins, and the Lord Mayor Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse Rob Beschizza

politics Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden Rob Beschizza

comic book villains Man who hates paying taxes loves government handouts Jason Weisberger

mergers and acquisitions Fox buys the henhouse Jason Weisberger

aviation A Navy blimp landed in San Francisco with its engines running and its crew gone Ellsworth Toohey

Space Two Italian brothers claimed to have recorded dying Soviet cosmonauts that Moscow erased from history Ellsworth Toohey

History Japanese officers cannibalized four American POWs on a Pacific island in 1944 Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Emojli was a social network where the only language allowed was emoji Ellsworth Toohey