texas Witness the amazing beginnings of a 10,000-year clock build in this timelapse Rusty Blazenhoff

Games Call of Duty shrugs, reheats its leftovers with Black Ops remaster Grant St. Clair

History Japan's greatest sword was surrendered to a US sergeant in 1946. Nobody knows where it is. Ellsworth Toohey

History Sid Caesar built the writers' room that taught Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen how to be funny Ellsworth Toohey

Science A new book, Poking the Squid, tells the scandalous, salacious truth about animal sex, in comics form Ruben Bolling

Science The Vatican has run an astronomical observatory since 1774 Ellsworth Toohey

History Grandpa Pudding Brains announces another Treaty of Versailles Jason Weisberger

gadgets HP 16c programmer's calculator returns in collectible form Rob Beschizza

robots Robots can kung fu, but can they summit Everest? Gail Sherman

mergers and acquisitions Fox buys the henhouse Jason Weisberger

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

television Larry David's new HBO show is basically historical Curb Grant St. Clair

News Washington Post sued over alleged surveillance pricing Séamus Bellamy

Boing Boing Gadgets Turn your desk into a 4K workstation with this iMac for under $350 Boing Boing's Shop

Dementia Don Grandpa Pudding Brains set to invade Washington, D.C. Jason Weisberger

gaming Steam is killing physical gift cards to cut off scammers Grant St. Clair

garden Tomatoes do not need to die on the vine for flavor Jason Weisberger

Republicans MAGA Mike is sneaking around your Social Security Jason Weisberger

war Iran has American theme bars because people are better than governments Jason Weisberger