mit The MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award: $250K for "disobedience for the benefit of society" Cory Doctorow

Space Truck-size asteroid will pass extraordinarily close to Earth today David Pescovitz

tabletop gaming Will player boycotts hurt the forthcoming D&D movie? Gareth Branwyn

lifestyles of the rich and hideous Free ports are places where the ultra-rich store their art antiquities to avoid tax and duties Mark Frauenfelder

movies Honest trailers dig their fangs into Snakes on a Plane Devin Nealy

adorable creatures Watch naked mole rats in action! Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets This refurbished iPad is on sale for a discount Boing Boing's Shop

very stable geniuses MAGA snowflakes triggered by Pink Floyd's new logo Mark Frauenfelder

CNN gives racist Disney fans airtime Jason Weisberger

Boing Boing Gadgets Keep your devices and appliances running with this portable power station Boing Boing's Shop

insurrectionists Man who propped his legs on Nancy Pelosi's desk on Jan 6 found guilty Carla Sinclair

Japan Ashamed aide to Japan's PM apologizes after putting hands in his pockets while in U.S. (video) Carla Sinclair

Food Japanese whaling company stocking vending machines with whale snacks to spur appropriately-declining demand David Pescovitz

animals Seriously huge-ass toad found in Australia Thom Dunn

santa claus 10-year-old asks for a DNA test on a cookie allegedly bitten by Santa to prove if he's real or not Rusty Blazenhoff

Watch it The trailer for Polite Society is a gift to all action fans Devin Nealy

racism Florida Governor DeSantis blocks African American Studies AP class in high schools David Pescovitz

HDSF Meet the Space Bum, ambiguous stock character of generations of science fiction Jesse Sheidlower

sharks Twelve-year-old goes fishing, reels in great white shark (video) David Pescovitz

History English commoners' rights come from The Charter of the Forest, not the Magna Carta Elías Villoro