Black List Archives - Boing Boing

Entertainment This year's Black List is up — which screenplay will be plucked from obscurity? Jamie Frevele

Science T-Rex leather handbag failed to sell at auction for $500k Gail Sherman
Culture The first Tarzan pulp sold for $58,560 at a record-setting auction Ellsworth Toohey
Science How Claude Shannon used his wife as a language model in 1950 Ellsworth Toohey
Francis Cadell painting bought for $100 in thrift store fetches more than $250,000 at auction Rob Beschizza
Technology A reader built a breed-aware app for hot-pavement dog safety Ellsworth Toohey
it does a body good Nearly 60 Idahoans get a quick lesson in the joys of pasteurization Jason Weisberger
spies U.S. using GPS to tell spies what to do Séamus Bellamy
Science A satellite has been jamming GPS over Europe Ellsworth Toohey
Science New solar-power desalination device leaves no brine Ellsworth Toohey
Technology This phone died mid-shot and made a weirdly beautiful photo Popkin
literature Granta published a likely AI-written story as a prize finalist Ellsworth Toohey
History On one night in 1888, tens of thousands of English sheep fled their fields at once Ellsworth Toohey
Science These 100-year-old flounder photos look like abstract design studies Popkin
iran Cuba is bracing for a U.S. invasion Séamus Bellamy
art Store Called Store is a shoppable art installation in Brooklyn Popkin
Weird Caracas has a mysterious black highway goo that has killed 1,800 people Ellsworth Toohey
politics How 1925 press dismissed the Klan at peak power Ellsworth Toohey
erase racism 'The hood is off': Virginia Republican steps onto America's most obvious rhetorical landmine Jason Weisberger
Food 9 ways to stretch your food budget when SNAP benefits get cut Ellsworth Toohey