rick astley Rick Astley and Blossoms cover The Smiths in secret set at Glastonbury Festival Rusty Blazenhoff

Japan Japanese town cancels cherry blossom festival after tourists defecate in residents' gardens Ellsworth Toohey

Boing Boing Gadgets Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's a micro-ecological air purifier! Boing Boing's Shop

comedy Unsurprisingly, Walton Goggins killed it on SNL Grant St. Clair

dog Robot Dreams will probably break your heart Gail Sherman

ai-generated content Watch the trailer for the first fully AI-generated RomCom, coming soon from TV manufacturer TCL Thom Dunn

plants An afterlife for beloved DC cherry tree Stumpy Carolyn Townsend

Entertainment Voyagers is a forthcoming film about Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's romance making the Voyager Golden Record David Pescovitz

music Tempe band Gin Blossoms to be honored by city Jennifer Sandlin

diversity Jill Biden sorry for praising Latino culture by referencing bodegas and breakfast tacos David Pescovitz

musicals Rent opened on Broadway 26 years ago today Devin Nealy

flowers Stunning psychedelic timelapse of blooming cactus flowers Mark Frauenfelder

tokyo olympics Horses spooked by sumo wrestler statue at equestrian Olympic event Kevin Reome

Rosemary Leary describes her life as a psychedelic pioneer and her decades as a fugitive Mark Frauenfelder

plants By the pricking of my thumbs, Solanum lycopersicum this way comes Jason Weisberger

Green Meanwhile, the container garden continues towards its ultimate purpose Jason Weisberger

garden Look at all these lemons on this recently planted tree Jason Weisberger

climate change Extreme weather has caused Japan cherry blossoms to bloom in fall, when it's supposed to be in the spring Carla Sinclair

Kids Lovely drone footage of a boat trip through a sea of lotuses Andrea James

Science Skeleton Flower turns transparent in the rain David Pescovitz