Technology Today's scares over smartphones are largely indistinguishable from yesterday's technology-driven moral panics Cory Doctorow

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fish New study: Fish can get addicted to meth after eating human poop Thom Dunn

brown noise New York Times on the "cult of brown noise" aficionados Mark Frauenfelder

Weird How did they party in ancient Sparta? Devin Nealy

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diablo Diablo Immortal: classic action RPG comes to mobile as a pay-to-win microtransaction hell Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets Experience The Benefits Of A Sauna From The Comfort Of Home With An Infrared Sauna Blanket Boing Boing's Shop

psychology It's possible to "think" yourself to death David Pescovitz

muppets The most convincing argument for a Muppet version of The Lord of the Rings Thom Dunn

Food English baker caught using illegal sprinkles smuggled from the US Thom Dunn

music A.I. turns the Spice Girls' "Wannabe" into a Nine Inch Nails song David Pescovitz

life hacks How to stop procrastinating by making any kind of work interesting Mark Frauenfelder

My life on the road My Life on the Road: Metrics and Mindfulness Séamus Bellamy

archaeology Prehistoric cave painters may have been hallucinating due to lack of oxygen David Pescovitz

tips Hot damn! This is how to open a bag of charcoal briquettes Mark Frauenfelder

knives An attempt to master a new garlic-peeling technique Clive Thompson

psychology A game designer explains the success of QAnon, in terms of game design Thom Dunn

video games This free online game claims to "inoculate" you against disinformation by teaching you how it works Thom Dunn