History On this day, May 8th, 1933, Mahatma Gandhi started a hunger strike Devin Nealy

food science Food historian reveals how salt transformed civilizations and sparked Gandhi's rebellion Ellsworth Toohey

Science "My one great mistake": Einstein's atomic bomb letter comes to auction, expected to fetch $150,000 Ellsworth Toohey

mistakes Canadian man arrested with crocodile skull in Delhi airport Rob Beschizza

movies Weird Al's UHF gets a 4K release Rob Beschizza

DIY How music venues rip off bands for merch sales Thom Dunn

qanon shaman QAnon Shaman is back, dropping new "wisdom" on Twitter Jennifer Sandlin

History "The Christmas Uprising" in Jamaica, 1831, heralded the end of slavery in the British Empire Elías Villoro

books Books about contemplative practices, healing, and the politics of care work Elías Villoro

COVID-19 Teacher arrested after giving Covid shot to a 17-year-old student Carla Sinclair

New data: You have a one in 5,000 chance every day of getting a breakthrough COVID-19 infection (or maybe even one in 10,000) David Pescovitz

music Listen to the Canadian government's official census soundtrack Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Georgia school principal suspended the student who posted video of crowded hallway of maskless students Mark Frauenfelder

Boing Boing Gadgets With Learnable, learning to code doesn't have to turn your brain into a pretzel Boing Boing's Shop

politics India: Worst mass violence in Delhi in decades kills 13 during Trump visit Xeni Jardin

censorship Tiktok has become a vital tool for monitoring abuses against Xinjiang Uyghurs, but that's threatened by the company's new censorship rules Cory Doctorow

economics A thorough defense of Modern Monetary Theory Cory Doctorow

video games Civilization VI has been ported to iPhone and my productivity has died Séamus Bellamy

elections Ahead of national elections, India's authoritarian ruling party loses a key regional battle Cory Doctorow

statistics Puerto Rico to dismantle its statistics agency in the midst of radical shock doctrine project Cory Doctorow