crows Watch: Loyal crow often goes on walks with a family who rescued him Carla Sinclair

Technology Could advanced AI turn us into eyelash mites? Ellsworth Toohey

law Judge rules elephants can't pursue release from zoo because "an elephant is not a person" Allan Rose Hill

News Live webcams let you watch and feed China's stray cats Mark Frauenfelder

feminism Review: Poor Things is a masterfully decadent third-wave feminist film Natalie Dressed

animals This swimming baby otter makes all my problems go away Popkin

Delightful Creatures Rats given tiny backpacks and microphones and sent to rescue people trapped in earthquake rubble Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets The Cheerble Ball is a smart interactive toy that'll keep your cat on its toes Boing Boing's Shop

animals Analyzing the evolutionary biology of STAR WARS megafauna Thom Dunn

bears Libertarians exit, pursued by bears Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets Nifty mini-robots you can build Boing Boing's Shop

multi-agent interaction Watch these AI creatures learn to play hide-and-seek Mark Frauenfelder

corporatism Beto O'Rourke just hired a "senior advisor" who used to lobby for Keystone XL, Seaworld and private prisons Cory Doctorow

octopus Fishmonger buys 70-pound octopus just to set it free Rusty Blazenhoff

close encounters of the wingnut kind GOP congressional candidate from Florida says she knows space aliens Mark Frauenfelder

books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic

Science A map for extraterrestrials to find Earth David Pescovitz

politics Review: Wolfen (1981) Rob Beschizza

science fiction Sci-Fi Sundays: Analog Science Fiction, February 1970 Caleb Kraft

This guy is less boring dead The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, The Vampire Accountant Jason Weisberger