elephants Elephants evolving to be born without tusks thanks to ruthless poachers Carla Sinclair

facebook Facebook is the hub of the global trade in endangered species: can securities law be used to force the company into action? Cory Doctorow

russia Mammoth pirates plunder Russian arctic for "ethical ivory" Andrea James

animals China plans to ban ivory trade "within a year or so." US official: Yes it's a "huge" deal. Xeni Jardin

conservation Ivory smuggling route tracked via fake tusks with GPS Andrea James

Dungeons and Dragons D20 dice made from wooly mammoth ivory David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets Start your musical journey with the Populele Smart Ukulele, now only $159.99 Boing Boing's Shop

Internet BlueSky, Jack Dorsey's new Twitterlike platform, arrives in the App Store Rob Beschizza

medical Peek inside a rare collection of 17th century ivory medical dolls Popkin

wonderful creatures The strange carnivorous plant that lives on poop Grant St. Clair

History Time-lapse map of the colonization (and decolonization) of Africa Elías Villoro

racism Student loans as a strategy for social control Elías Villoro

Oldest known sentence ever written found on a comb meant to combat beard lice David Pescovitz

Saturday Night LIve That time Reverend Jesse Jackson read Green Eggs and Ham on SNL Andrew Yi

anime There's a Trigun CG remake in the works Devin Nealy

Boing Boing Gadgets Several ways to cut down on costs to hack your way through inflation Boing Boing's Shop

ads Dramatic interpretations of the 1990s Sears commercial for air conditioning Rob Beschizza

Science Richard Leakey, fossil hunter and anthropologist, RIP David Pescovitz

Delightful Creatures Ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 other species declared extinct Rob Beschizza

animals Look at this 28,000-year-old cave lion cub that was perfectly preserved in ice David Pescovitz