Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan's World Nomad Games: Yurt-building, headless goat polo, horseback wrestling, and hunting with eagles Natalie Dressed

transport Behold the schnauzer chariot of Kazakhstan Rob Beschizza

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan adopts Borat catchphrase as new tourism slogan: Very Nice! Rusty Blazenhoff

censorship Genetic Evasion: using genetic algorithms to beat state-level internet censorship Cory Doctorow

china Muslim woman who escaped from a Chinese concentration camp describes gang-rapes, torture, forced medical experiments Cory Doctorow

Technology Google, Mozilla, and Apple are using this one weird trick to block Kazakhstan's surveillance of its own citizens Xeni Jardin

canada Russia-linked hacker Karim Baratov gets 5 years in U.S. prison & $250,000 fine for Yahoo breach Xeni Jardin

Kazakhstan This is what a wedding cake for some Kazakh one percenters looked like Rusty Blazenhoff

politics Left-wing activists across the former USSR launch "September," to rally opposition to far-right movements Cory Doctorow

corruption EFF and partners reveal Kazakh government phished journalists, opposition politicians Cory Doctorow

Space Europe and Russia just launched a Mars space mission to sniff out signs of life Xeni Jardin

NASA "Nominal" Soyuz launch sends Expedition 44 crew of three to International Space Station Xeni Jardin

Science The clouds above us teem with strange creatures Allan Rose Hill

Science Fancy science journal caught publishing nonsense term "vegetative electron microscopy," doubles down Ellsworth Toohey

mistakes Missiles now biggest killer of airplane passengers Rob Beschizza

Idiot tourist carved his name into an ancient Pompeii house Allan Rose Hill

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

Boing Boing Gadgets The aloSIM is a great travel buddy for saving money on international data, now only $21.97 Boing Boing's Shop

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