guns Under Trumpcare, surviving a gunshot wounds gives you a "pre-existing condition" Cory Doctorow

Blue Cross denies $8K life-saving drug — Kansas City student risks fatal bleeding Ellsworth Toohey

Science Academic fraud endemic in published research, from photoshopped blots to AI slop Rob Beschizza

News RIP Steve Albini, influential producer and musician (1962-2024) Mark Frauenfelder

Rockaway Beach New York beach closed after 65-year-old woman suffers a shark bite Carla Sinclair

tabloids New Queen's royal war and Joe Biden's cover-up in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Boing Boing Gadgets In defense of the mushroom: here's why all your fungi fears are actually wrong Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids Prince Charles unfit to be king, and Barbra Streisand addicted, in this week's Shonda Rhimes-themed tabloid Peter Sheridan

archaeology Mummy GI tracts yield evidence of early hospice care Miss Cellania

noads The man who destroyed skepticism Mitch Horowitz

generators Half of deaths from Hurricane Laura were caused by CO poisoning Thom Dunn

tabloids Bill Clinton dying, a Hollywood baby boom, and a cross-dressing star outed in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

fires Video shot by survivors of the Camp Fire who escape for their lives shows just how terrifying this fire is Carla Sinclair

Science The CDC is why you and your loved ones aren't dead. Trump just banned them from using the phrase "science-based." Cory Doctorow

drugs The daring doctors experimenting with psychedelic medicines David Pescovitz

picks State of Emergency in Charlotte as Violence Erupts at Protests Over Police Killings of Black Men Xeni Jardin

media Rogue planet hurtling toward a collision with Earth and other tabloid stunners Peter Sheridan

picks While eating man's face, Florida 'cannibal killer' wore Trump 'Make America Great Again' hat Xeni Jardin

picks Prince: death by ignorance and fear Maureen Herman

medicine The people who reportedly never sleep. Ever. David Pescovitz