videos Boing Boing presents: Skeleton Boy, a moving short documentary about the life, death and afterlife of Harry Eastlack, star of the Mutter Museum Cory Doctorow

disability "Monster Imagery Taught Me I Was a Monster": Riva Lehrer on Beauty, Deformity, Disability Mark Dery

curiosities You can visit Einstein's brain, Rasputin's penis, Galileo's middle finger, and other historic human curiosities Allan Rose Hill

cabinets of curiosity Medical museum embroiled in brouhaha over bequeathed body parts David Pescovitz

museums Happy International Museum Day! Jennifer Sandlin

museums When in Philadelphia, don't miss the "disturbingly informative" Mütter Museum Jennifer Sandlin

Comics There's an official $#@&ing terminology for censoring swears like $#@&: Grawlix Thom Dunn

Comics X-Men: Grand Design: Busting up the Nazis Ed Piskor

books Read: Strategic Dog Patterning, a story from "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers" Hugh AD Spencer

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

Death, Science, Sexology: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum Mark Dery

Excerpts Dr. Mütter's Marvels: intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

William S. Burroughs and the Dead-End Horror of the Centipede God Mark Dery