snow Minnesota crowdsourced new snow plow names and they're as silly as you'd expect Rusty Blazenhoff

canada Town of Asbestos having difficulty landing on a new name David Pescovitz

names These are the top ten baby names in the US David Pescovitz

maps Most popular baby names by state, 1910-2015 Andrea James

homelessness in america Private equity firms scooping up properties to maximize profits, increasing number of unhoused people Elías Villoro

cockroaches You can name a cockroach after your ex for Valentine's Day, thanks to the Toronto Zoo Rusty Blazenhoff

immigration The incredibly charming story of Dublin's Chinese street names Thom Dunn

names La Cuetlaxochitl became the most famously misnamed holiday flower Elías Villoro

Pontiac Take a ride down memory lane in the Pontiac Fiero Andrew Yi

music Pass the Sault Elías Villoro

immigration This short film explores how immigrant children have to deal with anglicizing their names Devin Nealy

trailers This trailer for the Afro Samurai director's cut is beautiful Devin Nealy

Republicans Laura Ingraham's idiocy on full display after Meidas Touch calls out her GOP-isn't-violent BS Carla Sinclair

politics Whom would Harriet Tubman leave behind? Elías Villoro

History Every day is Columbus Day for indigenous peoples Elías Villoro

canada The second T in Toronto is silent—isn't it? Elías Villoro

Boing Boing Gadgets Become a Microsoft Excel whiz for however much money you decide Boing Boing's Shop

corn kid Corn Kid named South Dakota's cornbassador Jennifer Sandlin

trump If Trump is reelected, he promises to "look very, very favorably about full pardons" for the January 6 rioters who are "incredible" David Pescovitz

Space The Harriet Tubman Space Telescope and the Lavender Scare at NASA: What happens when a telescope zooms in on the politics of Earth? A.E. Gómez