drugs The chemistry of Neuromancer Rob Beschizza

florida Surgeon loses license after fatally removing wrong organ Mark Frauenfelder

livers and spleens Anatomy-challenged surgeon in Florida allegedly removes wrong organ (again!) — his patient dies Carla Sinclair

russia Russian woman dismembers rapper husband, feeds his corpse to rats Thom Dunn

News Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87 Xeni Jardin

Boing Boing Gadgets Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law Cory Doctorow

cancer Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for cancer, again Xeni Jardin

health People with diabetes are scouring the internet for a discontinued insulin pump that can be reprogrammed as an "artificial pancreas" Cory Doctorow

designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

dod Dystopia watch: a roundup of the DOD's new less-lethal weapons Cory Doctorow

3d printing New 3D printed corneas could save millions of people's vision David Pescovitz

eff Happy Day Against DRM! How We'll Hill-Climb Our Way to Glory! Cory Doctorow

health Rats exposed to cell phone radiation lived longer than control group Mark Frauenfelder

Boing Boing Gadgets How a maker with Type I diabetes led an open source project to create a free-as-in-code artificial pancreas Cory Doctorow

health Study suggests Type 2 diabetes "can be cured" by weight loss Rob Beschizza

chemotherapy Improving chemotherapy by lowering tumor pressure Dan Ruderman

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

Genetically-engineered yeast is the future of flavor Gastropod

Eat the Rude: Hannibal Lecter meets the 99% Mark Dery