NO ON OZ Clever use of Oz yard signs results in anti-Oz message Mark Frauenfelder

conspiracy theories Fred LaBour invented most of the 'Paul is dead' clues as a joke and was stunned when the world believed them Ellsworth Toohey

Science Large Hadron Collider retired for upgrades Rob Beschizza

mistakes Ford rehires hundreds of "graybeard" engineers after AI shortcomings Rob Beschizza

Weird In 1971 two campers recorded what a Navy linguist calls a nonhuman language in the Sierra Nevadas Ellsworth Toohey

Food Taiwan hot pot restaurant plays a fan video instead of running AC Popkin

AI Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it Jason Weisberger

cars Kevin Mitnick left the man who helped jail him enough for a Porsche 911 Ellsworth Toohey

youtube Comedian guilt-trips audience into laughing Grant St. Clair

Science A cat-borne fungus infected 11,000 people; the US is next, CDC says Ellsworth Toohey

Chonkers the Clown Is Grandpa Pudding Brains the mystery patient getting the super-Ozempic? Jason Weisberger

Science In 1985, a Japanese woman wrote a letter about bookstores making her need to use the bathroom. It became a phenomenon. Ellsworth Toohey

Science Brain scans of authoritarians show reduced grey matter in regions for empathy and social reasoning Ellsworth Toohey

politics "Donald Dump" depicts Trump with sludge oozing out of his mouth Jennifer Sandlin

animals Honeybee curls up inside closing flower in timelapse video Popkin

tech culture Meta lays off thousands, monitors workers, increases the snack budget Jason Weisberger

pool guy Pool expert explains Grandpa Pudding Brains' Lincoln Memorial Algae Farm Jason Weisberger

Boing Boing Gadgets The math is wild: ChatGPT Plus is $240/year—5 years of ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini is just $99.99 Boing Boing's Shop

Games One of my favorite games is finally getting DLC, which means I can recommend it again guilt-free Grant St. Clair

movies Shrek 5 sure looks like another Shrek movie Grant St. Clair