anthropology Hidden North American tribe performs daily self-torture in pursuit of beauty Ellsworth Toohey

Science Your odds of finding a 100-year-old message in a bottle: 1 in 8 million Ellsworth Toohey

canada Worried academics run for the Canadian border Séamus Bellamy

tiktok HillmanTok University is "a virtual community celebrating Black culture and creativity" Jennifer Sandlin

donald trump Schwarzenegger endorses Harris: "I will always be an American before I am a Republican" Mark Frauenfelder

racism Black and Asian enrollment down at top colleges after end of affirmative action Rob Beschizza

scotus Emboldened by right-wing Supreme Court, conservatives take aim at gay marriage Rob Beschizza

politics DeSmog is the antidote to disinformation about climate, energy, and environmental issues Jennifer Sandlin

ftc FTC proposes new rule to ban non-compete clauses Andrew Yi

History Horses were in North America before Europeans. Don't tell Tucker Carlson. Elías Villoro

books Freedom Dreams finds "the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve" Elías Villoro

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

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

enslavement Stolen Relations: recovering stories of indigenous enslavement in the Americas A.E. Gómez

christian nationalists Kirk Cameron, Christian Reconstructionism, and The Homeschool Revolution Jennifer Sandlin

christmas A brief history of the war on Christmas Thom Dunn

kickstarter Kickstart this cool new comic of North American folktales by Indigenous artists Thom Dunn

tattoos These sharpened bird bones are the oldest tattooing tools ever discovered David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets The Patriot mask is 100% made in the USA — and right now, it's up to 60% off. Boing Boing's Shop

native americans That time George Washington ordered "total destruction and devastation" of the Haudenosaunee Thom Dunn