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

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

pedro pascal Pedro Pascal as economics textbooks Jennifer Sandlin

television Everyone's sick of stories that never end Rob Beschizza

bullying Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer's legacy Elías Villoro

horror Meet Murph, Nerf's first and only mascot Rob Beschizza

psychology It's possible to "think" yourself to death David Pescovitz

nazis How a centuries-old debate about musical tuning turned into a Nazi conspiracy theory Thom Dunn

psychology How to avoid loneliness by creating an imaginary friend Mark Frauenfelder

dreams Virtual reality is effective training for lucid dreaming, according to scientific study David Pescovitz

Injustice collectors Researchers identify personality profiles of conspiracy theorists Mark Frauenfelder

writing Cory Doctorow experiments with AI writing partner Sudowrite Mark Frauenfelder

aviation Using the Challenger Disaster to illustrate the 8 symptoms of groupthink Cory Doctorow

drugs Marijuana pulled from man's nasal cavity 18 years after he snuck it into prison David Pescovitz

death Rooster kills woman David Pescovitz

Science A deep dive into how parasites hijack our behavior and how we evolved to resist them Cory Doctorow

medicine Child had 500 extra teeth extracted and he's going to be fine David Pescovitz

cancer The Notorious RBG is cancer free and will return to the Supreme Court Jason Weisberger

Science The incredible story of Susan Potter, the "immortal corpse" David Pescovitz

guillotine watch Legal threats force retraction of peer-reviewed article about the problems with private-equity-backed dermatologists Cory Doctorow