art Stunning illustrations of magnified pollen from 1873 Popkin

trees Your allergies are bad because of tree sexism Thom Dunn

allergies Backhoe operator releases "pollen bomb" by tapping tree Rusty Blazenhoff

animals You probably need more pollen-covered bats in your life Andrea James

cute This air quality monitor is a cute bird that dies when you need to air out your home Gail Sherman

weather Ad-Free Weather Website Offers Clean, Custom Forecasts With Air Quality, Pollen, and 10-Day Outlook Popkin

entomology Educate yourself with The Bee Guy's daily basic bee facts Jennifer Sandlin

Face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman Ellsworth Toohey

Science Macro photography reveals hidden art in butterfly and moth wings Popkin

Entertainment Get ready for a Chia Pet movie Gail Sherman

Boing Boing Gadgets Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's a micro-ecological air purifier! Boing Boing's Shop

gadgets Asus's new monitors have built-in "air purifiers." But what's the CADR? Rob Beschizza

The world's largest and oldest organism may have been growing for 80,000 years Allan Rose Hill

Boing Boing Gadgets Banish allergens and bad air particles from your home with this Honeywell air purifier Boing Boing's Shop

bees Semi-truck flatbed carrying bee hives overturns (video) David Pescovitz

Science The Anthropocene Working Group has chosen Crawford Lake as a "golden spike" that can help scientists understand this new geological epoch Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets For only $15, give Jack Frost the snub with this Magnetic Windshield Cover Boing Boing's Shop

gadgets You can pay $1000 to block annoying noise, filter out bad air, and look silly wearing Dyson's new gadget David Pescovitz