child labor A toy vacuum for kids that actually works—sort of Rusty Blazenhoff

Science Eating kimchi might help clear nanoplastics out of your gut! Jennifer Sandlin

gadgets Retrospective of the Bic Cristal pen Rob Beschizza

Technology Explaining how a touchscreen works with a sausage (video) Ellsworth Toohey

Science Scientists watch in real time as microplastics block blood vessels in mouse brains Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Dyson Trees could make a home for humans—and other things Rob Beschizza

dystopia Microplastics found in every semen test sample in study Natalie Dressed

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

balls New study suggests that microplastics are stored in the balls Thom Dunn

True Detective Here's how the grotesque "corpsicle" from True Detective: Night Country was created Jennifer Sandlin

tabloids Testicles in a jar (and China's invasion of America) in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

mario Woman decides to live a week in the life of Super Mario Thom Dunn

Weird What is the mysterious creature banging on this family's door every night? (video) David Pescovitz

live music Carsie Blanton is making live music great again Matt Maranian

animals Penis-shaped dog toy Thom Dunn

climate change Ocean pollution is shrinking mammal testicles Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets With summer gone, time to stock up on your fall mask options Boing Boing's Shop

Plasmonic gold nanoparticles Got eye floaters? Researchers have created gold nanoparticles that bust them up Mark Frauenfelder

shade balls Watch 96 million 'shade balls' pour into LA reservoir Rob Beschizza

water New technology sucks water out of thin air Séamus Bellamy