cats The best songs about depression written from the perspective of a cat Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Long COVID patient cries with gratitude for being able to smell coffee again (video) Mark Frauenfelder

books 30,000 Steps is a hilariously heartfelt page-turner about opioid deaths Thom Dunn

mistakes Excavator extricated Andrea James

prison Watch a video of my prison and opioids play "Streets Like This," performed by actors who have all dealt with incarceration Thom Dunn

puzzles The NY Times' crossword editor kept building puzzles from his hospital bed Ellsworth Toohey

Boing Boing Gadgets Your camera roll is a disaster — This app fixes it for $60 Boing Boing's Shop

ever rest Everest's most famous body finally has a name Jason Weisberger

Tanzania Man lives with a knife blade in his chest for 8 years Séamus Bellamy

Science Dissolving crust on dead lithium batteries allows restoration to 95% original capacity Rob Beschizza

Delightful Creatures California's vanished sunflower sea stars are not totally vanished Jason Weisberger

Delightful Creatures Gray whales made a comeback, and now the food is disappearing Jason Weisberger

AI After 3.5 trillion guesses, a forgotten $400k Bitcoin wallet finally opened Ellsworth Toohey

Water Wars The Colorado River's last buffers: officials juggle shrinking reservoirs to avoid system collapse Jason Weisberger

Technology GoDaddy handed a 27-year-old nonprofit domain to a stranger 2,000 miles away Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Inside DriveSavers, where data loss becomes a grief crisis Ellsworth Toohey

jeff bezos Blue Origin delivered a satellite to the wrong orbit Séamus Bellamy

Space NASA's Artemis II images—and a phone video Rob Beschizza

worse things happen at sea California's ocean protections work, so naturally we're arguing about them Jason Weisberger

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