Entertainment Sanrio spending $66M to build Hello Kitty resort in the sky Ellsworth Toohey

mexico The promise of Mexico's Tren Maya has gone off the rails Séamus Bellamy

crime Sand thieves stole an entire Jamaican beach and got away with it in 2008 Ellsworth Toohey

trauma The cost of endless war: almost every child in Gaza needs psychological care Jason Weisberger

Science The delicious sizzling noise is your brain on ChatGPT Rob Beschizza

rancid signs If your coconut cream smells like soap, here's why (toss it!) Carla Sinclair

architecture Sky pool links Dubai penthouses, looks down on marina Rob Beschizza

Fooling no one Albanian developers think Jared and Ivanka are peddling Trump's influence Jason Weisberger

national parks $100m gift to the National Park Service is "transformative" Rob Beschizza

Entertainment Disney announces huge theme park expansions Ruben Bolling

cute If you're having a rough day, these baby wallabies will cheer you up! Jennifer Sandlin

rich people problems Internet rallies around javelina that are destroying "one of the most beautiful golf courses in the country" Jennifer Sandlin

happy mutants Because Internet: the new linguistics of informal English Cory Doctorow

law Heirs' property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families Cory Doctorow

Real things that actually exist KFC introduces a firelog that smells like greasy fried chicken Rusty Blazenhoff

class war Puerto Rico is a tax-haven for rich mainlanders and is also too broke to survive hurricanes: are these facts possibly related, somehow? Cory Doctorow

congressional bad behavior Congressperson Dana Rohrabacher calls cops on citizen for asking questions Jason Weisberger

california LA's soaring homelessness is distorting the national statistics Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets 3 reasons to learn to code in 2018 Boing Boing's Shop

Japan Hey, this ice cream don't melt! Richard Kaufman