snowball Here are an assortment of images depicting snowball fights from the 1400s to the 1900s Popkin

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

silly If you love ducks, gift yourself a quacking keyboard! Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets Fly high this holiday: 4K drone bundle cuts price to $99.97 Boing Boing's Shop

politics Examining QAnon's "official" Twitter account Grant St. Clair

adorable animals Neuty the nutria gets a treat after surviving Hurricane Francine Jennifer Sandlin

olympics WTF is the Paris Olympic mascot? Gail Sherman

Presidential speeches Yes!! Kamala Harris brings down the house with supercharged speech in North Carolina (video) Carla Sinclair

libraries Internet Archive forced to remove half a million books Natalie Dressed

NASA's race to synchronize Earth and Moon clocks and why it matters Mark Frauenfelder

Games Helldivers but with the Penguins of Madagascar Gail Sherman

Helldivers 2 is being broken by snowball fights Grant St. Clair

movies Marvel's VFX artists vote to unionize Grant St. Clair

vaporwave Chill out with this Vaporwave jam set to the Weather Channel Thom Dunn

Culture Temperature Check is a podcast about climate, race, and culture Elías Villoro

toys Biblically-accurate Furby Rob Beschizza

meat What if the rare green comet in the sky is actually a giant space meatball? Thom Dunn

Game Face Competitive table setters do it for the honor and the glory Jason Weisberger

design E. Bryant Crutchfield, inventor of the Trapper Keeper, RIP David Pescovitz

design Hunk of airplane fuselage converted into home office David Pescovitz