social experiments A dollar buys you one minute of digital billboard fame — unless no one follows, then your message stays forever Ellsworth Toohey
News Televised stunt reveals MAGA's cult-like defense of fake depraved Trump recordings Mark Frauenfelder
Space Help Wanted: participants for a NASA social isolation experiment inside a Russian lab David Pescovitz
Food Diners use chest-mounted robot arms to feed each other in unusual social experiment David Pescovitz
Science "My one great mistake": Einstein's atomic bomb letter comes to auction, expected to fetch $150,000 Ellsworth Toohey
on the feeding and care of basilisks Emergent misalignment: AI trained to write insecure code also became a misanthropic Nazi Rob Beschizza
make america russia Ominous warning: HHS tells workers to assume their email to Elon Musk will fall into the wrong hands Carla Sinclair
Boing Boing Gadgets Mood lighting: a last ditch effort to keep Thanksgiving stress free Boing Boing's Shop
personal finance In 1995, Patrick Combs deposited a fake junk mail check for $95,093 and the bank cleared it Mark Frauenfelder
tabloids Covid cover-up, UFO cover-up, and Trump's sadistic sex tapes in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Science Research is suggesting we don't just inherit genes from our parents: "experiences can lead to changes in gene expression" Ruben Bolling
