News Vladimir Putin's old Stasi ID card discovered Xeni Jardin

surveillance German government giving up on digital reassembly of shredded Stasi files, resorting to manual puzzlings Cory Doctorow

videos How to covertly toss an apartment, Stasi style Cory Doctorow

photography Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany's legendary, paranoid secret police Cory Doctorow

Old school How East Germany's Stasi tried to drive activists insane, and how they resisted Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Stasi radio monitoring department, hard at work, 1980s Cory Doctorow

gadgets Keycaps look like adorable cartoon buns Rob Beschizza

longevity Why this man takes 75 pills every single day Allan Rose Hill

tardigrade Tardigrade proteins can protect human cells Gail Sherman

public education Learn about emergency medicine with Dr. Sam Ghali Jennifer Sandlin

art "Medical Science Inktober" highlights terrific, creepy drawings of "unsavory science" topics including polycephaly, bloodletting, and more Jennifer Sandlin

medicine Man tests positive on pregnancy test… but it wasn't that David Pescovitz

Weird Mysterious big dead octopus found in Indiana public park toilet (video) David Pescovitz

Science Here's how rodent research on the International Space Station is going Elías Villoro

Science NASA and the European Space Agency explore ways for astronauts to hibernate during long space journeys Ruben Bolling