The right stuff Chuck Yeager, RIP (1923-2020) Mark Frauenfelder

Games Xbox partners with Asus to make its first foray into handheld gaming Grant St. Clair

advice Why deathbed regrets don't make good life guidance Ellsworth Toohey

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adorable animals Armadillo chows down on a "termite mound" birthday cake Jennifer Sandlin

politics The influential Signal chatrooms where tech billionaires and their courtiers swung far-right Rob Beschizza

politics Public historians slam Trump's statue garden plan Jennifer Sandlin

medicine Medication delivered by chewing gum Séamus Bellamy

arrests Florida woman impersonates ICE agent to kidnap ex-boyfriend's wife (and gets away with it, at first) Carla Sinclair

School board member admits to banning books without reading them, faces lawsuit Ellsworth Toohey

politics Study: bigots who hate one marginalized group increasingly hate all of them Rob Beschizza

tech I removed the DRM from my Amazon Kindle ebooks Séamus Bellamy

Boing Boing Gadgets This sleek tracker works with Apple and Android and costs less than $22 a piece Boing Boing's Shop

chemistry Silica gel's secret history and path to worldwide ubiquity Allan Rose Hill

design A mysterious and important Ikea ad Rob Beschizza

RFK Jr The Mercola Tapes: wellness entrepreneur meets spirit, gets CO2 enema and condemns veterinarians Jennifer Sandlin

sponsored DaVinci IQ3 review: A cooler, bigger, better dry herb vaporizer Advertiser

toys NYC's Museum of Nostalgia is a retro wonderland Popkin

headphones Bowers & Wilkins' Pi8 are my ear weapons of choice Séamus Bellamy

adorable animals Does the adorable American woodcock "peent" or "meep"? Jennifer Sandlin