tattoo Tattooist to Victorian England's wealthiest patrons Natalie Dressed

Science This Victorian ghost book exposed spiritualist frauds with cool optical illusions Ellsworth Toohey

music Man on the cover of "Led Zeppelin IV" is identified Ruben Bolling

bees Palace beekeeper's most solemn task: telling the bees about Queen Elizabeth II's death Jennifer Sandlin

futility closet In 1850, a Nile hippo created a stir when it arrived at the London Zoo Futility Closet

san francisco Watch a 140 year-old Victorian home roll down the street and take a right turn David Pescovitz

game theory How "God Makes God" is a 1993 CD-ROM about probability, game theory, genetic algorithms, and evolutionary strategies Mark Frauenfelder

painting Why 18th-century lovers exchanged portraits of their eyes Clive Thompson

books The magnificent early age of book covers Clive Thompson

Boing Boing Gadgets PingPongly brings table tennis to virtually any table Boing Boing's Shop

books Publisher cans Naomi Wolf book about homosexuality in Victorian England Rob Beschizza

punctuation Why semicolons are lovely and colons less so Clive Thompson

mistakes Listen to an author realize her forthcoming book contains a terrible mistake Rob Beschizza

biographies Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966 Mark Dery

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

uk UK police train machine-learning model using Experian data that stereotypes people based on garden size, first names, and postal codes Cory Doctorow

paintings British art museum removes a famous 1869 painting of Femme Fatale nymphs Mark Frauenfelder

books Less than Human, More than Human Jasmina Tesanovic

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

class war Laurie Penny blazes: Brexit is just the latest alibi for austerity Cory Doctorow