Primitive Technology Primitive Technology: Making a cane water filtration system Gareth Branwyn

climate change People in California are turning to Tatooine-style moisture farming Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets The guy whose DRM for juice company cratered last year now sells "raw water" packed with all the microbes and amoebas you can stomach Cory Doctorow

class war Flint official punished for water crisis: she must write an apology letter, will not serve time Cory Doctorow

class war 40% of households in Philadelphia can't pay their water bill Cory Doctorow

usausausa A nation of Flints: America has 1.2m miles of deteriorating lead pipes and they'll cost $1 trillion to fix Cory Doctorow

photography Bear poses for 400 selfies at Colorado park Thom Dunn

books How to read Donald Duck 50 years after the CIA fomented a coup in Chile on September 11, 1973 Elías Villoro

movies Zoe Saldana is the queen of the box office Devin Nealy

wild animals Turkey terrorizing trailer park. Residents arming themselves golf clubs (video) David Pescovitz

politics Donald Trump bashes his most ardent followers — the evangelicals — for their "great disloyalty" Carla Sinclair

siberia What it's like to bathe and do laundry when it is -95°F Mark Frauenfelder

new york city New Yorker documents every pizza slice he's eaten for past nine years, shares hard data Rusty Blazenhoff

Comic Books Freaky finds: shopping for comics at Bizarro-Wuxtry Lee Keeler

bitcoin I can't believe it took this long for someone to make a Bitcoin-mining space heater Thom Dunn

Avatar boycott Check out these films by Indigenous filmmakers Jennifer Sandlin

MARS ROVER This gingerbread Mars Curiosity rover is out of this world Rusty Blazenhoff

capybaras eating things Watch a capybara named Queen Elizabeth eating fruits and veg Jennifer Sandlin

Business How Liquid Death took the water market by storm Devin Nealy

books The Red Deal calls for climate solutions beyond the scope of state action Elías Villoro