BoingBoing
SUBSCRIBE STORE
  • SEARCH
  • STORE
  • Blog : The posts
  • Forums : Read the rules
  • Store : Wonderful Products (Contact Support)
  • Newsletter : Daily wonderful things
  • About Us : Writers and staff
  • Contact Us : Get satisfaction
  • Advertise : Thank you for reading
  • Privacy Policy : The data you generate
  • TOS : What you agree to
  • Thumbnails : Youtube Thumbnail generator
  • Battle Royale publicity still
    Entertainment "Adults cannot be trusted": The brutal 1999 Japanese movie that influenced "Squid Game" Ellsworth Toohey
  • Cages with typhus-carrying lice strapped onto a person's thigh. (Wikipedia)
    World War II How Polish professors let infected lice feed on them to avoid concentration camps in WWII Ellsworth Toohey
  • Fighter pilots at Aleutian party enjoying
    World War II How WWII sailors made torpedo juice from weapon fuel Ellsworth Toohey
  • books Artist Saul Steinberg's 1945 book "All in Line" gets a lavish new re-publication Ruben Bolling
  • The original Code Talkers sworn in. Photo: U.S. National Archives & Records (public domain)
    encryption Navajo Code Talker John Kinsel Sr dead at 107 Rob Beschizza
  • liberal arts education
    politics The WWII soldier who died fighting for the "precious ideals" of liberal arts education Yoy Luadha
  • maps Map of ships sunk during World War II Rob Beschizza
  • religion 1942 letter suggests Pope Pius XII knew "detailed information" about mass killings of Jews and Poles Rob Beschizza
  • Entertainment "Reason and Emotion": A 1943 Disney cartoon foreshadowing "Inside Out," Putin, and Trump Ruben Bolling
  • hypocrisy Sen. Tuberville's lies about father's WWII service record delight his MAGA base Mark Frauenfelder
  • World War II Dorothea Lange's rarely-seen photos of Japanese Americans in U.S. concentration camps Mark Frauenfelder
  • volcanoes A volcanic eruption unearthed a pair of sunken ships on Iwo Jima Thom Dunn
  • News Trump says '1917 pandemic' ended Second World War (nope, Spanish Flu was in 1918, before WWII) Xeni Jardin
  • History Powerful Iwo Jima WWII footage shot by marines in combat and never seen publicly David Pescovitz
  • climate change There's 22 million gallons of nuclear waste under a concrete dome on a Pacific Island, and it's sinking Thom Dunn
  • World War II Terrence Malick's latest film looks beautiful and sad, surprising absolutely no one Séamus Bellamy
  • Technology World War II Enigma cipher machine up for auction David Pescovitz
  • History Introducing Faces of Auschwitz Séamus Bellamy
  • History Russia's anti-Nazi women's sniper unit, colorized Andrea James
  • vintage Railroad women of 1943 Rob Beschizza
Next

Read the rules you agree to by using this website in our Terms of Service.

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

Boing Boing uses cookies and analytics trackers, and is supported by advertising, merchandise sales and affiliate links. Read about what we do with the data we gather in our Privacy Policy.

Who will be eaten first? Our forum rules are detailed in the Community Guidelines.

Boing Boing is published under a Creative Commons license except where otherwise noted.

    • Mark Frauenfelder
    • David Pescovitz
    • Rob Beschizza
    • Carla Sinclair
    Editors
    • Jason Weisberger
    Publisher
    • Ken Snider
    Sysadmin
    • About Us
    • Newsletter
    • Contact Us
    • Advertise
    • Forums
    • Shop
    • Shop Support
Please support Boing Boing!
Get all the day's posts in one ad-free email for just $5 a month.
Subscribe now!