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Remember way back in the Before Times (like, 2018) when being caught at a white nationalist conference would tank your political career? Not anymore! Meet Darren Beattie, your new acting State Department Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, because the...
When many animals hear a sound, they prick up their ears to listen more closely. Unfortunately, we lost that ability during our evolutionary journey becoming the boring humans we are today. However, while our ears don't prick, we still have the vestigial ear muscle that does ...
'Combined with quality therapy, safe and equitable access, and full-scale societal healing, psychedelics are a shortcut to liberation, dignity, and power—the 'Promised Land' as envisioned by Martin Luther King, Jr.,' writes Dr. Nicholas Powers, poet, journalist, and...
A fluffy young golden retriever takes 'puppy love' to a new level when he gets a bit too frisky with his oversized toy. 'Started off all cute and innocent..,' says the caption of his hilarious TikTok video as the pooch carries a huge stuffed animal across the room. — Read...
This astonishing extraterrestrial face was spotted in a Google Earth satellite image of Antarctica. Visit 72°00'36.0'S, 168°34'40.0'E and pledge your allegiance to the Cosmic Rulers of Pareidolia. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! As...
Fox News will report that Mexico has caved in, but anyone paying attention knows that Mexico agreed to nothing new, and convicted felon #47 has backed down. Everyone except conservative media understands that Trump got suckered into giving Mexico and we, the US consumers, a...
Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight were forced to evacuate right before takeoff in Houston, Texas yesterday after the plane's engine caught fire. In a montage video circulating online, black smoke billows out from under a wing as one person in the plane says, 'Oh my...
Netflix's fantastic series, which brought The Karate Kid to streaming, will hold one last All-Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament. WANT BOING BOING IN YOUR EMAIL BOX? CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT BOING BOING! What started out as a fantastic homage to the Valley turned out to...
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This is the only version of the anointing of the Orange Menace that I have seen. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This is likely far more entertaining and easier to stomach than watching footage or clips from the inauguration. — Read the rest...
I gave up on Civ a few versions back: the historical features and flourishes didn't evoke 'guide human civilization' as a game any more for me. Just more themed elaborations of complicated game systems I didn't have time to figure out. — Read the rest The post Civilization...
German hunters know how to call a deer to its doom, and the best of them competed this weekend in the country's prestigious deer-calling championship. The AP's Daniel Niemann: The hunters used specially made ox horns, triton snail shells, glass cylinders, the hollow stems...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Amorphophallus gigas, a close relative of the famed corpse flower and apparently plenty stinksome in its own right, has bloomed for the first time since it was established there in 2018. The carrion scent attracts pollinators. — Read the rest ...
Elon Musk, in his vague but now clearly powerful role as head of the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, spent the weekend gaining access to government computer systems, cutting off access to federal workers, and shutting down USAID, the federal agency that...
In what might be the most personal attack on our coping mechanisms since Marie Kondo demanded we throw away our comfort clutter, a federal judge in Illinois just ruled that stress-shopping doesn't count as legal standing. As reported by Courthouse News Service, our hero...
A couple of disoriented hikers on Scotland's second highest mountain called in for an emergency rescue — hours after calling and then turning the same rescue team away. The pair was halfway up Ben MacDui mountain last Tuesday night when they panicked, telling rescuers at...
Back in ye olden tymes of the 1800s, a French physician named Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne was shocking people's faces with electric probes to figure out how emotions work. His main test subject was some random old toothless dude whose face was conveniently numb to pain. —...
The vagus nerve is a busy bundle of over 100,000 information-carrying fibers that runs from the brain stem through the body to connect the brain with major organs including the heart, lungs, and digestive system. Scientists have discovered they can hack this neural network...
At Lumon Industries, numbers don't just represent data — they trigger emotional responses in the workers who sort them. The company's Macrodata Refinement (MDR) program tasks employees with organizing arrays of numbers based on the feelings they evoke. Workers face 'a sea...
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