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UPDATED LIST of Airlines canceling China flights over Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
As we've been blogging here at Boing Boing, the Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread, and airlines have begun suspending flights to and...
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Watch: A pet goat enjoys morning pastries before riding away on a motorcycle
This goat knows the routine as it excitedly jumps on the man for its morning pastries. It then jumps on the back of the man's motorcycl...
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Remembering those badgers
I have lost hours of my life to Badger, Badger, Badger and the meter is clearly still running. from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2vEFe2y ...
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1917... now starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, and Gary the Snail
Carnage-Boy asks: "What if Sam Mendes' latest badass movie was set in Bikini Bottom instead of Pas-de-Calais?" Here's t...
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Mattress shopping with a bad back
The world is now filled with an insane variety of things you can sleep on. I ended up with a Purple 3 mattress, but holy cow -- what a ride...
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Incredible microscope video of an otherworldly green algae colony
First discovered in 1700 by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the microscopic spheres in this video are Volvox, a genus of chlorophyte green algae. ...
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This unique espresso maker belongs in every coffee-lover's kitchen
The morning coffee routine is a wonderful thing—offering ambitious people a chance to rid themselves of sleepiness and fatigue so they can c...
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A witch reviews the third season of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and talks about what the show gets right and wrong
My friend Peg Kay Aloi, a modern practicing witch, has two articles out on the “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina." In the first one , on ...
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The Jovian Dragon
Philosophia-47: "On the occasion of the Chinese New Year, here is a PJ17 image as seen through the eyes of famous Song Dynasty artist C...
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John Delaney drops out of presidential race
John Delaney, former representative of Maryland's 6th district, is dropping out of the race to become the Democratic Party's candida...
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Man performs Moonlight Sonata for 61-year-old elephant
Paul Barton ( previously at Boing Boing) plays the piano for elephants and has been at it for many years. Here he is performing Beethoven...
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Truck has 480,000 lumen light panel installed on it
RCtestflight on YouTube was dissastisfied with only being able to light up entire mountainsides from four kilometers away, so replaced the ...
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An Earthship meets a tiny house
When I was a teen, I lived for the Whole Earth Catalog , homesteading, building geodesic domes, solar power, communes, and other hippie feve...
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That time a ninja turtle starred in pickle advertisement
This ad features Raphael, the teenage mutant ninja turtle, brandishing pickles. It's not a perfectly on-model Raph — one commenter at Y...
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There's going to be an "International Male" documentary
The upcoming documentary ALL MAN: The International Male Story promises to go behind the spandexed bulges of the most flamboyant mail-orde...
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Radiohead's "Creep" but with Google Autocomplete lyrics
Radiohead's "Creep" made dummy thicc by Google predicting the lyrics. ( Nag on the Lake ) screengrab via Billy Cobb/YouTube...
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Some wasps have evolved to recognize and remember faces
A team of researchers at Cornell University recently published a new paper titled " Evolutionary dynamics of recent selection on cognit...
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The trailer for Netflix's new "Ghost in the Shell" series looks like a 90s kids' cartoon
While I respect Netflix's decision to go with 3D CGI instead of a more traditional anime-style animation, this reminds me of when I was...
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Watch Leonard Cohen read "The Only Tourist in Havana Turns His Thoughts Homeward" (1965)
“I was in Havana in 1961 during the Bay of Pigs invasion fighting on both sides,” said the great Leonard Cohen in 1965 before reading this ...
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The DudeRobe puts the traditional boring bathrobe to shame
Whoever said style, comfort, and function couldn’t coexist in the same garment within the same universe clearly hasn’t seen the DudeRobe —an...
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U.S. State Department issues "Do Not Travel" advisory for China
The U.S. State Department is warning Americans not to go to China because of the risk of getting ill from the coronavirus, reports the New Y...
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Japanese exchange student shares thoughts on high school's mushroom cloud mascot
In this student-made video, students at Richland High School in Richland, Washington were asked what they thought of their mascot, which is...
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Two lovely BMW R90S sold at auction in January and one I like more
This is an absolutely lovely example of a very well restored 1975 BMW R90S . I am also a fan of this '74 silver smoke , but I prefer ...
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W.H.O. declares Wuhan coronavirus global emergency
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has declared a global emergency as the so-called Wuhan Coronavirus continues to spread. The WHO'...
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Speaking Simulator is a bizarre game where you use a gamepad to control a character's mouth
In the game Speaking Simulator (Steam and Switch) you play a robot disguised as a human that tries to fit in the real world. Your job it t...
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Watch the first episode of Star Trek: Picard for free on YouTube
CBS's All Access streaming service costs $6 a month and it's the only (legit) way to watch the new series, Star Trek: Picard . But...
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Watch and rewatch this optical illusion to figure out how it's done
"Twisting reality, one video at a time," VFX artist Kevin Lustgarten regularly churns out amazing optical illusions like this one...
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First person-to-person transmission of coronavirus in the US
A second person in Chicago has come down with the coronavirus, bringing the total of coronavirus patients in the US up to six (two in Chicag...
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Facebook stock plummets 8%, wiping out $50 billion in market value
Facebook issued a disappointed quarterly report, sending its stock price down by 8%, reports CNBC . In the report, "Facebook also warn...
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Facebook pays $550m settlement over illegally-collected facial recognition data
Facebook has agreed to pay $550m to users in Illinois who sued it over its storing of biometric data without consent. This allowed the soci...
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Postal worker rented storage unit to hide mail he felt "pressured" to deliver
Former United States postal worker Jason Delacruz admitted he rented a public storage unit for $49 per month to store mail he couldn't d...
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Does this yeti, Nepal's official tourist mascot, actually look like a yeti?
As part of the Nepal governments new tourism campaign, they commissioned more than 100 huge yeti statues designed by Ang Tsherin Sherpa to ...
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Vice documentary about how Viagra is being marketing to millennials
Now that Viagra is available over the counter in some parts of the world or is easily available online with or without a prescription, many...
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Recode's data privacy reporter shares story of how hackers stole $13,103.91 from her
Sara Morrison is a data privacy reporter for Vox's Recode. She recently wrote a story about how hackers drained her bank account of over...
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Sculpting Sonic the Hedgehog with a 3D printing pen
This video is narrated in Korean and I didn't understand one word, but the artist's calm voice makes it all the more relaxing to wa...
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How many triangles do you see?
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Popular Mechanics Magazine (@popularmechanics) on ...
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Trump's border wall ain't so beautiful after it falls with the wind
"I'm a builder. I know how to build," said Trump when he promised a "beautiful" border wall. Welp, this is part of ...
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Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don’t use Viagra, in this week’s dubious tabloids
“America’s Dirty Clergy Revealed!” screams the ’National Enquirer’ headline above a story claiming to name “4,120 Predator Priests.” Hundre...
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This tape is perfect for any job that requires a non-slip or sticky surface in the home
Having slippery floors or vertical surfaces is rarely a good thing in the home, especially if you’re trying to lay a large rug or want to in...
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Adulting merit badges
There's an entire set of merit badges for "adulting" [Amazon], each a handsomely-embroidered Scouting-style achievement relat...
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Watch this teen's drone footage of a great white shark casually swimming around unwitting people
A teen flying his drone on a New South Wales beach noticed what is believed to be a great white shark swimming around unwitting waders. As ...
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The story behind DalĂ and Disney's surrealist short "Destino"
Salvador DalĂ and Walt Disney were friends. They met at a party in 1944 and soon began collaborating on a surreal annimated short together....
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Fourth season of NASA Explorers premiers, focuses on microgravity and space science
I am excited for the launch of Season 4 of NASA Explorers , put together by the ISS Research Communications team which includes Boing Boing ...
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How cows use their unique voices to cowmoooonicate
For five months, University of Sydney PhD student Alexandra Green spent time in the field, literally, with 18 Holstein-Friesian heifers, rec...
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US mail carrier filled storage unit with mail because he felt too "pressured" to deliver it
Former Chesapeake, Virginia mail carrier Jason Delacruz pleaded guilty to delay of mail by a postal employee. He had been caught filling a ...
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Control your dog's shedding and keep them comfortable with this onesie
Anyone who owns a dog knows how difficult it can be to keep them from shedding in the home or getting filthy at the beach. The Shed Defender...
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United Nations was hacked in July 2019 and kept it quiet, despite its own staff being at risk
How definitely not to handle a hack. The United Nations' IT systems were penetrated by hackers 6 months ago, but the UN didn't bot...
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Coming soon to Japan: a 60-ft walking Gundam robot
Who cares about the Tokyo Olympics, when a 60-foot walking RX-78-2 robot is going to be stomping around nearby Yokohama in October? It will...
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