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Boing Boing, July 16, 2026
Iceman sourdough, a thrift-store pope, and missing skulls
Happy Thursday! Today’s stories: scientists baked bread with yeast from a 5,300-year-old mummy, six people in a Kansas thrift store elected their own pope, and the fossils that once...
Boing Boing Digest, July 16, 2026
Iceman sourdough, a thrift-store pope, and missing skulls
Happy Thursday! Today’s stories: scientists baked bread with yeast from a 5,300-year-old mummy, six people in a Kansas thrift store elected their own pope, and the fossils that once...
Watch the first season of Stranger Things in full 1980s pan-and-scan VHS glory
To celebrate what is somehow the tenth anniversary of Stranger Things, Netflix is turning up the nostalgia to 11 with Stranger Things: VHS special edition.
To celebrate what is somehow the tenth anniversary of Stranger Things, Netflix is t...
A clever trick to keep loose zip ties from turning into a tangle
A bag of loose zip ties always seems to collapse into the same knotted ball at the bottom of a drawer.
A bag of loose zip ties always seems to collapse into the same knotted ball at the bottom of a drawer. Writing in his latest Gar’s Tips...
Account of an accidental mushroom trip
Amanita muscaria — the red-and-white toadstool of fairy tales and Mario games — is poisonous raw, but boiling breaks down enough of its toxins that brave people around the world eat it.
Amanita muscaria — the red-and-white toadstool of fai...
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