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Boing Boing, May 6, 2026
Hamster wheels, plant heartbeats, and coyote-tooth dentures
Newborn gosling leaps from an I-5 offramp into the Willamette River
Watch an adorable, fluffy newborn gosling take its first leap, and what a leap it is.
 • Popkin
Devils Hole pupfish: rarest fish on Earth lives in one Nevada cavern
This video shows the weirdness of the Devils Hole pupfish.
 • Popkin
His brother’s hamster is charging his phone now
A YouTuber going by Flamethrower spent nights listening to his brother’s new hamster squeak through the exercise wheel and decided to harvest the…
 • Popkin
1940s miner crafted dentures from toothbrush handles and coyote teeth
This unusual set of dentures was made in the 1940s by a California miner named George Washington Hancock, who couldn’t afford conventional dental care.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
The man who discovered microwaves measured a flower’s heartbeat in 1926
In August 1926, Jagadish Chandra Bose walked into an Oxford lecture hall carrying a snapdragon stem.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Simple app to make images look like they’re on an old CRT display
Everytime I want to make pixel art look old-timey, I find myself searching for and fussing with online filter sites that don’t look right, or trying to…
 • Rob Beschizza
Musk defends tweets that allegedly tanked Twitter stock before buyout
Elon Musk defended his conduct in federal court Thursday as former Twitter shareholders accused him of deliberately driving down the company’s stock…
 • Jason Weisberger
Security researcher tears apart White House app and finds a tracking and security nightmare
A security researcher who decompiled the White House’s new mobile app says it contains hidden GPS-tracking capabilities, weak security protections, and…
 • Jason Weisberger
Tom the Dancing Bug: A peek into the skull of Dementia Donnie
Tom the Dancing Bug: Dementia Donnie, in “Atrophy Case”
 • Ruben Bolling
Woman accused of drunken sidewalk chase after child on dirt bike
Authorities say a Spokane County woman drove onto a sidewalk and allegedly chased a child riding an electric dirt bike while intoxicated before later…
 • Jason Weisberger
Remember when digital cameras stored photos on floppy disks?
In this wonderfully self-aware 1990 episode of Tomorrow’s World, presenters revisit the futuristic photographic gadgets they’d hyped throughout the…
 • Jason Weisberger
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