Archive - Boing Boing

Can eggs really unclog a sink? HowToBasic investigates

Surprise, it’s HowToBasic again!

just now • Grant St. Clair

Phasmophobia just got a lot darker with Alan Wake crossover

You remember Phasmophobia, right?

4 mins ago • Grant St. Clair

Someone turned the hardest game ever into a skating game

From Software’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is one of the most difficult mainstream games in recent history, demanding the twitchy reflexes of their…

7 mins ago • Mark Frauenfelder

Is Lana Del Rey’s “First Light” the best Bond song in years?

Any game that promises to be the full James Bond experience, like IO Interactive’s upcoming 007: First Light, has a few obvious boxes to check.

1 hr ago • Grant St. Clair

Kash Patel sues The Atlantic over story claiming he often drunk or missing at work

Last week, The Atlantic published a bombshell story about Kashyap “Ka$h” Patel’s dismal tenure as FBI Director, writing that insiders there say he is…

3 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

NASA’s Artemis II images—and a phone video

NASA’s high-resolution image galleries show the successful Artemis II mission to the moon, in which four astronauts slingshotted around Earth’s…

3 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

Bedfordshire chosen as England’s worst county

Bedfordshire, famed for its stately homes and wildlife parks, for the delicious Bedfordshire Clanger pastry, the Shuttleworth Collection of vintage…

4 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing, April 17, 2026

Vanished viruses, Viking gold, and meowing pilots

Apr 17 • Boing Boing

Air New Zealand economy bunk beds cost $291, ban snacks and perfume

Apr 17 • Ellsworth Toohey

Mice that ate artificial sweeteners passed metabolic changes to their grandchildren

Grandchildren of mice fed artificial sweeteners showed altered glucose tolerance and shifts in gut microbiome composition — even though those…

Apr 17 • Ellsworth Toohey

709 vials of dangerous viruses vanished from a high-security Brazilian lab

Someone walked out of a laboratory in Belém, Brazil, with 709 vials of dangerous viruses — including samples of Eastern equine encephalitis and…

Apr 17 • Ellsworth Toohey

Arthur C. Clarke predicted remote work, telesurgery, and mobile phones in 1964

Sixty-two years ago, Arthur C.

Apr 17 • Ellsworth Toohey

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