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From viruses to ecosystems: explore life’s incredible size range
Size of Life is an educational website that displays the relative sizes of everything from DNA to entire ecosystems through detailed, hand-drawn…
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Popkin
Peppermint-stick insect: the mint-spraying rainforest bug
The peppermint-stick insect (Megacrania batesii) lurks deep in Australia’s rainforests and Papua New Guinea.
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Popkin
Meet the tongue-eating isopod, the parasite that literally becomes your tongue (if you’re a fish)
Want to learn about a truly horrifying parasite?
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Popkin
Fairytale mushrooms cause “lilliputian hallucinations” of tiny people
A popular wild mushroom sold in markets and restaurants in Yunnan, China, causes hallucinations of “little people” when undercooked.
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Gail P Sherman
Cyberpunk 2077’s five-year journey from disaster to must-play RPG
I can check the news, tally dates, and count my playtime hours, but it’s still hard to believe it’s been five years since Cyberpunk 2077 launched—one of…
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Grant St. Clair
He can’t keep getting away with it: Skyrim queued up for yet another rerelease
I want to get off Todd Howard’s wild ride, please.
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Grant St. Clair
Boing Boing, December 10, 2025
Florida man teleports into stolen BMW, reishi mushrooms sprout like alien antlers, and Canada gets schizophrenic about human rights
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Boing Boing
Storied WWII-era pistols now in hands of Ukrainian armed forces
Long-storied versions of John Moses Browning, the legendary American firearm designer’s iconic final creation, the Browning Hi-Power, have been sighted…
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Jason Weisberger
This frog eats murder hornets for breakfast
The murder hornet, also known by the less fun names Asian giant hornet, northern giant hornet, and Japanese giant hornet, is the largest hornet in the…
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Gail P Sherman
Eileen Higgins the first Democratic mayor of Miami in 27 years
Eileen Higgins has won Miami’s mayoral election, making her the first Democrat to govern the Florida city since thr 1990s.
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Rob Beschizza
Florida man claims he teleported into crashed, stolen BMW
A Florida man found at the wheel of a freshly-stolen and crashed BMW told Sheriff’s deputies that he teleported into the vehicle and was not responsible…
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Rob Beschizza
California urges mushroom lovers to try grocery stores instead of dying
California health officials have issued the world’s least‑hipster food advisory: stop plucking mysterious forest mushrooms and just buy them at Safeway.
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Jason Weisberger
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