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Boing Boing, July 9, 2026
Sinning Bibles, mite cheese, and unexplained space rings
 • Boing Boing
The EU just approved a food additive that curbs weight gain
European regulators just approved a food additive designed to keep you from gaining weight. It’s inulin propionate ester, or IPE, cleared for sale in…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Meta patented a wearable that listens all day to guess your feelings
Meta has patented a wearable that listens to you all day and guesses how you feel. As 404 Media reports, the device would continuously record audio and…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed 600 and is reaching new provinces
Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak has killed 600 people and is now spreading into provinces that had been untouched. Authorities have logged 1,759 confirmed…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The novelist who co-founded the Paris Review was a CIA spy
The Paris Review was partly a CIA front, and one of its founders led a double life to match.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Mexican Government files charges against ICE for murder
At the time that this post was written, at least 50 individuals had died in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and…
Photographic memory is not real, but this guy’s brain came close enough to scare everyone
In 1929, a Moscow newspaper editor discovered that one of his reporters never wrote anything down because his brain was apparently already doing the…
 • Jason Weisberger
Sean Astin tells Congress AI should not get to steal your face
The future should not arrive wearing your face without permission.
 • Jason Weisberger
Mike Johnson likes birthright citizenship when it scores goals
Nothing says originalism like cheering the goal and booing the amendment.
 • Jason Weisberger
Astronomers keep finding giant radio rings in space they can’t explain
Astronomers keep finding enormous rings of radio light in deep space that nothing in the textbooks can account for.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A 1631 Bible accidentally ordered readers to commit adultery
The Wicked Bible is a 1631 reprint of the King James Bible that accidentally ordered its readers to sin.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
What is spontaneous human combustion, and is it real?
According to Wikipedia, spontaneous human combustion is the belief that a person can simply burst into flame from within, leaving the body burned to ash…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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