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The government secretly injected a house painter with plutonium
Albert Stevens survived the highest known radiation dose: 6,400 rem over 20 years after a secret plutonium injection.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The designer of Voltron and the Power Rangers robots has died
Katsushi Murakami, who also designed the Go-Bots and Leopardon, died at the age of 83.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Kindle jailbreakers have a new way in with Véra
Released August 10 by developers Ava and sparklerfish, the exploit uses the e-reader's own web browser and two specially prepared books.
 • Jason Weisberger
Fringe paleontology gets weird fast
Tier 1 of an iceberg guide covers hoaxes, pseudoscience, and Chickenosaurus, a real bird-development experiment turned spectacle.
 • Jason Weisberger
English courts ban Meta glasses and other spywear
Devices will be confiscated on entry after a plaintiff, Laimonas Jakstys, used them to receive coaching while giving evidence.
 • Rob Beschizza
In this 1485 manuscript, people live inside giant snail shells
Robert Testard painted the scene for Charles d'Angoulême, depicting the island of Traponee near India where snails grow as big as houses.
 • Popkin
A Versailles painter drew people with the faces of animals
Charles le Brun matched human faces to animal heads in a 1671 lecture, printed in 1806 with 37 plates.
 • Popkin
A Siamese cat co-authored a physics paper in 1975
Physicist Jack Hetherington invented co-author F. D. C. Willard to avoid retyping a paper that used "we" throughout.
 • Popkin
Fans are cramming Undertale into EarthBound's Super Nintendo engine
The demake fittingly repays a debt, since developer Toby Fox drew heavily on the 1995 SNES classic when making the 2015 original.
 • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
The best Mario Kart build is an economics problem from 1900
The Mario Kart Pareto frontier trims thousands of builds down to the 4 parts that beat all rivals.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
9,000 people a year hunt a gold mine that geology says can't exist
The mine was named for Jacob Waltz, who confessed its location on his deathbed in 1891 and left a crude map that vanished with searcher Adolph Ruth.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, August 10, 2026
Iced dogs, ancient snowflake drawings, and a fatal wine complaint
 • Boing Boing
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