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 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, August 3, 2026
Psychedelic animals, $120,000 water, and a percussionist goat
 • Boing Boing
This 1940 time capsule came with its own windmill
Sealed in 1940 beneath Oglethorpe University in Georgia, the Crypt of Civilization is not to be opened until noon on May 28, 8113.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
America's health secretary borrows scientific credentials he does not have
Dana Bash returned RFK Jr.'s credential attack during a heated CNN interview about vaccines and autism.
 • Jason Weisberger
A man spent three days erasing himself on camera, then died on a beach
Peter Bergmann cut every label from his clothes and died on a Sligo beach in 2009. Still unidentified.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The world's only psychedelic animal lives in a cartel zone
The Sonoran Desert toad secretes 5-MeO-DMT, and collecting it means entering Mexican regions where kidnappings and cartel violence are common.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Grandpa Pudding Brains says his "REAL Polling Numbers" are his best ever
Donald Trump wrote 105 words about his "REAL Polling Numbers" without including a polling number.
 • Jason Weisberger
The world's most precise water costs $120,000 a gallon
Standardized in Vienna in 1966, VSMOW defined the kelvin until 2019 and still calibrates precision thermometers.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Bernie Moreno "held his breath" for two years before warning Congress about Max Miller
Sen. Bernie Moreno says Rep. Max Miller endangered his family for two years but only now publicly declared him unfit to serve in Congress.
 • Jason Weisberger
Trump Org's "woke debanking" lawsuit produced an anti-money-laundering filing
Capital One says months of anti-money-laundering analysis, not politics, led it to close more than 300 Trump-affiliated bank accounts.
 • Jason Weisberger
Japanese prints show tiny workers running the human body
Nineteenth-century ukiyo-e artists including Utagawa Kunisada made these health warnings, with a companion print staffing the female body.
 • Popkin
Goats, pigs, and chickens tuck themselves in every night
At Alyssa's Animal Sanctuary, goats, pigs, and chickens each head to their own tiny house at bedtime.
 • Jennifer Sandlin
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