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Live map of Britain’s trains
Signalbox plots every train moving across Britain in real time (or close to it), each choo choo represented by a dot creeping along the lines.
 • Rob Beschizza
Anti-Forbes list ranks wealthy by the wealth their companies generated for others
The Anti-Forbes List ranks the richest humans not by their net worth (illiquid, volatile and unrealizable as it is) but by the value their companies…
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, July 16, 2026
Iceman sourdough, a thrift-store pope, and missing skulls
 • Boing Boing
Boing Boing Digest, July 16, 2026
Iceman sourdough, a thrift-store pope, and missing skulls
 • Boing Boing
Watch the first season of Stranger Things in full 1980s pan-and-scan VHS glory
To celebrate what is somehow the tenth anniversary of Stranger Things, Netflix is turning up the nostalgia to 11 with Stranger Things: VHS special…
 • Gail P Sherman
A clever trick to keep loose zip ties from turning into a tangle
A bag of loose zip ties always seems to collapse into the same knotted ball at the bottom of a drawer.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Account of an accidental mushroom trip
Amanita muscaria — the red-and-white toadstool of fairy tales and Mario games — is poisonous raw, but boiling breaks down enough of its toxins that…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Six of the tsars’ jeweled Fabergé eggs have never been found
Between 1885 and 1917, the House of Fabergé built 50 jeweled Easter eggs for the Russian tsars — lavish confections of gold, enamel, and gems, each…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The blurry sonar blob tabloids turned into a sunken UFO
In June 2011, a Swedish treasure-hunting team called OceanX returned from the Gulf of Bothnia with a blurry sonar image of something on the seafloor: a…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
An airline exec turned a jet around over nuts in a bag
On December 5, 2014, Korean Air Flight 086 was taxiing toward takeoff at JFK when it turned around and rolled back to the gate.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
American habits that baffle the French
Kimberly Wheeler moved her family from California to Aix-en-Provence three years ago, and she keeps getting the same small reaction from French…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Scientists baked sourdough with yeast from a 5,300-year-old mummy
Ötzi the Iceman died in the Alps roughly 5,300 years ago, and researchers have now used yeast recovered from his frozen body to bake sourdough bread.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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