Boing Boing, April 30, 2026
RIP Craig Venter, ancient honey, DIY atomic clock
Happy Thursday! Synthetic biology pioneer Craig Venter died at 79. A hobbyist stacked a chip-scale cesium atomic clock on his Raspberry Pi, Egyptian tomb honey is still edible after 3,000 years, and a computer scientist beat textbook binary search by more than 2x. Also: how a retired technician handed EFF the proof of NSA mass spying, and Maryland becom…
