Boing Boing, August 11, 2026

Plutonium injections, giant snail shells, and an impossible gold mine

Aug 11, 2026

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Happy Tuesday! Today's stories: The government secretly injected a house painter with plutonium. An Australian crew completed an extraordinary medical evacuation from Antarctica. English courts have banned Meta glasses and other recording devices from proceedings. And around 9,000 people a year search for a gold mine that geology says cannot exist. We a…

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