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Boing Boing, July 16, 2026

Iceman sourdough, a thrift-store pope, and missing skulls

Boing Boing
Jul 16, 2026
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Happy Thursday! Today’s stories: scientists baked bread with yeast from a 5,300-year-old mummy, six people in a Kansas thrift store elected their own pope, and the fossils that once anchored the theory of human evolution have been missing since 1941. Plus Cuba’s switch to solar tuk-tuks, an “invisible facelift” that moves like a Halloween mask, and Spik…

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