Boing Boing, July 17, 2026

A brain full of dogs, beams, and stolen airplanes

Happy Friday! Today’s stories: a paralyzed man’s brain implant lets him feed himself and pet his dog, a Soviet physicist took a particle accelerator beam through his skull and went back to work, and a homesick Air Force mechanic once stole a C-130 to fly home to his wife. Plus your brain tracking two voices at once, the sun that dimmed for 18 months in …