Boing Boing, June 4, 2026

Iceman yeast sourdough and a wasp-hijacking beetle

Happy Thursday! Today scientists baked sourdough using yeast recovered from the body of Ötzi the Iceman, who died around 5,300 years ago, and called the result “very very good.” A beetle that hijacks wasps and impersonates them by smell, the Vietnamese monk who lived on coconuts, and a Stanford study where AI beat law professors in 75% of blind matchups…