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Boing Boing, May 6, 2026

Hamster wheels, plant heartbeats, and coyote-tooth dentures

May 06, 2026
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Happy Wednesday! Today’s lineup runs from a YouTuber charging his phone off his brother’s hamster to a 1926 demo where physicist Jagadish Bose claimed a snapdragon had a heartbeat. We’ve also got a 1940s miner’s homemade dentures (toothbrush handles, coyote teeth), a security researcher tearing apart the White House’s leaky app, and the man who got rich…

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