The headline sounds like a prime candidate for Betteridge's Law, but a neurologist and his nightclub-director daughter are on it. Read the rest

Japan anticipates that falling birth rates and negligible immigration will result in population decline—as much as 1m a year. Millions of homes are already empty, reports Nomura Research, with a million in bad shape. Read the rest

Butterick's Practical Typography has been updated since the last time I linked to it and is always well-worth another read. The infinite-pixel screen, especially, has made "good fonts look fan­tas­tic, [while] bad fonts look worse."

When a bullet ant stings you it feels like you've been shot by a gun. In the above video, watch Dr. Read the rest

Wouldn't it be great if there was an 80's style action show, a la Knight Rider, Airwolf and Street Hawk—but where the special vehicle was wholly unsuited to heroic adventures and interventions? Read the rest

A quick but clever archive.org hack. Above, Reddit in 2007.

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It handles great. But can I get it in cornflower blue?

Police in Northumbria, England, have issued an appeal after a beach towel was callously taken by persons unknown from North Tyneside beach. Read the rest

Separated at birth … in the nuclear fires of Teegeeack.

God save the Queen. Read the rest

Captured at Katmai National Park in Alaska. (more…)

Magicpeacelove writes, "I've been in magic over 40 years and I can count on one hand (maybe with fingers left over) the number of times an act has completely blown me away. This is one of them." Read the rest

Chain reaction artists and domino builders have collaborated to create what they hope will go on record as the largest chain reaction in history. Read the rest

Two years ago today, Jonathan “Song A Day” Mann published this song. It's as timely as ever. (more…)

He did not like strawberry rhubarb. No. Not one bit. Read the rest

Los Angeles police are searching for the identity of this burglar, who accidentally shot and published a selfie with his victim's iPhone. Read the rest

NASA released more amazing space imagery and scientific data, slowly and steadily coming down to earth from the New Horizons space probe after its historic fly-by of Pluto. Read the rest

There are lots of how-to-roll-a-joint videos on YouTube, but this is one by Jolie Kerr (author of the household hints book, My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag) is one of the best. (If you find a better one, please post to comments.)

Colorado Springs police officer Tyler Walker said 18-year-old Alexis Acker was being “physically combative” and that she'd “kicked him in the groin area.” As a result, he had no other option other than to violently body-slam the handcuffed 100-pound teenager face down on a hard floor, knocking her teeth out. Read the rest

You Are A Horse is a Twine game where you are a horse. Who robs a bank. Read the rest

Susan Goldberg: “How cool is this? The @NASANewHorizons #Pluto team autographed our fab July @NatGeo cover, written by @nadiamdrake.”More: Pluto coverage on Boing Boing.

I bought this camera lens kit for the heck of it, because it cost only $3.14 including shipping, via Amazon. The package arrived from China. Read the rest

Ontario's Progressive Conservatives (PC) are calling for the removal of a collage titled "Sacred Circle VI" by French-Canadian artist Rosalie Maheux. Read the rest

Growing up as an Asian-American kid in Texas, Greg Pak loved Westerns and fantasy stories. He's bringing both to Kingsway Law, the tale of a Chinese gunslinger in an Old West overrun with magic. Read the rest

Fans of recursion rejoice: someone has put a playable version of Doom... inside Doom. Read the rest

Before reading this article about the Sphinx, I knew just three things about it: It was large, it was old, and it was in Egypt. Read the rest

A family ignored warning signs along a highway in South Africa, and ended up being held captive by a band of criminal baboons who ransacked their luggage for food. Read the rest

Peter from the National Coalition Against Censorship sez, "At a public hearing over whether or not to remove LGBT children's books from a public library, one mom's comments stole the show."

All ISS systems continued to operate normally while the Russian cosmonauts and NASA astronaut sheltered. Read the rest

“A key Interior technology official who had access to sensitive systems for over five years had lied about his education, submitting falsified college transcripts produced by an online service.” Read the rest

On Friday, July 31, Xeni, Jason, Mark, and the other folks helping to create our upcoming Weekend of Wonder (WoW) extravaganza will gather in a special Los Angeles location to eat tacos and have fun! Read the rest

Let's hope the man didn't damage those janitorial supplies when he slid in to them.

This no-pull dog harness turned my Great Pyrenees into a perfect gentleman! It also may have saved my rotator cuff.Read the rest

It looks like this fellow believed he could stop the train with the power of his mind, but at the last minute realized the train wasn't going comply with his command. He ends the performance by shaking his fist and uttering a curse at the disobedient train.

I'm not quite sure why Geoff McGhee describes these vintage-style charts of modern data as "steampunk," but they sure are gorgeous! Perhaps … lithopunk? Mimeopunk? [via]

YouTuber IncredibleScience has a great at-home science project that's kid-friendly: making waterproof sand. Read the rest

Taking the kids to see The Vamps? Might as well bust some old school moves and have more fun a than those bored dads at One Direction concerts. Read the rest

Artist Zhao Chuang rendered this cool illustration of a newly-discovered Zhenyuanlong. It was over six feet long and had copious feathers, as shown in a beautifully preserved Chinese fossil below. Read the rest

Artist Thomas Mailaender placed negatives from the Archive of Modern Conflict on models' skin, then irradiated it with UV light to create a sunburn print in his book Illustrated People. Read the rest

Reddit's proposed new policies continue its principled ideological commitment to ignoring problems. But it also wants to do something about copyright infringement. Perhaps Reddit can brush its white supremacy and rape advice subreddits under the rug! But can it live without copyrighted material? Get real, Reddit! Read the rest

A lot has changed since 1997. Read the rest

Stir hopes you'll be convinced. The Verge's Dan Seifert reports that "it’s hard to come away from the experience unimpressed." Read the rest

A "clerical error" allowed Charleston spree killer Dylann Roof's purchase of a firearm. Rep. James Clyburn wants the loophole that permitted this closed off. Read the rest