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In 1973 a French journalist named Anne-France Dautheville became the first known woman to complete a motorcycle trip around the world all by herself. She was born in Paris in 1944 and began riding motorcycles in the late 1960s.

This cheat sheetshows you ways to store your fruit and vegetables that you might not have known about, and it is life-changing once you do. If you want your fruit and vegetables to last longer, then this is for you. - Read the rest The post Apples and bananas make everything near them ripen faster appeared first on Boing Boing.

This aluminum can compactor looks like a giant red robot monster, and I'm obsessed with it. Recycling is way more fun when you can feed it into the mouth of a giant creature that chomps it down. Art like this is awesome because it is interactive, fun to look at, and it helps the environment. - Read the rest The post This can crusher is a red robot monster with googly eyes appeared first on Boing Boing.

How Many People Are In Space Right Now doesn't have a question mark, but it does give the answer: 10 humans, as of Friday, September 18, 2026, all on the International Space Station and Tiangong space station.Aboard the ISS are Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway and Anil Menon of the U.S., - Read the rest The post Only four countries have humans in space right now appeared first on Boing Boing.

My RTX 3090 is at a board-level repair shop, and I'm not going to spend the kind of money a modern, already two-year-old video card costs to replace it if it's dead. I threw GeForce Now on my 2017 Linux/Windows laptop, and it seems to work better than my 24Gb Nvidia monster card, even when it was working. - Read the rest The post A ThinkPad T480 just replaced my RTX 3090 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Douglas Yao, a man claiming to have a degree in computational biology from Harvard, claims that he made a new schizophrenia drug that ChatGPT designed.https://x.com/DouglasYaoDY/status/2097377733466800489He said that he made it in a chemistry lab that he set up in his garage. - Read the rest The post Man says ChatGPT designed a schizophrenia drug he made in his garage appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Get the power of 50+ AI models in one app withAskAnyModel AI Pro Planfor just $39.99 (Reg. $499).You've been told countless times how efficient your AI stack is supposed to make you. But if you feel like you spend too much time toggling through tools or plugging queries into multiple AI dashboards, then you need to rethink your stack. - Read the rest The post Consolidate your AI apps for 91% off appeared first on Boing Boing.

Here's a cool Kickstarter project featuring the comic book art of Denis Kitchen, an underground comics publishing legend, founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and agent for both Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. Kitchen is best known as the publisher of Kitchen Sink Press, but he is also a great cartoonist. - Read the rest The post Kickstarter collects Denis Kitchen's underground comics in three risograph books appeared first on Boing Boing.

As a Slow Horses fan, I know the series is based on a book series, but I didn't realize the producers were about to catch up with the existing library.I keep meaning to borrow the first one and start reading Mick Herron's bestselling Slough House series. - Read the rest The post Apple's "Slow Horses" is running out of books appeared first on Boing Boing.

What will climate feel like in 60 years? shows the anticipated climate change for your town in 2086. Zoom into the world map, click a city, and it'll give you the weather report and link it to a place that has such a climate today, in 2026. - Read the rest The post What the weather might be like where you live in 2080 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Every time I think of this photo I saw on Reddit today, I start laughing. The photo shows an expectation vs. reality of a sleeping bag from Amazon. The photo in the advertisement shows a lifelike cat-themed sleeping bag that looks giant, fluffy and incredibly realistic. - Read the rest The post Amazon's giant fluffy cat sleeping bag turned out to be a thin sack appeared first on Boing Boing.

This photo of a classic glass maple syrup bottle was posted on the Things for Ants subreddit. This page shares ant-sized objects. The creepy idea here is that the tiny glass handle is just the right size for some little ants to sit inside of and eat the sugar (ew!). - Read the rest The post What is the tiny handle on a maple syrup bottle actually for? appeared first on Boing Boing.

Every time I think of this photo I saw on Reddit today, I start laughing. The photo shows an expectation vs. reality of a sleeping bag from Amazon. The photo in the advertisement shows a lifelike cat-themed sleeping bag that looks giant, fluffy and incredibly realistic. - Read the rest The post Amazon's giant fluffy cat sleeping bag turned out to be a thin sack appeared first on Boing Boing.

These photos show the stunning beauty of Saturn's north pole, which is shaped like a massive blue, swirling hexagon. This is definitely Saturn's fanciest detail. This six-sided jet stream pattern is called the Saturn Hexagon.

This tasty cookie is made from plastic soda bottles and farm waste, like corn stalks and leaves. And it is 3D printed.It's part of a NASA project to learn how to grow food in deep space, where there aren't many convenience stores, at least that we can tell. - Read the rest The post NASA-backed scientists 3D print cookies made from plastic soda bottles appeared first on Boing Boing.

The very handsy congressperson is accused of conducting at least one multi-year affair and two other sexual relationships inside her office.American Muckrakers accuses Boebert of having relationships with three senior employees, paying one of them a taxpayer-funded bonus allegedly tied to the relationship. - Read the rest The post Sworn ethics complaint accuses Boebert of sleeping with three staffers appeared first on Boing Boing.

A dad named Dave said he got called into a meeting with his boss to explain the $118,000 bill on his company credit card.The culprit was his 9-year-old son, who bought ads on YouTube to promote his Minecraft and Roblox videos. - Read the rest The post 9-year-old ran up a $118,000 bill on dad's company credit card appeared first on Boing Boing.

A 30-year-old Polish programmer, Pawel Szydlowski,built an appthat sends an alert if someone nearbyis using Meta's perv glasses.Szydlowski bought several pairs of the stealth video glasses, which are a favorite tool for incels who like to record women they harass and then post to Meta's Instagram site. - Read the rest The post Zuckoff app warns you when someone nearby is wearing Meta's perv glasses appeared first on Boing Boing.

Long derided for putting just about anything on a pizza, California has two pizzerias in the world's top 5, according to the Italian culinary guide "Top 50 Pizza."BBQ chicken pizza ain't so funny now, is it?

Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk ranted and raved that Grok would make a better, more "historically accurate" Odyssey than Christopher Nolan ever could, and held a contest to get others to do the work for him. His $100k grand prize winner has a three-eyed cyclops. - Read the rest The post Elon's "historically accurate" Grok-generated Odyssey has trouble counting Cyclops eyes appeared first on Boing Boing.

I kind of like magic shows, but I really like finding out how magician's tricks are done. For me, it's almost all the fun. It's not in the magician's best interest to have their tricks revealed, and they have a code (among themselves) to keep their secrets secret. - Read the rest The post How a real mentalist secretly rigs his mind-reading act appeared first on Boing Boing.

Maybe you learned that thousands of years ago, a now-extinct species of cheetah sped across the plains of North America. New genetic evidence shows that these animals weren't cheetahs, but were more closely related to American pumas. Paleontologists had been fooled by the animal's morphological similarity to African cheetahs, but it turns out that similarity was just an instance of convergent evolution. - Read the rest The post Ancient DNA shows the extinct American cheetah was really a puma appeared first on Boing Boing.

To this day, I can't think of the Republican National Convention without also thinking about Nick Lutsko's generational RNC song, which does more to capture the spirit of the median GOP voter than a million paid-off TikToks. It's an indictment of increasingly factional American politics, then, that Lutsko's intentional parody was wholly outdone by the RNC itself this year. - Read the rest The post The Good Liars find an RNC "Constitutionalist" who can't quote it appeared first on Boing Boing.

Apple's Dimensional Drawings site is a fascinating collection of images of some of its products. Not schematics but orthographic drawings of iPhones, iPads, the MacBook Neo, Apple Watches, AirPods and various accessories. Below, see some corners to check out on the watch; the roundrect has evolved into the squircle. - Read the rest The post Dimensional drawings of Apple gadgets appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Microsoft Visual Studio 2026is available until Sept. 20 at 11:59 p.m. PT. for just a one-time purchase of $29.97 (MSRP $499.99).Coding doesn't have to be the hold up anymore - fix bugs, use suggestions, and collaborate easily to code more quickly than ever withMicrosoft Visual Studio Professional. - Read the rest The post Code faster with Microsoft Visual Studio for $30 for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

I recently got a Portable Car Refrigeratorfrom Euhomy. This compact portable refrigerator can fit 19 liters of food and drinks. It's easy to move and carry, and it plugs into a regular wall outlet or your car's power outlet. My favorite thing about this refrigerator is that you don't need to add ice cubes, and you can even use it as a freezer by adjusting the temperature. - Read the rest The post This portable car fridge gets cold fast and stays quiet appeared first on Boing Boing.

Watch someone turn a tin of mints, some tape, black paint, and rolls of film into a DIY film camera on the go. They make it look so simple, but that's because it actually is. This is just their own take on a classic pinhole camera. - Read the rest The post Watch someone build a working film camera out of a mint tin appeared first on Boing Boing.

If leeches make you feel squeamish, then you will absolutely despise this video. The video starts out like a daredevil who knows what they're doing. They put their rubber boot into a pond filled with a disgustingly enormous amount of leeches. - Read the rest The post A boot dipped in a pond comes out covered in starving leeches appeared first on Boing Boing.

Watch someone turn a tin of mints, some tape, black paint, and rolls of film into a DIY film camera on the go. They make it look so simple, but that's because it actually is. This is just their own take on a classic pinhole camera. - Read the rest The post Watch someone build a working film camera out of a mint tin appeared first on Boing Boing.

I've been looking to try something outside the Amazon ecosystem for my color e-reader, and I wanted to add note-taking. The Boox Note Air6C looks really cool and is supposedly fast enough to use.Unlike Kindle and Kobo, Boox is an Android-based tablet that happens to use e-ink as its screen. - Read the rest The post Boox gives its color e-ink notepad a 40% speed boost appeared first on Boing Boing.

Suno is the "best" music-generating AI platform, at least as benchmarks have it, but the newest model launched last week to mixed reviews. On one hand, Suno v6 cranks out songs fast and they more closely meet the specifications in prompts. - Read the rest The post Mixed reviews for AI music generator Suno's industry-approved new model appeared first on Boing Boing.

This e-ink display is mounted in a picture frame and sits near a window overlooking a bird feeder in Arne Giacomo's yard in Bergen, Norway.A microphone next to the birdcage picks up visiting birds' tweets and sends them to the Raspberry Pi mounted in the picture frame. - Read the rest The post A picture frame that draws birds it hears out the window appeared first on Boing Boing.

Usenet-Rewind is the a vast archive of Usenet postings (previously at Boing Boing) covering text from 1981 to the present day. It contains 1,059,610,453 messages and has the "advanced search" features you're looking for.

When the Trump Administration proudly introduced its new Space Force uniforms, everyone thought they were very reminiscent of the Nazi SS, or just former immigration dunce Greg Bovino. Now we know why...Dozing Donald saw a clip from Starship Troopers and came away impressed by the uniforms. - Read the rest The post Trump wants Space Force to look like Starship Troopers. Paul Verhoeven would like him to know more appeared first on Boing Boing.

The trailer for a film about Sam Altman's dishonesty landed him a wild few days of being fired and rehired at ChatGPT.Altman is notably odd and off in most of his interviews. This movie trailer, however, fits a slasher far better than it does a story about Silicon Valley bloviating. - Read the rest The post Creepy Sam Altman biopic trailer feels more like a horror film appeared first on Boing Boing.

GAO estimates federal agencies spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave in 2025, including about $6.7 billion tied to DOGE's deferred resignation program. Good work, Elon.DOGE's celebrated plan to shrink the US government involved telling federal employees to stop working immediately, and they could keep collecting their salaries for months before resigning. - Read the rest The post DOGE spent $6.7 billion paying federal workers not to work appeared first on Boing Boing.

A gentleman allegedly reached for a gun to settle an argument and promptly shot himself in the leg. Paramedics patched him up, and then the police booked him.The thing about guns is they have only gotten more dangerous. Striker-fired pistols don't even have a hammer to warn you they are ready to go off, and trigger pulls are frequently down in the 3-4 lb range. - Read the rest The post Man allegedly reaches for a gun, immediately demonstrating one of the risks appeared first on Boing Boing.

Dolly Parton is being immortalized in corn mazes across the U.S. and Canada, a trend honoring the famed singer-songwriter and entrepreneur who died last month aged 80. At least twenty farms have created a maze of their own, each depicting the country legend and her flowing locks. - Read the rest The post Dolly Parton corn mazes popping up everywhere appeared first on Boing Boing.

Chester Zoo in England, delighting youngsters with its world-class menagerie since 1931, admits that tickets for a 'child predator tour' could have been worded better. The 90-minute bus ride features creatures such as tigers, lions and Komodo dragons, not Sidney Cooke or the embalmed corpse of Richard Huckle. - Read the rest The post Zoo offering 'child predator tour' apologizes for wording appeared first on Boing Boing.

Elias 2-24b is less than a million years old, writes Nasa's Ashley Balzer, making it the youngest planet yet observed by astronomers. Still "whirling in its natal disk of dust and gas," it orbits a similarly young orange dwarf 453 years from earth. - Read the rest The post Baby planet observed orbiting young star 453 light years from Earth appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Mashvisor's helps investors research properties nationwide, compare short- and long-term rental potential, estimate returns, and export findings to Excel for $199.99 for life (reg. $2,699).Browsing houses for fun is harmless. Browsing them with an investment property down payment ready gets expensive fast. - Read the rest The post Before buying a rental property, run the numbers with this $200 tool appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Ashampoo WinOptimizer Pro 29packs 30 tools for cleaning, tuning, troubleshooting, and managing Windows PCs, with a lifetime license for up to three devices on sale for $19.99 (reg. $50).Before you blame your aging laptop for everything, it might just need a good digital cleaning. - Read the rest The post Your sluggish Windows PC might just need a $20 cleanup appeared first on Boing Boing.

This close-up video of a snail munching on its dinner made my morning a lot better. It looks as if the snail's eyes are closed and it's falling asleep while eating its bedtime snack. I assume this is how I look when I get up in the middle of the night during a bout of insomnia to snack on something. - Read the rest The post A snail eating its dinner looks exactly like a grandpa without his dentures appeared first on Boing Boing.

Have you ever seen a wind turbine sway before? When I was little and I saw them moving back and forth in the wind, I would worry that the turbine was about to snap. Wind turbines actually sway to prevent this very thing from happening. - Read the rest The post Wind turbines sway on purpose so they don't snap in half appeared first on Boing Boing.

This video shows a pudu, the world's smallest species of deer, munching on some leaves. These adorable little creatures can be found in the rainforests of South America. They are solitary, elusive animals and mainly come out at dawn and dusk. - Read the rest The post The world's smallest deer has a big head and wobbly little legs appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Windows 11 Prois on sale for $9.97 (reg. $199) through Sept. 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT, with a lifetime license for one PC.Windows 10 isn't disappearing overnight. Microsoft has given users some additional time with Extended Security Updates, but those are primarily there to provide security patches, not new features, non-security fixes, or the broader support that comes with a current operating system. - Read the rest The post Still hanging onto Windows 10? Windows 11 Pro is $9.97 appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows bundlesWord, Excel, PowerPoint, and five more must-have apps into a single one-time purchase, on sale for $32.97 (reg. $219.99) through September 27.Nobody opens Word for fun, and no one has ever called a spreadsheet inspiring and meant it. - Read the rest The post Nobody loves Microsoft Office, but everyone still needs - $33 till Sept. 27 appeared first on Boing Boing.

The person measles killed was 18 years old. Pennsylvania health officials say the unvaccinated teenager died from complications of the disease, specifically a rare and severe neurological condition that causes inflammation in the brain. It is the fourth death associated with the state's growing measles outbreak in the last month. - Read the rest The post This time, measles cut an 18-year-old's life short appeared first on Boing Boing.

The bureau removed bestiality as an automatic employment disqualifier, which Patel says was necessary because trafficking victims forced into sexual acts involving animals had been rejected along with perpetrators. Because this happens frequently enough, the FBI needed a policy. While the MAGAs rage on about imagine child trafficking and library book reading crimes against humanity, it appears Kash Patel has quietly identified another: unwilling victims of forced bestiality were being unfairly rejected by the FBI. - Read the rest The post Senators would like Kash Patel to explain the FBI's new bestiality policy appeared first on Boing Boing.

After claiming he'd drawn a much larger audience than the NFL, Dozing-off Donald was betrayed by the actual ratings. I wonder if he calls them fake ratings."The overall numbers beat the NFL," Grandpa Pudding Brains declared after his Dallas convention, declining to identify what those numbers were or explain what "beat" meant. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains claims victory, loses to football by roughly 10-to-1 appeared first on Boing Boing.