Officials at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City say doctors there are treating a patient who may have Ebola.

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The Hildale, Utah compound built for jailed FLDS Church pedophile polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs and now owned by his former bodyguard has just opened as a hotel, called America's Most Wanted Suites and Bed & Breakfast.

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A short film by San Francisco-based artist, GIF-crafter, and filmmaker Bill Domonkos. (more…)

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In 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr urged Nichelle Nichols to stay in her post as Lt. Uhura on Star Trek because she was an important and all-too-rare positive TV role model for black people.

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I'm so far along in fixing up my 1975 R75/6 that I decided to clean its tool kit.

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Kent Brantly, a doctor who contracted Ebola in Liberia, shown with colleagues in this undated photograph provided by Samaritan's Purse. Samaritan's Purse//Reuters

CNN reports that an experimental treatment for Ebola known as ZMapp was "flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola." So far, it has worked: both are still alive.

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California Institute of Technology scientists developed a chemical technique to make dead mice transparent to help researchers see how disease spreads through the body, map the nervous system, and other projects. Read the rest

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David Bowie's Heroes cover art could have been one of these other photos by Masayoshi Sukita. Read the rest

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"The latest quadcopter from toy 'drone' maker Parrot is the palm-sized $100 Rolling Spider," writes Wilson Rothman for the WSJ. (more…)

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Heads of state attending The US-Africa Leaders Summit, held today through August 6, will first be screened to make sure they don't test positive for Ebola. Read the rest

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Psychedelic TV ad from 1972 for Wurlitzer's Orbit III organ: "It may just change your mind!" (via Weird Universe)

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This Sunday, August 3rd, at Lost Weekend Video in San Francisco, the soon to be newest member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network will be taping a show.

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This spot for TD Canada is probably the most compelling contemporary advertisement for a financial institution I've ever seen. Hats off to the creative team behind it. Read the rest

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A very helpful chart with which to manage the outbreak of Ebola panic on social media. (more…)

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CNN reports that an American doctor who contracted Ebola in West Africa, where he worked for a medical charity, has been transported to Emory Hospital in Atlanta.

"A specially equipped medical plane whisked Ebola-stricken Dr. Kent Brantly from Liberia to Georgia on Saturday," the network reports. Read the rest

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"Water at a Toledo, Ohio, treatment plant has tested positive for a dangerous toxin, and nearly 500,000 Ohio residents have been told not drink the tap water," reports the Los Angeles Times.

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"The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s scathing report on the genesis and efficacy of the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program was finally returned to the committee Friday after going through a months-long multi-agency declassification review," writes Jason Leopold at Vice News. Read the rest

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Photographer, technologist, and Boing Boing reader Christopher Michel shot this wonderful image in Antarctica, and very kindly shared it in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, which you can also do with any awesome images you shoot.

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"Diamond Stewart’s 4-year-old son was also pepper sprayed, the family said." Fuck the police. [via @mollycrabapple]

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Boing Boing reader Soggydan Benenovitch shot this wonderful photo of a "chocolate based shaded english cream long haired miniature dachshund puppy" and shared it in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Read the rest

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