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How Americans secretly used Soviet aircraft
rbth.com

Humans could move to this floating asteroid belt colony in the next 15 years, astrophysicist says
livescience.com

Scientists Created Microscopic Mushroom Shapes for Quieter Velcro
gizmodo.com

The International Tempest Over the World’s Most Famous Teapot
thewalrus.ca

‘One of a kind’: calls to protect Alabama’s 60,000-year-old underwater forest
theguardian.com

A brief history of the inaugural ceremonies that set our traditions—and later broke them
nationalgeographic.com

Scientists have finally worked out how butterflies fly
cnn.com

Have We Already Been Visited by Aliens?
newyorker.com

New curio by Alan Bellows: It Makes One’s Head Swim
dam.mn

A reconstruction of the only fossilised dinosaur cloaca in existence may help illuminate how the prehistoric animals mated
newscientist.com

Scientists find amazing 5,000-year-old crystal dagger in Spain
zmescience.com

The definitive story of Wikipedia on its 20th anniversary
onezero.medium.com

A neutron-star crash spotted 3 years ago is still pumping out X-rays. But why?
space.com

Mexico archaeologists reveal tale of cannibalism and reprisal from conquest
theguardian.com

The Epic Hunt for One of the World’s Most Wanted Men
gq.com

How one musician took on the world’s biggest TV network over copyright—and won
arstechnica.com • (see also)

A German Klan in the Weimar Republic
daily.jstor.org

The Careful Work of Breathing Life Into the Corpse Flower
atlasobscura.com

13-foot-long ‘Book of the Dead’ scroll found in burial shaft in Egypt
livescience.com

A Bitter Archaeological Feud Over an Ancient Vision of the Cosmos
nytimes.com

The viruses that prey on human diseases
bbc.com

This Extremely Fluffy Exoplanet Is Changing Our Understanding of Planetary Formation
sciencealert.com

Tech Companies Are Profiling Us From Before Birth
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Why The Recent Signal That Appeared to Come From Proxima Centauri Almost Certainly Didn’t
discovermagazine.com

The Terrifying History of Russia’s Nuclear Submarine Graveyard
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

These Frankenplanes Are Built From Parts of Other Planes
airspacemag.com

Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government
bbc.com

Video: Why are British place names so hard to pronounce? [8:13]
youtube.com

The Secret Society of Lightning Strike Survivors
narratively.com • (see also)

Nazi Ravensbrück camp: How ordinary women became SS torturers
bbc.com

When the FBI Spied on MLK
theatlantic.com

‘I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music’
nytimes.com

Del Monte $20 bill set to sell for nearly $60,000
theguardian.com

Designer protein helps paralyzed mice walk again in breakthrough study
newatlas.com

Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend?
nautil.us • (see also)

‘My Sister Was Disappeared 43 Years Ago’
theatlantic.com

Stromatolites: The Earth’s oldest living lifeforms
bbc.com • (see also)

Caligula’s Garden of Delights, Unearthed and Restored
nytimes.com

The World’s Oldest Story? Astronomers Say Global Myths About ‘Seven Sisters’ Stars May Reach Back 100,000 Years
singularityhub.com

The status of supersymmetry
symmetrymagazine.org

New video reveals electric eels joining forces for a successful fishing trip
syfy.com

A brief history of some of America’s most fraught presidential transitions
nationalgeographic.com

Napoleon’s defeat in Egypt gave birth to Egyptology
nationalgeographic.com

Can This Group Revive the Finicky Corpse Flower?
wired.com

Nepalese team makes first successful winter ascent of K2
theguardian.com

WHO team in China: Searching for coronavirus′ birthplace
dw.com • (see also)

DRC: How the CIA got Patrice Lumumba
theafricareport.com • (see also)

Toronto man returns 10-year old girl’s private diary … 38 years later
cbc.ca

A New Drug for Peanut Allergies Is Offering Hope for Food Allergy Sufferers
discovermagazine.com

The Crooked Geometry of Round Trips
quantamagazine.org

The rise and fall (and rise again) of retro car design
arstechnica.com

That time private US media companies stepped in to silence the falsehoods and incitements of a major public figure … in 1938
theconversation.com

How Medieval Europe Finally Ditched Roman Numerals
discovermagazine.com

This Black Hole Is Really Taking Its Time Eating a Poor Star
gizmodo.com

How the Civil War Got Its Name
daily.jstor.org

Enormous pigeon-eating catfish wreaking havoc on Europe’s ecosystems
nationalgeographic.com

On this day in 1919 a giant molasses tank exploded in Boston
damninteresting.com

The secret letters of history’s first-known businesswomen
bbc.com

100 days of warning: inside the Boogaloo killings of US law enforcement
theguardian.com

Happy 20th birthday, Wikipedia!
diff.wikimedia.org