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This week: Reviving the corpse flower, lasso snakes, pack-hunting eels, and more
damninteresting.com

The ‘Hollywood Con Queen’ Who Scammed Aspiring Stars Out of Hundreds of Thousands
vice.com

Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell—on North Carolina
nationalgeographic.com

The Mona Lisa Wasn’t Really That Famous Until It Was Stolen in 1911
crimereads.com

Astronomers discover first cloudless, Jupiter-like planet
eurekalert.org

Royal Air Force Turned A Torpedo Bomber Into A Flying Flamethrower During World War II
thedrive.com

Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores
newatlas.com

“Hard Times Tokens” Were Not One Cent
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

Plant Cells of Different Species Can Swap Organelles
quantamagazine.org

Why you’re more creative in coffee shops
bbc.com

Is This a Fossilized Lair of the Dreaded Bobbit Worm?
wired.com • (see also)

When was money invented? Bronze Age study has the answer
inverse.com

Scientists set up mantis ‘gladiator matches’ to see why some males keep their heads after sex
livescience.com

Why Do We Assume Extraterrestrials Might Want to Visit Us?
scientificamerican.com

Duracell PowerCheck History: An Energizer of a Battery Patent Battle
tedium.co

Great blue herons are seeking safety by nesting beside predatory eagles. Researchers call it the “mafia protection racket”
hakaimagazine.com

Supercomputer Simulations Reveal the Power Inside a Supernova
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

The Heroines of Halifax and The World’s Greatest Explosion
narratively.com • (see also)

Scientists confirm “Habsburg jaw” is the result of royal inbreeding
zmescience.com

Paleontologists may have found the largest dinosaur of all time
salon.com

Your Cat Isn’t Just Getting High Off Catnip
nytimes.com

Who Invented Chess and When Did it Start Being Played?
historyhit.com

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