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The Bitter Truth About Bitters
daily.jstor.org

Squashing Some Mosquito Myths
mcgill.ca

Danny Trejo on Doing Time with Charles Manson and Finding Freedom in the Boxing Room
lithub.com

The Science Behind Heat Waves
gizmodo.com

GPS at risk: Those signals are more vulnerable than you realize
cnet.com

Scientists Have Created a New Bendy And Flexible Form of Ice
sciencealert.com

NASA’s Mars helicopter captures these amazing color photos
thehill.com

How many atoms are in the observable universe?
livescience.com

Mystery of Jupiter’s powerful X-ray auroras finally solved
space.com

On this day in 1908 Victorian scientists first liquefied helium
dam.mn

This week: 💩 Fossilized poo bugs 🪞 Definition of a mirror ☢️ Radioactive boar-pig hybrids …and more!
damninteresting.com

Video: Real Story Behind The Apollo Program (Saturn V Documentary) [52:00]
youtube.com

Hackers Derail Iran’s Train System, Post Supreme Leader’s Phone Number as Help Line
gizmodo.com

Rare Albino Redwoods May Hold Clues to Ecosystem Health
atlasobscura.com

Finally, the truth behind the ‘haunted’ Dybbuk Box can be revealed
inputmag.com

What caused an old, giant star to disappear for over half a year?
syfy.com

Fish are becoming addicted to methamphetamines seeping into rivers
newscientist.com

Modular, floating tidal energy system passes a key “20-year test”
newatlas.com

‘We live in a desert. We have to act like it’: Las Vegas faces reality of drought
theguardian.com

On this day in 1962 the US Defense Atomic Support Agency and the Atomic Energy Commission exploded an atomic bomb in outer space
damninteresting.com

Hitler’s Noxious Plan to ‘Restructure’ Berlin
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

On this day in 1958 the largest recorded megatsunami occurred on the shores of Alaska
damninteresting.com

How a white mob lynched a Black man, destroyed a city – and got away with it
theguardian.com

He Couldn’t Remember That We Broke Up
nytimes.com • (see also)

The Story of Songbirds Is a Story of Sugar
theatlantic.com

Team develops quantum simulator with 256 qubits, largest of its kind ever created
phys.org

Goldilocks planets ‘with a tilt’ may develop more complex life
phys.org

Are Some Dogs Geniuses?
realclearscience.com

What fractals, Fibonacci, and the golden ratio have to do with cauliflower
arstechnica.com

‘We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals’
vice.com

How Voltaire Helped Spread the Legend of Europe’s Most Famous Prisoner, The Man in the Iron Mask
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The Pictures That Saved Yellowstone
discovermagazine.com

Electric catfish are immune to their own shocks
massivesci.com

From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOs
theconversation.com

A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake
nytimes.com

How Close Are We To The Holy Grail Of Room-Temperature Superconductors?
forbes.com • (see also)

In 2030, You Won’t Own Any Gadgets
gizmodo.com

Inside the FBI, Russia, and Ukraine’s failed cybercrime investigation
technologyreview.com

Top of the tree: Italian farmers grow world’s biggest ever cherry
theguardian.com

Maine Has a Dangerous, Small, and Very Itchy Problem
theatlantic.com

Mystery Solved: How Plant Cells Know When to Stop Growing
wired.com

What it’s like to live in a world where you are incapable of recognizing faces or places
saturdayeveningpost.com

“A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!” On the Rise and Fall of Radium in the Beauty Industry
lithub.com • (see also)

Chickpeas are in peril. Gene editing could save them.
expmag.com

Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
quantamagazine.org

The Bank Robbers Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight (Or Do Anything Right, Really)
narratively.com

The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth
theguardian.com

The Planets with the Giant Diamonds Inside
nautil.us

Scientists Studying Temperature at Which Humans Spontaneously Die With Increasing Urgency
vice.com

Video: Fans; High is next to Off on purpose [17:47]
youtube.com

How deep brain stimulation changes a person’s sense of confidence
aeon.co

The Space Shuttle Engines Will Rise Again
popularmechanics.com

Video: New Lakes Discovered Under Antarctic Ice with NASA’s ICESat-2 [1:55]
youtube.com • (see also)

It’s not just bad behavior – why social media design makes it hard to have constructive disagreements online
theconversation.com

Fear of an Insect Planet
daily.jstor.org

This star cluster is slowly being taken over by black holes. In a billion years they’ll kill it.
syfy.com

‘Social’ Mitochondria, Whispering Between Cells, Influence Health
quantamagazine.org

A shadowy birthplace may explain Jupiter’s strange chemistry
sciencenews.org

The U.S. Military Is Testing a Pill That Could Delay Aging
popularmechanics.com

Video: How Taiwan held off Covid-19, until it didn’t [9:40]
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