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Woman’s Rare Disease Causes Her to Stiffen and Fall After a Sudden Noise
realclearscience.com • (see also)

The most important computer you’ve never heard of
arstechnica.com

James Webb Space Telescope completes tricky sunshield deployment
space.com

The Dirty Work of Cleaning Online Reputations
thewalrus.ca

To Study the Next Earth, NASA May Need to Throw Some Shade
wired.com

An Injection of Chaos Solves Decades-Old Fluid Mystery
quantamagazine.org

How could the Big Bang arise from nothing?
theconversation.com

NASA’s Chief Scientist Quits, Says He Has a Plan to Terraform Mars
futurism.com

200 years ago today a man named Beale signed a cryptic letter that marked the beginning of a still-unsolved mystery
damninteresting.com

In VR, You Can Become Your Own Psychologist
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How Body Farms and Human Composting Can Help Communities
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Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy
quantamagazine.org

New patent-free COVID vaccine developed as “gift to the world”
newatlas.com

The Long Afterlife of a Terrible Crime
newyorker.com

Have scientists cracked the best way to drink champagne?
bbc.com

The Truth About Prohibition
theatlantic.com

Study: People Who Fall for Pseudoscience Use Less Evidence to Reach Conclusions
realclearscience.com

Could Being Cold Actually Be Good for You?
wired.com

Super poo: the emerging science of stool transplants and designer gut bacteria
theguardian.com

Quantum imaging: Pushing the boundaries of optics
phys.org

On the misunderstood psychology of tribalism
theatlantic.com

Scientists Settled a Century-Old Family Drama Using DNA From Postcards
wired.com

On the potential stability of tetra-neutronium
science20.com

What if Math Is a Fundamental Part of Nature, Not Something Humans Came Up With?
sciencealert.com

The History of the Graphical User Interface — 1945 to 1980
lunduke.substack.com

Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
theguardian.com • (see also)

Our article ‘The Traveller and His Baggage’ was among The Browser’s Best of 2021. Woohoo!
thebrowser.com

Why 2021 Was the Quickest Year Ever on Record
newsweek.com

High-resolution lab experiments show how cells ‘eat’
phys.org

New Atlas’s best photography of 2021
newatlas.com

We will be mostly offline until 03 January 2022. Here is a link to enjoy a random evergreen article from our curated section
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What does future warfare look like? It’s here already
bbc.com

America Once Experimented with Building Concrete Ships. Here’s Why It Didn’t Pan Out
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

Video: Why the James Webb Space Telescope looks like that [11:12]
youtube.com

FDA-approved eyedrops could replace reading glasses for $80 a month
nationalpost.com

Did Benjamin Franklin really discover electricity with a kite and key?
livescience.com

New Calculations Show That an Interstellar Bussard Ramjet Drive Would Need a Magnetic Field Stretching 150 Million Kilometres
universetoday.com

How a handful of prehistoric geniuses launched humanity’s technological revolution
theconversation.com

‘Fat Leonard’ podcasters release unaired recordings to public after subpoena order
sandiegouniontribune.com

Video: The Largest Small Hexagon [5:46]
youtube.com

Ancient human DNA found in ‘nit glue’, say scientists
independent.co.uk

A Neuroscientist Prepares for Death
theatlantic.com

On this day in 1916 Grigory Rasputin finally succumbed to poison, beating, bullets, and drowning
damninteresting.com

High-Speed Impacts May Have Shaped Venus’ History – And Explain Why It Is Uninhabitable
scitechdaily.com

Railway lines once connected the Middle East
archive.fo

Why Do We Count Down to the New Year?
zocalopublicsquare.org

Kidnapped as a Boy, This Man’s Hand-Drawn Map of Home Helped Him Find His Mom
vice.com

Wounded Knee Massacre: Why Did The US Army Attack The Lakota Sioux?
historyextra.com

Webb continues to unfold; has enough fuel for over a decade
arstechnica.com

How to Build a Particle Collider on the Moon—And Why We Should
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

Physicists are rethinking how we measure time
inverse.com

A Weird Paper Tests The Limits of Science by Claiming Octopuses Came From Space
sciencealert.com

Nasal spray to prevent COVID infection begins clinical trials
newatlas.com

Man Bedridden with Mysterious Disease Invents Surgery to Cure Himself
people.com

There’s a Rare Hallucination That Makes You See Tiny People, And Nobody Knows Why
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Tiny tardigrades walk like insects 500,000 times their size
arstechnica.com

Researchers capture high-frequency oscillations in the gigantic eruption of a neutron star
phys.org

MIT Scientists Design a ‘Flying Saucer’ That Could Float Across The Moon
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World’s oldest family tree created using DNA
bbc.com

Psyche: NASA Mission to a Metal World
spectrum.ieee.org