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Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos
theguardian.com

Were These Beetles Once as Valuable as Gemstones?
atlasobscura.com

Early Doctors Diagnosed Disease by Looking at Urine
daily.jstor.org

This week: 📚Compulsive book theft, 🚗digital car hacks, 🧬fugitive DNA
damninteresting.com

How the Best Underwater Photography Reveals a World of Wonder
atlasobscura.com

The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

Garbology is the study of trash. This is why students love it
npr.org

‘No one can deny it now’: death flight plane to be returned to Argentina
theguardian.com • (see also)

A Million Bodies Are Buried on Hart Island. Now It’s Becoming a Park.
nytimes.com

World’s Largest Bat Species Is the Size of a Human Child
mymodernmet.com

Last Stand of the Hot Dog King
grubstreet.com

‘City killer’ asteroid to pass harmlessly between Earth and moon
theguardian.com • Observe

Animals without a brain still form associative memories
arstechnica.com • (see also)

Gallery: Wedged Wondercars of the 1960s and 70s
mossandfog.com

An Ancient Document Breakthrough Could Reveal Untold Secrets of the Past
vice.com

The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa
theguardian.com

Video: Don’t Drop your Tools in Space [16:11]
youtube.com

Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face
arstechnica.com

Researchers turned superglue into a recyclable, cheap, oil-free plastic alternative
theconversation.com

Fish May Feel Each Other’s Fear Through the Same Mechanism That Drives Human Empathy
gizmodo.com

Wormhole Experiment Called Into Question
quantamagazine.org

Teen who lost half her brain when very young shows the power of neuroplasticity
npr.org • (see also)

Video: When you’re an ant but also a fungus tycoon [5:05]
youtube.com

How climate change is reshaping the Alps
bbc.com

How Ceres, the Largest “Dark Asteroid,” Survived the Inner Solar System
nautil.us

Video: “Firestone and the Warlord”: Iconic Tire Company’s History in Liberia [1:23:14]
youtube.com • (see also)

Charles Bronson could be ready for release, says former prison officer
bbc.com

Physicists Have Manipulated ‘Quantum Light’ For The First Time, in a Huge Breakthrough
sciencealert.com

NASA Is Tracking a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field
sciencealert.com

Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat
archive.is

Scientists think they know why interstellar object ‘Oumuamua moved so strangely
npr.org

Russia Appears to Be Deploying 75-Year-Old Tanks to Ukraine
vice.com

Video: Inside The Lab That Tests Elevator Free-Falls [14:42]
youtube.com • (see also)

Sailing crew rescued after giant whale sank 44ft boat in Pacific Ocean
theguardian.com

Why Does Our Sense of Taste Change As We Get Older?
discovermagazine.com

Beethoven’s genome sequenced from locks of his hair
cam.ac.uk

Galloping Grant: the day a sitting president of the US was arrested
theguardian.com • (see also)

Video: John Oliver discusses timeshares, how people get into them, why it’s so difficult to get out [25:31]
youtube.com

Revolutionary Gigapixel 3D Microscope Captures Life in Jaw-Dropping Detail
scitechdaily.com

James Webb telescope detects dust storm on distant world
bbc.com

‘Ghost Particles’: Scientists Finally Detect Neutrinos in Particle Collider
sciencealert.com

“By continually telling their children jokes that are so bad that they’re embarrassing, fathers may push their children’s limits for how much embarrassment they can handle.”
bps.org.uk • (see also)

Video: Could Chat GPT Talk to Whales? [20:51]
youtube.com • (see also)

Novel Drug Makes Mice Skinny Even on Sugary, Fatty Diet
neurosciencenews.com • (see also)

A New Mission Will Search for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri
universetoday.com

Hibernation for long human spaceflights is not sci-fi, scientists say
space.com • (see also)

Video: How Quantum Computers Break The Internet… Starting Now [24:28]
youtube.com

‘An o-o-old song’: Billy Waters, the African American musician who captivated 1820s London
theguardian.com

How Sensors Using Quantum Entanglement Could Improve Earthquake Detection
discovermagazine.com

Unexploded Rockets, Mines, and Grenades: Inside the Hunt to Destroy Lethal Ordnance in Ukraine
popularmechanics.com

Synthetic proteins simplify nature to outperform the real thing
newatlas.com

Gunned down and burned by the Nazis: the shocking true story of Bambi
theguardian.com

The Tinder car heist was a mess
theverge.com

Club-Wielding Ancestors: Myth or Reality?
sapiens.org

Who Was the Red Lady of Paviland?
atlasobscura.com

The 1,200 Buried Bones in the Benjamin Franklin House
discovermagazine.com

Obsidian Cliff: Humanity’s Tool Shed for the Last 11,500 Years
nytimes.com

Norton Space Props Was El Dorado for a Burgeoning Launch Industry
supercluster.com

Two moons of Uranus may have active subsurface oceans
space.com

Ancient marsupial sabertooth had eyes like no other mammal predator
livescience.com