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On this day in 1951 a pipe bomb exploded in Grand Central Terminal. It was merely the first of many.
damninteresting.com

One Man’s Quest to Revive the Great American Vacuum Tube
wired.com

Company Serves World’s First ‘Mammoth’ Meatball, But Nobody Is Allowed to Eat It
sciencealert.com

Scientists identify secret ingredient in da Vinci paintings
us.cnn.com

California’s ‘phantom lake’ returns with a vengeance, unearthing a bitter history of water
news.yahoo.com

‘I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating’
nytimes.com

Scientists erupt at NASA gutting funding for crucial Venus mission
theverge.com

Winged messengers: how first-class pigeons help police keep Indians safe
theguardian.com • (see also)

The Winners of Smithsonian Magazine’s 20th Annual Photo Contest
smithsonianmag.com

Is Snake Island in Brazil as Dangerous as It Sounds?
discovermagazine.com

Nokia Is Sending 4G Internet to the Moon
gizmodo.com

What Happens When You Get Struck By Lightning?
discovermagazine.com • (see also)

Physicists Might Finally Be Able to Find Wormholes, Thanks to Their Light-Bending Ability
popularmechanics.com

With AI, Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way
quantamagazine.org

How Did a Medieval Spice Cabinet Survive 500 Years Underwater?
atlasobscura.com

Chicha: The banned drink of Colombia
bbc.com

What Time Is It on the Moon?
wired.com

Does GPT-4 Really Understand What We’re Saying?
nautil.us

Contamination Prevention Is Key as NASA Preps for Incoming Asteroid Samples
gizmodo.com

Strange-shaped sea mountain discovered off the coast of Northern California
sfgate.com

AI Can Recreate Images From Human Brain Waves
petapixel.com

Amateur Australian gold digger finds massive nugget
bbc.com

Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery
theguardian.com

New original Damn Interesting article/episode by Matt Castle: In 1970s Bali, a sudden rice crisis prompted an unexpectedly far-reaching scientific discovery
dam.mn

Here is the FBI’s Contract to Buy Mass Internet Data
vice.com

Video: The Conman Who Faked His Death to Avoid Bankruptcy [10:36]
youtube.com

James Webb Space Telescope finds no atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet
space.com

There may have been a second Big Bang, new research suggests
livescience.com

Murder in the Air? The Mysterious Death of Stunt Pilot B.H. DeLay
crimereads.com

Glass beads on moon’s surface may hold billions of tonnes of water, scientists say
theguardian.com

Would building a Dyson sphere be worth it? We ran the numbers.
arstechnica.com

Kia Soul Gets Launched Into Orbit By Runaway Tire in Shocking Highway Crash
thedrive.com

Kerala: A ghost town in the world’s most populated country
bbc.com

The First Criminal Conviction Based on Fingerprint Evidence
discovermagazine.com

Chinese Moon Mission Finds a Potential Water Reservoir in Lunar Soil
gizmodo.com

Video: ‘I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage’ [4:35]
youtube.com

AI isn’t close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphize it
theconversation.com

Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter May Exist. Here’s How We Can Find Them.
sciencealert.com

Drugs and alcohol do not make you more creative, research finds
theguardian.com

Video: Why does this nonsense phrase appear in so many old newspapers? [9:12]
youtube.com

How Copper Deposits Turned a Village Into One of the Most Important Trade Hubs of the Late Bronze Age
scitechdaily.com

Chia seedlings verify Alan Turing’s ideas about patterns in nature
sciencenews.org

Why French Authorities Placed a Young Pablo Picasso Under Surveillance
smithsonianmag.com

What is Kyawthuite? The Rarest Mineral on Earth is a Single 1.6-Carat Specimen.
twistedsifter.com

Patients given aripiprazole ‘should be told of gambling addiction risks’
theguardian.com

Scenes from West Reading chocolate factory explosion
inquirer.com

Video: Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist featuring Carl Sagan [03:50]
vimeo.com

The Mystery of This Petroglyph-Covered Alaskan Beach
smithsonianmag.com

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
propublica.org

2 megamouth sharks caught on video for the 1st time ever
livescience.com

A Rogue Earth and Neptune Might Have Been Found in Older Data
universetoday.com

The “Stonehenge calendar” shown to be a modern construct
eurekalert.org

2 dead, 5 missing after Pennsylvania chocolate factory explodes
axios.com

‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood
theguardian.com

Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space
theguardian.com

New York City’s Iconic Flatiron Building Sells for $190 Million at Auction
smithsonianmag.com

Mirrors were Invented in 1835. So What Did We Do Before?
messynessychic.com

Nefarious Intentions and Persecuted Victims: On the Rise of Conspiracy Theories
lithub.com

US teens say they have new proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theorem
theguardian.com

Time and the Laundering of History
americandreaming.substack.com