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When we see what others do, our brain sees not what we see, but what we expect
nin.nl • (see also)

Union Pacific Fired Him Rather Than Heed His Warnings of Dangerous Rail Conditions
propublica.org

Hedge Fund Tycoon Anthony Clake Doubles as World’s Top Deep-Sea Treasure Hunter
archive.ph

Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem
nautil.us

For The First Time, an Eerie Green Glow Has Been Detected in The Night Sky of Mars
sciencealert.com

AppHarvest promised Kentucky green jobs. It delivered ‘hell on earth.’
grist.org

Video: Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [1:05:05]
youtube.com

This week: Typhoid Mary, Newton’s cure for the plague, the death of dengue, and more!
damninteresting.com

New Device Can Keep Brain Alive for Hours Without Body
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How mathematics built the modern world
worksinprogress.co

Scientists Have Been Freezing Corals for Decades. Now They’re Learning How to Wake Them Up
wired.com • (see also)

Video: ‘Why I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger’ [4:51]
youtube.com

Rocket that slammed into the moon last year ID’ed as Chinese vehicle
space.com

Extreme Drop in Oxygen Will One Day Suffocate Most Life on Earth
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The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences
quantamagazine.org

A love letter to timekeeping: How clocks have shaped our world
bbc.com

Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You’ve Never Heard Of
scientificamerican.com

The Hunt for Life in Alpha Centauri
daily.jstor.org

‘Astounding’: Alabama woman with two uteruses is pregnant in both wombs
theguardian.com • (see also)

Simple Formula Makes Prime Numbers Easy, but a Million-Dollar Mystery Remains
scientificamerican.com

See What Your Brain Does When You Look at Art
smithsonianmag.com

So Thieves Nabbed Your Catalytic Converter. Here’s Where It Ended Up.
nytimes.com

What If Money Expired?
noemamag.com

Video: What The Longest-Running Study on Happiness Reveals [23:25]
youtube.com

America’s National Parks in the Quiet of the Pandemic
nautil.us

Video: The Last Gunners: For 75 years, snowy mornings at Alta Ski Area were ruptured by the reverberation of heavy artillery [7:17]
youtube.com

A lull in Russian bombing has let Kyiv residents rediscover the joys of a good night’s sleep
nytimes.com • (see also)

On this day in 1974, NASA used the Arecibo radio telescope to blast a message to globular star cluster M13
damninteresting.com

Magnets, How Do They Work? On the Magic of Magnetic Force
lithub.com

How Cabinets of Curiosities Laid the Foundation for Modern Museums
smithsonianmag.com

‘I’m An Insurance Adjuster And I’m Going To Total Your Car (And Hate Doing It)’
theautopian.com

Hubble measures the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet
techexplorist.com

From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
arstechnica.com

Scientists find new way to supercharge lasers by a million times
interestingengineering.com

These Cells Spark Electricity in the Brain. They’re Not Neurons
nautil.us

Nitrogen wars: the Dutch farmers’ revolt that turned a nation upside-down
theguardian.com

Scientists Invented a Synthetic Inner Ear So People Won’t Get Lost in Space
discovermagazine.com

People think white AI-generated faces are more real than actual photos, study says
arstechnica.com

Millions of adults could be wrongly diagnosed with high blood pressure
newatlas.com

The Shocking Sex Lives of Electric Eels in Brazil
atlasobscura.com

Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built
newyorker.com

The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story
wired.com

Video: How to Win an Interstellar War [12:42]
youtube.com

World-first automatic safety system lands a helicopter without power
newatlas.com

How Black Holes Consume Entropy
universetoday.com

Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go
spectrum.ieee.org

Fossils Are Shaped by People. Does That Matter?
undark.org

Magicians less prone to mental illness – study
bbc.com

This dead star is bursting back to life
space.com

Is it possible to really understand someone else’s mind?
technologyreview.com

Time-Traveling Tremors: Some of Today’s Earthquakes May Be Aftershocks From the 1800s
scitechdaily.com

James Webb Space Telescope reveals sandy surprise in distant exoplanet
space.com

‘Bouncing’ comets may be able to spread life throughout the universe
space.com

She lived in a New York hotel for more than 40 years. But her life was a mystery
npr.org

Time travel: What if you met your future self?
bbc.com

Plane turns back to JFK after horse escapes on board
cnn.com

Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower high cholesterol
arstechnica.com

The Biggest Questions: How did life begin?
technologyreview.com

Record Space Explosion Was So Powerful It Shook Earth’s Atmosphere
sciencealert.com

The ‘Impossible’ Quantum Drive That Defies Known Laws of Physics was Just Launched into Space
thedebrief.org