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The New Orleans landmark that almost became Napoleon’s retirement home
bbc.com

The Nineteenth-Century Banjo
daily.jstor.org

After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
theverge.com

Megalodon and Leviathan: hyper carnivores or colossal weirdos?
cosmosmagazine.com

The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101 million award
technologyreview.com

Almost half the men surveyed think they could land a passenger plane. Experts disagree
theconversation.com

Hossenfelder vs Goff: Do electrons exist?
iai.tv

For the first time, we’re seeing views of China’s entire space station
arstechnica.com

What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister?
newyorker.com

Dark matter may be hiding in the Large Hadron Collider’s particle jets
space.com

Next Generation Space Telescopes Could Use Deformable Mirrors to Image Earth-Sized Worlds
universetoday.com

Scientists Intrigued by Carnivorous Fungus That Devours Worms
futurism.com

A father didn’t believe his daughter was dead. The hospital still harvested her organs
theguardian.com

There Aren’t Many Galaxies Like The Milky Way Nearby. Now We Know Why
universetoday.com

The 19th-Century Novel That Inspired a Communist Utopia on the American Frontier
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

Why alien life could be thriving on the “terminator line” of exoplanets
salon.com

On a Single Day, Two Men Are Cleared in Decades-Old Manhattan Murders
nytimes.com

Dust Is So Much More Than [most of us] Realize
wired.com

Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected
arstechnica.com

What is the ‘sunk cost fallacy’? Is it ever a good thing?
theconversation.com

Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons
quantamagazine.org

The world’s most powerful lasers attempting to unlock the secrets of the cosmos
bbc.com

How spacewalks can affect astronauts’ hands
sciencealert.com

Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space
spectrum.ieee.org

Cats have driven many species to extinction. Experts share tactics for reducing feline destruction
salon.com

The Low Down on the Greatest Dictionary Collection in the World
atlasobscura.com

What Today’s Migrant Crisis Looks Like to a Holocaust Refugee
nytimes.com

Brazil’s mysterious tunnels made by giant sloths
bbc.com

Historian debunks claims that Coco Chanel served in the French Resistance
france24.com • (see also)

World’s biggest iceberg moving beyond Antarctic waters
theguardian.com

The electronic noses designed to prevent food poisoning
bbc.com

‘I gave birth at 45. I didn’t know what it could cost me.’
slate.com

How NASA Keeps Ingenuity Going After More than 50 Flights
universetoday.com

Video: The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines [18:42]
youtube.com

You can’t even pay people to have more kids
vox.com

Super-hot Mercury may have glaciers at its pole
newatlas.com

Tyrian purple: The lost ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold
bbc.com

Why Won’t Governments Regulate AI?
zocalopublicsquare.org

European Basket-Making Is at Least 9,500 Years Old, When It Was Used to Hold Hunter Gatherers’ Valuables
discovermagazine.com

Redeeming the Old Maid
daily.jstor.org

Video: The Last Thing To Ever Happen In The Universe [11:04]
youtube.com

Complex, volatile coast makes preparing for tsunamis tough in Alaska
arstechnica.com • (see also)

Video: Why use many streetlights when one will do? [5:37]
youtube.com

‘I’m Serving Life in Prison. It’s a Slow-Motion Death Sentence’
rollingstone.com

ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
nature.com

Scientists can now tell where you’re looking by listening to your ears
newatlas.com

What does a sustainable smartphone look like?
bbc.com

Hydrogen discovered in Apollo-era moon rocks could change the future of lunar exploration
livescience.com

JWST takes regular selfies to check the status of the mirrors. This one was from yesterday
jwstfeed.com

Super high energy particle falls to Earth, source a mystery
digitaltrends.com

Honeybees cluster together when it’s cold – but we’ve been completely wrong about why
theconversation.com

It is Thanksgiving in the USA, so we are off until Monday. In the meantime, explore a wealth of interesting stuff here:
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NASA’s Webb Identifies Methane In an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere
blogs.nasa.gov

Video: A close look at the highest railway bridge in the world [04:49]
bbc.com

The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You’ll Never See
nytimes.com

Watch SpaceX Starship explode in stunning telescope footage (video)
space.com

How NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station
planetary.org

How Much Further Can Mining Go?
thewalrus.ca

Sophisticated swarming: Bacteria support each other across generations
phys.org

1st black hole ever imaged is losing energy through ‘lightsaber’ jets
space.com