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Why America Is Just Now Learning to Love Thaddeus Stevens, the ‘Best-Hated Man’ in U.S. History
smithsonianmag.com

Henry Kissinger, the Devil at the Dinner Party
nymag.com

Video: How Inertial Navigation Changed Air, Sea & Space Travel Forever [14:52]
youtube.com

One identical twin went vegan while the other didn’t. See what happened
cnn.com

A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity
quantamagazine.org

New Yorkers feel betrayed as police radio dispatches end: ‘You’d hear about nine shootings a day’
theguardian.com

Could Life Exist in Molecular Clouds?
universetoday.com

Puzzling new planet is too big for its sun, challenging dominant theories of planet formation
salon.com

One of the largest magnetic storms in history quantified: Aurorae covered much of the night sky from the Tropics to the Polar Regions
scienceblog.com • (see also)

Do we live in a giant void? It could solve the puzzle of the universe’s expansion
theconversation.com

Dolphins Can Sense Electric Fields, Which Isn’t That Shocking
nytimes.com

The Man Who Invented Fifteen Hundred Necktie Knots
newyorker.com

Video: You can’t bounce a ball under a table [12:53]
youtube.com

Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters
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NASA’s Next Space Mission Will Rely on Centuries-Old Aviation
inverse.com • (see also)

The Death of a Relic Hunter
newyorker.com

Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data
arstechnica.com • (see also)

Rare Giant Rat Is Photographed Alive for First Time
nytimes.com

The Evolutionary Origins of Psychedelics
time.com

Henry Kissinger’s bombing campaign likely killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians − and set path for the ravages of the Khmer Rouge
theconversation.com

Video: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [18:24]
youtube.com

Here’s How Artemis Astronauts Will Navigate on the Moon
eos.org

The New Quest to Control Evolution
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

Space junk surrounds Earth, posing a dangerous threat. But there is a way to turn the debris into opportunity
aeon.co • (see also)

When AI Hallucinates
nautil.us

Video: What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? [3:27]
youtube.com

Video: ‘I Explored China’s Failed $1 Billion Copy of Paris (real city)’ [20:09]
youtube.com

A 27,000-year-old pyramid? Controversy hits an extraordinary archaeological claim
nature.com

For the First Time Since ’65, the U.S. Military Will Blast a Nuclear Reactor Into Space
popularmechanics.com

Unwrapping Uranus and its icy secrets: What NASA would learn from a mission to a wild world
theconversation.com

Video: The Hindenburg Disaster – Dining on the Zeppelin [28:47]
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A Chinese Rocket Crashed Into the Moon … With a Mystery Object in Tow
popularmechanics.com

A Life-Extension Drug for Big Dogs Is Getting Closer to Reality
wired.com

Video: Why cheating is allowed on game shows [10:53]
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Nikola Tesla’s historic Wardenclyffe lab site at risk after devastating fire
arstechnica.com • (see also)

US says it foiled alleged plot to assassinate Sikh activist in New York
bbc.com

Video: How to Win a War with Cheap Drones [19:49]
youtube.com

AI can predict when massive rogue waves will strike next
livescience.com • (see also)

Video: The Internet is Worse Than Ever [11:36]
youtube.com

Scientists Study What Would Happen If a Rogue Star Crashed Through Our Solar System
futurism.com

Video: NASA’s Lucy Mission Makes an Unexpected Discovery at Dinkinesh [1:42]
youtube.com

Scientists discover rare six-planet system that moves in strange synchrony
phys.org

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