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The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting
nytimes.com

Beautiful Vintage Board Games From the 16th to 20th Centuries
flashbak.com

“Net negative” system converts captured CO2 into plastic precursor
newatlas.com

The Real Magic of Rituals
nautil.us

A Dubious Truck, a Whistleblower Army, and Inept Spies: Inside the Very Weird Nikola Saga
bloomberg.com

‘We all make mistakes,’ says woman who got bit by an octopus she put on her face
cbc.ca

We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
eyeondesign.aiga.org

Punishment, Puppies, and Science: Bringing Dog Training to Heel
undark.org

To save endangered eels, researchers have been working for decades to figure out where they reproduce
hakaimagazine.com

The Other Monuments Men
daily.jstor.org

Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above Its Weight’
nytimes.com

Record-Breaking Robot Highlights How Animals Excel at Jumping
quantamagazine.org

Video: ‘I Sold the French Laundry. Then It Became “The Best Restaurant in the World.”‘ [20:32]
youtube.com

150M-year-old vomit found in Utah offers ‘rare glimpse’ into prehistoric ecosystems (new word: ‘regurgitalite’)
ksl.com

The Mystery Behind the Crime Wave at 312 Riverside Drive
nytimes.com

On this day in 1979 two families executed an ambitious and dangerous plan to escape from authoritarian East Germany
damninteresting.com

The round homes that can last centuries
bbc.com

NASA Has a New Target Date to Launch SLS Megarocket
gizmodo.com

Strange Phenomenon on Sun Imaged by Solar Orbiter for First Time – Mystery Solved
scitechdaily.com

Here’s Why Car Wheels Are So Flat These Days (And No, It’s Not Just Aerodynamics And Styling)
theautopian.com

The Magnus Carlsen Chess Scandal, Explained
nytimes.com

‘Dinosaur mummy’: Researchers believe they found one of the best preserved dinosaurs ever
usatoday.com • (see also)

Draft Riots, Tammany Hall, and a Fire at Barnum’s Museum: The Birth of the NYC Fire Department
lithub.com

As Tokamaks Get Hotter, Scientists Must Control the Unruly Plasma Inside
popularmechanics.com

Who Is the Woman Haunting A.I.-Generated Art?
smithsonianmag.com

Is your gas stove bad for your health?
theconversation.com

Did Photography Really Kill Portrait Painting?
daily.jstor.org

A History of the Breast Pump
smithsonianmag.com

Humans And Cockatoos Are Embroiled in an Escalating ‘Arms Race’ in Australia
sciencealert.com

Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?
lithub.com

Evidence suggests Wikipedia is accurate and reliable. When are we going to start taking it seriously?
smh.com.au

How AI Transformers Mimic Parts of the Brain
quantamagazine.org

Why Do So Many Kids Need Glasses Now?
theatlantic.com

The Japanese craft that helps us heal
bbc.com

Earth Could Be Even More Habitable. We’d Just Need to Shift Jupiter’s Orbit
sciencealert.com

NASA ready for landmark planetary defense test
space.com

The mysterious balancing stones on frozen lakes
physicstoday.scitation.org

‘I Went to Trash School’
curbed.com

What is ball lightning?
sciencefocus.com

Webb telescope captures ‘breathtaking’ images of Orion Nebula
phys.org

This Man Is Trying to Put Mirrors in Space to Generate Solar Power at Night
vice.com • (see also)

For the First Time, These Incredible New Images of the Sun Reveal Its Mysterious Chromosphere
thedebrief.org

The Mushrooms That Ate Luke Perry
orionmagazine.org

These vintage photos show what air travel looked like between 1930s to 1950s
rarehistoricalphotos.com

Did humans domesticate plants, or did they domesticate us?
salon.com

Video: Bacteria That Only Want To Head North [10:08]
youtube.com

Nebraska Man Makes World’s Longest Journey by Pumpkin Boat
smithsonianmag.com

Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection
newyorker.com

They built a Minecraft crypto empire. Then it all came crashing down
restofworld.org

Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules
bbc.com

Gut Feelings: How Does Intuition Work, Anyway?
lithub.com

Physicists Just Entangled A Pair of Atomic Clocks Six Feet Apart
sciencealert.com

Video: Spirit of Liberation – The Liberation of Europe 1944-45 | For the first time in color & HD [1:33:11]
youtube.com

What Kind of Extraterrestrial Life Should We Be Searching For?
theatlantic.com

Video: Backing away from an elephant charge [0:31]
reddit.com

How an enormous project attempted to map the sky without computers
arstechnica.com

A newly-discovered exoplanet orbiting a cool star is remarkably like Earth
salon.com

Scientists finally know why we get distracted — and how we can stay on track
inverse.com

‘How Masking Changed My Experience of Being Deaf’
theatlantic.com

Video: Debris: A new film about 9/11 which includes never-before-aired footage [25:35]
youtube.com