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Fashion model Lee Miller photographed the chaos of war’s end in Europe, documenting major battles, the liberation of Paris, and the horrors of Dachau and Buchenwald
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

‘Patients were chained to walls and beds’: Freetown’s psychiatric hospital released from the past
theguardian.com

Video: How transparent objects can project images [9:48]
youtube.com

Mobile Genes From the Mother Shape the Baby’s Microbiome
quantamagazine.org

Video: What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina? [13:07]
youtube.com

“We would have been incapable of living on our planet for most of its existence”
aeon.co

Industrial espionage: How China sneaks out America’s technology secrets
bbc.com

Video: Mao Zedong’s infamous mango cult [6:31]
youtube.com • (see also)

Quantum Computing Has a Noise Problem
wired.com

Astronomers capture radio signal from distant galaxy
mcgill.ca

‘Kraken’ Covid: Genetic Mutation Makes New Subvariant Extra Contagious
rollingstone.com

Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe: Researchers Use High-Powered Lasers to Study Magnetic Reconnection
scitechdaily.com

How donkeys changed the course of human history
bbc.com

Video: Happiness: The story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment [4:16]
youtube.com • (see also)

The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system
theverge.com • (see also)

Epigenetic “reboot” reverses aging in mice and could extend lifespan
newatlas.com

Excavators say they’ve found a previously unknown Egyptian royal tomb in Luxor
npr.org

Scientists steer lightning bolts with lasers for the first time
theguardian.com

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted man, arrested in Sicily
cnn.com

Why some people can’t tell left from right
bbc.com

Is this by Rothko or a robot? We ask the experts to tell the difference between human and AI art
theguardian.com

Tomorrow (Monday) is a holiday in the USA, and my kid’s school is closed, so links may be few. But you can find plenty to read here:
damninteresting.com

Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Approach to the Mystery
scitechdaily.com

Elusive ‘Buchdahl stars’ are black holes without event horizons. But do they really exist?
livescience.com

One Afghan refugee’s stunning photographs of the country’s ‘many stories that need to be told’
theguardian.com

Video: The Future of the Search for Life [12:20]
youtube.com

Concentrated photosynthesis device promises cheap green hydrogen
newatlas.com

Black hole ‘spaghettified’ a star into a doughnut shape, and astronomers captured the gory encounter
livescience.com

Svante Pääbo: ‘It’s maybe time to rethink our idea of Neanderthals’
theguardian.com

On this day in 1919 a massive molasses storage tank burst, flooding the streets of Boston with sticky goo
damninteresting.com

Splitting the atomic scientists: how the Ukraine war ruined physics
theguardian.com

Video: A Time To Live (Living With Terminal Illness Documentary) [59:16]
youtube.com

Old Photos Show the Spectacle of Victorian Women’s Hairstyles, 1870s-1900s
rarehistoricalphotos.com

Scientists propose turning abandoned mines into gravity batteries
newatlas.com

California’s Devastating Storms Are a Glimpse of the Future
newyorker.com

Drying Great Salt Lake Could Expose Millions to Toxic Arsenic-Laced Dust
smithsonianmag.com

Molly Sampson told her mother that she wanted to find an extinct megalodon while searching for fossils at a local beach
people.com

LEV begins experiments aiming to double the lifespan of middle-aged mice
newatlas.com

You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is
theatlantic.com

Collector discovered Isaac Newton’s lost personal copy of Opticks
arstechnica.com

Bed Bath and the great Beyond
archive.is

Australian Couple Survive for 3 Days at Sea on Paddleboard: ‘You Got To Buy Some Lotto Tickets’
people.com

The U.S. Is Losing the Hypersonic Arms Race to China—But Its New High-Powered Lasers are Changing the Game
popularmechanics.com

Engineers Made Themselves Some Cyborg Cells
popularmechanics.com

Tongue-zapping spoon claimed to boost the flavor of foods
newatlas.com

This week: 🐈Feline bellies, 🐕raw dog food blues, 🕵️spying on cats, and more!
damninteresting.com

Final results from the STEREO experiment reject sterile neutrino hypothesis
phys.org

The Underground Cooks of Singapore’s Prisons
atlasobscura.com

A dazzling green comet has stargazers thrilled in amazing photos
space.com

New results reveal surprising behavior of minerals deep in the Earth
phys.org • (see also)

Astronomers Discover Two Invisible Stars Spinning Around Each Other at Breakneck Speed
gizmodo.com

Probability and Number Theory Collide — in a Moment
quantamagazine.org

Video: The bizarre world of parasitic wasps [5:52]
youtube.com • (see also)

DARPA Wants to Find a Drug That Makes You Impervious to Cold
gizmodo.com

Second stage engine malfunction blamed for UK space launch failure
newatlas.com

When the CIA Spied on American Citizens—Using Pigeons
atlasobscura.com • (see also)

Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s
theguardian.com

Lab-Grown Retinas to Restore Vision Are a Step Closer to Human Trials
sciencealert.com • (see also)

How sugar and fat affect your brain
archive.is

The Migraine Art Competition Collection
wellcomecollection.org