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Cockfighting Is Illegal in the U.S. Why Does It Breed so Many Fighting Birds?
nytimes.com

The Corrupt World Behind the Murdaugh Murders
newyorker.com

How Fine Art Has Become a Tool for the Bad Guys
crimereads.com

‘How long before a body starts to smell’: A list of Brian Walshe’s Google searches, according to prosecutors
boston.com

How Scientists Diagnosed King Tut Thousands of Years After His Death
lithub.com

Scientists Are Getting Eerily Good at Using WiFi to ‘See’ People Through Walls in Detail
vice.com

Busted and Broken Fossils Show How Dinosaurs Fought
smithsonianmag.com

A century ago, the discovery of hafnium confirmed the validity of the periodic table
nature.com • (see also)

World’s oldest runestone found in Norway, archaeologists say
theguardian.com

Founded in 1807, the Boston Athenæum was a gathering place for local scholars, “men of business,” and members of the upper classes in search of knowledge
daily.jstor.org

Video: USA vs China, The War You Can’t See [33:37]
youtube.com

Saturday, January 21, 2023, the moon will be the closest to our planet since the year 1030
forbes.com

Malacca Strait: How one volcano could trigger world chaos
bbc.com

A woman receives the first-ever successful transplant of a living, 3D-printed ear
zmescience.com

Why Was King Tut Buried with a Trumpet?
tedgioia.substack.com

World’s first ammonia-electric semi packs as much energy as the Tesla
newatlas.com

Video: How A Tiny Cave Spawned A Micro-Culture [33:06]
youtube.com

New Nuclear Rocket Design to Send Missions to Mars in Just 45 Days
universetoday.com

The plan to save Italy’s dying olive trees with dogs
bbc.com

Adopted by their parents’ enemies: tracing the stolen children of Argentina’s ‘dirty war’
theguardian.com

Do AI Art Tools Break Copyright Laws? Two New Lawsuits Will Find Out.
gizmodo.com

Why the Union Army Had So Many Boy Soldiers
smithsonianmag.com

70% of drugs advertised on TV are of “low therapeutic value,” study finds
arstechnica.com

Can 3-D Printing Help Solve the Housing Crisis?
newyorker.com

People’s Choice: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022
theatlantic.com

Squid and human brains develop the same way despite diverging 500 million years ago
livescience.com

Astronomers reveal the most detailed radio image yet of the Milky Way’s galactic plane
theconversation.com

Lasers Are Mapping Scotland’s Mysterious Iron Age Passages
wired.com

NASA Reveals Tantalizing Details About Webb Telescope’s Successor
gizmodo.com

Wheeled robot uses a locust antenna to identify odors
newatlas.com

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