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Would building a Dyson sphere be worth it? We ran the numbers.
arstechnica.com

Kia Soul Gets Launched Into Orbit By Runaway Tire in Shocking Highway Crash
thedrive.com

Kerala: A ghost town in the world’s most populated country
bbc.com

The First Criminal Conviction Based on Fingerprint Evidence
discovermagazine.com

Chinese Moon Mission Finds a Potential Water Reservoir in Lunar Soil
gizmodo.com

Video: ‘I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage’ [4:35]
youtube.com

AI isn’t close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphize it
theconversation.com

Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter May Exist. Here’s How We Can Find Them.
sciencealert.com

Drugs and alcohol do not make you more creative, research finds
theguardian.com

Video: Why does this nonsense phrase appear in so many old newspapers? [9:12]
youtube.com

How Copper Deposits Turned a Village Into One of the Most Important Trade Hubs of the Late Bronze Age
scitechdaily.com

Chia seedlings verify Alan Turing’s ideas about patterns in nature
sciencenews.org

Why French Authorities Placed a Young Pablo Picasso Under Surveillance
smithsonianmag.com

What is Kyawthuite? The Rarest Mineral on Earth is a Single 1.6-Carat Specimen.
twistedsifter.com

Patients given aripiprazole ‘should be told of gambling addiction risks’
theguardian.com

Scenes from West Reading chocolate factory explosion
inquirer.com

Video: Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist featuring Carl Sagan [03:50]
vimeo.com

The Mystery of This Petroglyph-Covered Alaskan Beach
smithsonianmag.com

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
propublica.org

2 megamouth sharks caught on video for the 1st time ever
livescience.com

A Rogue Earth and Neptune Might Have Been Found in Older Data
universetoday.com

The “Stonehenge calendar” shown to be a modern construct
eurekalert.org

2 dead, 5 missing after Pennsylvania chocolate factory explodes
axios.com

‘Dad said: We’re going to follow Captain Cook’: how an endless round-the-world voyage stole my childhood
theguardian.com

Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space
theguardian.com

New York City’s Iconic Flatiron Building Sells for $190 Million at Auction
smithsonianmag.com

Mirrors were Invented in 1835. So What Did We Do Before?
messynessychic.com

Nefarious Intentions and Persecuted Victims: On the Rise of Conspiracy Theories
lithub.com

US teens say they have new proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theorem
theguardian.com

Time and the Laundering of History
americandreaming.substack.com

Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos
theguardian.com

Were These Beetles Once as Valuable as Gemstones?
atlasobscura.com

Early Doctors Diagnosed Disease by Looking at Urine
daily.jstor.org

This week: 📚Compulsive book theft, 🚗digital car hacks, 🧬fugitive DNA
damninteresting.com

How the Best Underwater Photography Reveals a World of Wonder
atlasobscura.com

The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

Garbology is the study of trash. This is why students love it
npr.org

‘No one can deny it now’: death flight plane to be returned to Argentina
theguardian.com • (see also)

A Million Bodies Are Buried on Hart Island. Now It’s Becoming a Park.
nytimes.com

World’s Largest Bat Species Is the Size of a Human Child
mymodernmet.com

Last Stand of the Hot Dog King
grubstreet.com

‘City killer’ asteroid to pass harmlessly between Earth and moon
theguardian.com • Observe

Animals without a brain still form associative memories
arstechnica.com • (see also)

Gallery: Wedged Wondercars of the 1960s and 70s
mossandfog.com

An Ancient Document Breakthrough Could Reveal Untold Secrets of the Past
vice.com

The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa
theguardian.com

Video: Don’t Drop your Tools in Space [16:11]
youtube.com

Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face
arstechnica.com

Researchers turned superglue into a recyclable, cheap, oil-free plastic alternative
theconversation.com

Fish May Feel Each Other’s Fear Through the Same Mechanism That Drives Human Empathy
gizmodo.com

Wormhole Experiment Called Into Question
quantamagazine.org

Teen who lost half her brain when very young shows the power of neuroplasticity
npr.org • (see also)

Video: When you’re an ant but also a fungus tycoon [5:05]
youtube.com

How climate change is reshaping the Alps
bbc.com

How Ceres, the Largest “Dark Asteroid,” Survived the Inner Solar System
nautil.us

Video: “Firestone and the Warlord”: Iconic Tire Company’s History in Liberia [1:23:14]
youtube.com • (see also)

Charles Bronson could be ready for release, says former prison officer
bbc.com

Physicists Have Manipulated ‘Quantum Light’ For The First Time, in a Huge Breakthrough
sciencealert.com

NASA Is Tracking a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field
sciencealert.com

Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat
archive.is