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Homeless in the City Where He Was Once Mayor
nytimes.com

This week: 🖼️AI photo trickery, 👀corporate spy adventures, 🐌ancient escargot, and more!
damninteresting.com

Astronomers detect the closest example yet of a black hole devouring a star
phys.org

Rats get a bad rap. These landmine-sniffing rodents are helping change that
cbc.ca • (see also)

Fish Are Not Insentient Dullards
nautil.us

Researchers Just Used Knots of Worms to Understand the Science of Tangles
gizmodo.com

Pro-Nazis And The Royals: The Men Near George VI Who Admired Hitler
historyextra.com

We’re using less energy when we rest than 30 years ago
abdn.ac.uk

Insect Week photography awards – in pictures
theguardian.com

The Strange Life of Glass
nautil.us

No bones about it: Humble eggshell may be the next bone graft material
newatlas.com

NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer
gizmodo.com

Researchers Discover Tequila Worm Species
discovermagazine.com

The Climate Crisis Gives Sailing Ships a Second Wind
newyorker.com

Video: Why did the British Empire burn, sink, and hide these documents? [4:58]
youtube.com

AI and Politics: How Will We Know What—and Who—Is Real?
thewalrus.ca

Hackers Take Control of Government-Owned Satellite in Alarming Experiment
gizmodo.com

Take a look inside the largest house in the US — a Vanderbilt’s 130-year-old private mansion with 35 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms, and 65 fireplaces
businessinsider.com • (see also)

Lab-made lungs fast-track drug testing, can replace animal test subjects
newatlas.com

Video: Why Engineers Can’t Control Rivers [15:52]
youtube.com

Why Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to college graduates still matters today
theconversation.com

Governors Island: The uninhabited isle that birthed NYC
bbc.com

Someone buried treasure 2,000 years ago and never returned. A hiker just found it
news.yahoo.com

Scientists discover gene in the brain that puts the brakes on anxiety
zmescience.com

How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
theguardian.com

Like viewing in FM vs. AM: New black hole image reveals “fluffier” ring
arstechnica.com

How You Can See Tens of Thousands of Fireflies Flash in Unison
smithsonianmag.com

The Comet Year
nautil.us

When Deadly Steamboat Races Enthralled America
smithsonianmag.com

Video: How Corporate Consolidation is Killing Ski Towns [25:51]
youtube.com

A New Blue Hole In the Ocean Extends Almost as Far as the Eiffel Tower
discovermagazine.com

A Black Hole Star Could Be the Trippiest Object in Space
gizmodo.com

Video: Tetris’ creators reveal the game’s greatest unsolved mysteries [17:42]
arstechnica.com

Video: The Race to Map The North Pole and its Ugly Truth [27:01]
youtube.com

Can lucid dreaming be harmful?
bbc.com • (see also)

Underwater Espionage: Everything We Know So Far About the Navy’s New Seabed-Warfare Sub
popularmechanics.com

Why Mathematicians Re-Prove What They Already Know
quantamagazine.org

How to Recreate the Deepest, Darkest Ocean
atlasobscura.com

Whatever happened to the theory of everything?
symmetrymagazine.org

Fake Hitler diaries to go on public display in Germany
theguardian.com

Marfa, Texas, became a famed art haven. Now locals can’t afford it
axios.com

Inside the Struggle to Make Lab-Grown Meat
archive.is

‘My Life with the Penguins’
nautil.us

Asteroid’s comet-like tail is not made of dust, solar observatories reveal
phys.org

Why scientists are making fake Moon dust
bbc.com

The boozy story of how we decided alcohol was a health boon in the ’90s—and how it all fell apart
slate.com

Academics find twist in tale of Rosalind Franklin, DNA and the double helix
theguardian.com

A Brief History of America Freaking Out About Horror Comics
crimereads.com • (see also)

A Heat Shield for the Most Important Ice on Earth
newyorker.com

Japan’s Private Lander Appears to Have Crashed on the Moon
gizmodo.com

The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born
technologyreview.com

Ranking the Pain of Stinging Insects, From ‘Spicy’ to ‘Shockingly Electric’
atlasobscura.com

Why some people wake up unable to move
bbc.com

Emirates Mars Mission takes first high-resolution images of Mars’ moon Deimos
physicsworld.com

‘I was the sole survivor of a plane crash. This is what I learned in eight days alone in the jungle’
theguardian.com

This Amphibious Fish May Hold The Secret to The Evolutionary Origins of Blinking
sciencealert.com

Japan’s ispace attempts world’s first commercial moon landing
cnn.com • Livestream

Riddle of ancient Egypt’s ‘impossible’ sculpture is finally solved—in Scotland
theartnewspaper.com

Webb Reveals Early-Universe Prequel to Huge Galaxy Cluster
webbtelescope.org

Link Found Between Common Ear, Nose, and Throat Infections in Preschoolers and Increased Risk of Autism
neurosciencenews.com