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You’re Not Imagining It: Cookie-Cutter Offices Are Making You Less Productive
thewalrus.ca

Attributed to Banksy, a New Statue of a Suited Man, Blinded by a Flag and Walking Off a Ledge, Appeared in Central London
smithsonianmag.com

Video: Gravity Assists Are Basically Free Energy [8:33]
youtube.com • (see also)

Nature vs nurture: How much of our personalities are determined at birth?
bbc.com

Six Decades Ago, a Boy Stole Medieval Tiles From an English Monastery. He Just Returned the Illicit Souvenirs
smithsonianmag.com

Video: The World’s Deadliest Company [30:02]
youtube.com • (see also)

Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
arstechnica.com • (see also)

Video: The words that contradict themselves [19:59]
youtube.com

A Treasure Trove of Cambrian Fossils Rewrites the Story of Early Life
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

U.S. women 40+ now have more babies per capita than teens
randalolson.com

Video: Francis Bacon: Great Art Explained: Study after Velázquez [28:03]
youtube.com

‘It’s super weird, super odd, super rare’: meet the twins who have different dads
theguardian.com • (see also)

An interactive photo timeline of NASA’s Artemis II mission
artemistimeline.com

A Metal Detectorist Stumbled Upon a Silver Coin. It Turned Out to Be Part of a Stash Buried During the Viking Invasion of Britain
smithsonianmag.com

Video: The fascinating reason you loved peek-a-boo [5:28]
youtube.com

Birds Are More Afraid of Women Than of Men
nautil.us • Mirror

The Cold War Panic Over a Mysterious New Kind of Water—and the Embarrassing Truth Behind It
popularmechanics.com

The Undercover Agent Who Posed as a Taxidermist to Bust Colorado’s Worst Poachers
magazine.atavist.com

US may lose measles elimination status after outbreaks spread to 45 states
medicalxpress.com

Watch: Moment WW2 bomb detonated in Plymouth
bbc.com

The 2-Hour Marathon Barrier Gets Smashed. Is It the Shoes—or the Sugar?
wsj.com • Mirror

Video: What do animals think of our music? [32:09]
youtube.com

JWST discovers ‘red monster’ galaxy that challenges astronomers’ understanding of the early universe
yahoo.com

On this day in 1943 Allied forces in WW2 used a dead man as a vehicle for subterfuge
damninteresting.com

New Lithium-Plasma Engine Passes Key Mars Propulsion Test
universetoday.com

Scorpions Reinforce Their Deadly Claws And Stingers With Heavy Metals
sciencealert.com

In plane sight: how the gilded elite live – in pictures
theguardian.com

Video: Uppercases: Capital Letters Across the World Get Messy, and Not Just in Book Titles [16:41]
youtube.com

Laser-Swarm Science at the Proxima Centauri System
universetoday.com

When The ‘Eternity Glaciers’ Disappear
noemamag.com

The art of photographic deception
engelsbergideas.com

Why ’90s Kids Remember a Sinbad Genie Movie That Never Happened
vice.com

Physicists have measured ‘negative time’ in the lab
theconversation.com

Video: The Victorian “Hologram” [18:08]
youtube.com • (see also)

UK schoolboys’ fatal hike remembered in Black Forest 90 years on
theguardian.com

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
bbc.com

Video: How Ford Mastered Efficiency [14:26]
youtube.com • (see also)

What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
quantamagazine.org

Vintage Cars That Look Almost Unreal: The Strangest Designs from the 1900s to 1960s
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The World’s Longest-Running Experiment Is Still Teaching Us Physics
zmescience.com

The Rendlesham Forest mystery: ‘It’s the perfect storm of a UFO case’
theguardian.com

A lost galaxy called ‘Loki’ may be hiding inside the Milky Way
phys.org

Canada Proposes POET Mission to Hunt Earth-Sized Planets
universetoday.com

Video: How the Nuclear Football Works [6:38]
youtube.com

Only one known single spyridium plant is left in the wild on the Coorong, but scientists are hunting for more
abc.net.au • (see also)

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”
arstechnica.com

Octopus ‘krakens’ as large as semi-trucks stalked ancient seas
science.org

What Ethiopian running says about the limits of human ability
aeon.co

Elaborately crafted gold brooch uncovered in Denmark
heritagedaily.com

Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’
theguardian.com

One of the world’s most common knee surgeries does not help and may even be harmful
medicalxpress.com

The paradise island haunted by one of the bloodiest battles of World War II
cnn.com • (see also)

Video: ‘The disaster I never imagined having to worry about’ [33:24]
youtube.com • (see also)

Amazing Stories at 100: A pioneering publication celebrates a century of ‘scientifiction’
npr.org

Cursor Camp – A campground for your cursor
neal.fun

On the Propaganda of Early Nazism, and How We See it in America Today
lithub.com • (see also)

Why Math’s Final Axiom Proved So Controversial
quantamagazine.org

Video: This Video is about Dinosaurs [9:37]
youtube.com

Scientists Unveil ‘Long Lost’ Map for Smell
nytimes.com

After Decades of Quiet Rumbling, an Epidemic Is Erupting Among California Stoneworkers
inthesetimes.com