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The bizarre space explosions scientists can’t explain
bbc.com

How the loss of experienced individual elephants stops knowledge transfer between generations
phys.org

Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride
arstechnica.com

Can we detect alien artifacts?
astronomy.com • (see also)

Woman missing for more than 60 years found ‘alive and well’
news.sky.com

Video: Why most Americans have never had this bean [15:44]
youtube.com

On this day in 1988 a manufacturer of volatile chemicals in Nevada caught fire
damninteresting.com

How to Govern Like a Mongol
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Scientists say they’ve found another source of gold in the cosmos
yahoo.com • (see also)

Video: The Hacker Who Trolled Hollywood [16:45]
youtube.com

How Baseball Shaped Black Communities in Reconstruction-Era America
lithub.com

The Texan Who Built an Empire of Ecstasy
texasmonthly.com

Snake halts Japanese bullet trains after wrapping around power line
bbc.com

Charles Brooks Photographs the Interiors of Musical and Scientific Instruments
thisiscolossal.com

50 years later, Vietnam’s environment still bears the scars of war
salon.com

A man let snakes bite him 202 times. His blood helped create a new antivenom
sciencenews.org

Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Science reveals what happened
sciencenews.org

Conspiracies, Urban Legends, and the Most Dangerous (Video) Game
crimereads.com

The surprisingly tricky art of seed banking
knowablemagazine.org • (see also)

Mummy mystery solved: ‘air-dried’ priest was embalmed via rectum
theguardian.com

The Pill That Promises to Cure Grief
thewalrus.ca

Video: This Is The Best Predator Defense Of All Time [11:49]
youtube.com

This week: Boozy chimps, bone-collecting caterpillars, extinguishing the sun, and more!
damninteresting.com

NASA still trying to revive silent Lunar Trailblazer moon orbiter
space.com

How One Woman Lost $75,000 to an MLM
thecut.com • Mirror

What was food like before the FDA?
popsci.com

Australians rescue a 10-foot great white shark stranded in shallow water
apnews.com

New images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachute may be out
space.com

We know how to produce clean water. Why don’t we have enough of it?
thenewatlantis.com

Latest Dark Energy Study Suggests the Universe Is Even Weirder Than We Imagined
scientificamerican.com • (see also)

Forensics tool ‘reanimates’ the ‘brains’ of AIs that fail in order to understand what went wrong
theconversation.com

How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding
nytimes.com

This Plaintive Song Is From a Land Without Lullabies
nautil.us

This Elephant Lived in Europe for 700,000 Years — Could It Live There Today?
discovermagazine.com

Robots are taking our jobs, leaving us with less hair in our food
newatlas.com

The Only Black, All-Female Unit to Serve Overseas in World War II Receives the Congressional Gold Medal
smithsonianmag.com

How London’s Great Plague Planted the Seeds For Future Scientific Advancements
lithub.com

Unearthed Legacy: Rare Elite Alanian Tomb Discovered in Chechnya
thearchaeologist.org

Psilocybin an effective treatment for repeated concussions, study suggests
newatlas.com

What makes smoke black versus white?
popsci.com

“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult
thewalrus.ca

Video: Rotary head microscope creates full-motion images of tiny things [12:49]
youtube.com

The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’
theguardian.com • (see also)

Video: How to Prepare for Arctic War With Russia [52:30]
youtube.com • (see also)

‘A living collective’: study shows trees synchronise electrical signals during a solar eclipse
theconversation.com

A Hubble scientist was urged not to take a risky cosmic image. He didn’t listen.
mashable.com

These are the sharpest images yet of planets being born around distant stars
space.com

Tiny magnetic silk iron particles could steer drugs directly to hard-to-reach disease sites
phys.org

The Fall of Saigon as Seen By a Journalist on the Ground
saturdayeveningpost.com

Meet The Death Metal Singers Changing Vocal Health Research
sciencefriday.com

How the Internet Left 4chan Behind
newyorker.com • Mirror

Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off. The Ref Took a Beating.
nytimes.com

In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource
arstechnica.com

Rick Mofina on the Day He Went Inside the Execution Chamber in Huntsville, Texas
crimereads.com

Calvin Darden Jr.’s Decades of Grifting Off Rich Celebrities
nymag.com • Mirror

‘What is a downburst? These winds can be as destructive as tornadoes − we recreate them to test building designs’
theconversation.com

Titanic: ‘It Is a Fine Ship, But I Shall Await My Journey’s End Before I Pass Judgment’
smithsonianmag.com

‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war
theguardian.com

Gravity May Be a Clue That The Universe Is a Giant Computer
sciencealert.com

ChatGPT Omni prompted to “create the exact replica of this image, don’t change a thing” 74 times
old.reddit.com