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Video, 1946: German WW2 helmets getting a second life as pots, pans, and colanders
youtube.com

‘It’s Transformative’: Māori Women Talk About Their Sacred Chin Tattoos
broadly.vice.com

King-Killers in America (and the American Who Avenged the King)
blog.longreads.com

When High Rollers Get Screwed Over by Vegas Casinos, They Call This Guy
thrillist.com

New Bacteria Groups, and Stunning Diversity, Discovered Underground
newscenter.lbl.gov

Rebelling Against the Void
outsideonline.com

Unlocking the secrets of bacterial biofilms – to use against them
theconversation.com

Shhh! My Not-So-Quiet Life as a Librarian with Tourette’s
narrative.ly

Behind This Plant’s Blue Leaves Lies a Weird Trick of Quantum Mechanics
popularmechanics.com

The world’s knowledge is being buried in a salt mine
bbc.com

Video: Beautiful HD footage of the Arctic from Colonel Chris Hadfield’s recent expedition
youtube.com

Pagan god ‘caught’ in river by fisherman confirmed as being up to 4,200 years old and ‘unique’
siberiantimes.com

The 19th Century Yoruba repatriation
orishaimage.com

Cracking the Cranial Vault: What It Feels Like to Perform Brain Surgery
vice.com

Computer scientists can now prove software to be error-free with same certainty that mathematicians prove theorems
quantamagazine.org

Russian scientists in the Arctic have discovered ruins of a secret WW2 German military base
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Spiders can ‘tune’ their webs to sound out plucky potential mates
theguardian.com

Video: The science behind the stereogram craze of the 1990s
youtube.com

“I spent 28 years on death row”
theguardian.com

Tardigrades Can Survive Almost Anything, and Now We Know How
secondnexus.com

Was the [US] Declaration of Independence ‘defaced’? Experts say yes.
washingtonpost.com

Weird Extragalactic X-Ray Flares Baffle Astronomers
scientificamerican.com

Scientists find a storm on Jupiter that towers above the planet’s pole
arstechnica.co.uk

New construction techniques make it possible to build skyscrapers made of wood
economist.com

Aberfan: The mistake that cost a village its children
bbc.co.uk

Evidence mounts for the existence of ‘Planet Nine’ beyond Pluto
nytimes.com

Those Ancient Stone Tools — Did Humans Make Them, Or Was It Really Monkeys?
npr.org

The secret behind Italy’s rarest pasta
bbc.com

Documentary, 1995: Waco-The Inside Story
vimeo.com

Placebos: It turns out they work even when you know they’re placebos
abc.net.au

What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?
outsideonline.com

80 Years Later, Polar Explorer’s Sunken Ship Floats Again
scientificamerican.com

Feeding cows seaweed could slash global greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say
abc.net.au

DNA reveals the “Higgs bison,” a hybrid Ice Age species depicted in ancient cave art
cbc.ca

Why the U.S. Military Still Flies Cold-War Era Planes
theatlantic.com

Migraines could be caused by gut bacteria, study suggests
theguardian.com

Why billionaires have more sons
bbc.com

What Happens to American Myth When You Take the Driver Out of It?
nymag.com

Mars: Inside the High-Risk, High-Stakes Race to the Red Planet
nationalgeographic.com

Rare, Neolithic ‘Goddess’ Figurine Discovered in Turkey (estimated 8,000 years old)
livescience.com

Dirty secrets of the mail fraud mafia
money.cnn.com

The Forgotten Tunnel Under Naples Filled With Vintage Cars
amusingplanet.com

The Soviet InterNyet: How Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation
aeon.co

Was Venus the first habitable planet in our solar system?
theguardian.com

Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters
bbc.com

The Virus With Spider DNA
theatlantic.com

New Research Debunks The Dinosaur’s Roar
npr.org

Why French pigs say groin, Japanese bees say boon and American frogs say ribbit
washingtonpost.com

Slow-motion wrecks: how thawing permafrost is destroying Arctic cities
theguardian.com

Terahertz radiation could make computer memory 1,000 times faster
digitaljournal.com

We finally know why naked mole rats are impervious to pain
sciencealert.com

‘If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die’ (autoplay video)
nytimes.com

Meteorites pummel the Moon far more than expected
nature.com

Secret Mayan tombs lend rare insight into rule of mysterious ‘snake kings’
theguardian.com

China’s quantum satellite could make data breaches a thing of the past
theconversation.com

Computer scientists have solved a cake-cutting problem mathematicians have struggled with for decades
quantamagazine.org

Study: Spiders have a far acuter sense of hearing than previously thought
researchgate.net

Inside the New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments
atlasobscura.com

Study: Ultraviolet light from stars crucial to formation of organic molecules needed to create life
cbc.ca

Restored and ravishing: the magnificent Ghent Altarpiece gives up its centuries-old mysteries
theguardian.com