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New Study Suggests Our Understanding of Brain Cells Is Flawed, and Here’s Why
sciencealert.com

Dishonesty gets easier on the brain the more you do it
aeon.co

How to Become an International Gold Smuggler
bloomberg.com

Anatomy of a North Korean Assassination
thedailybeast.com

The Story Of Henry “Box”€™ Brown, The Slave Who Mailed Himself To Freedom
good.is

This Psychologist Is Figuring Out How Your Brain Makes Emotions
nymag.com

Two Irish villages claim that the skeleton of Napoleon’s horse, Marengo, belongs to them. But did he ever exist?
1843magazine.com

Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly
bloomberg.com

An animated version of Cassini’s recent photo of the tiny moon Pan
damninteresting.com

Most Americans didn’t even want us to land on the moon
timeline.com

Found: A Colossal Statue of Ramses II Hiding Under a Cairo Street
atlasobscura.com

Ancient Roman Sarcophagus Is Rescued from Humble Duty as a Flower Pot
nytimes.com

Harvard scientists speculate that Fast Radio Bursts come from alien space travel
popularmechanics.com

NASA finds lunar spacecraft that vanished 8 years ago
cnn.com

Russian scientists are trying to resurrect an Ice Age biome in Siberia, complete with woolly mammoths
theatlantic.com

Video: The font that escaped the Nazis and landed on the moon
youtube.com

Azure Window of Malta Collapses Into the Sea After Storm
nytimes.com

Neanderthal teeth tell tales of diet and medicine
arstechnica.com

Uncommon Ancestry: The story of a fertility doctor who secretly discarded donor sperm in favor of his own
hazlitt.net

Study: Australia was colonized by a single group 50,000 years ago
arstechnica.com

Hypothesis: Vision, not limbs, led fish onto land 385 million years ago
news.northwestern.edu

Photo: A clear photo of Saturn’s tiny moon Pan, via Cassini
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave
bbc.com

Going underground: inside the world of the mole-catchers
theguardian.com

Ninety percent of Iceland’s women walked off the job in 1975, and the country came to a halt
timeline.com

Paul Mason once weighed 980 pounds. But what did he gain when he lost most of it?
gq.com

Inside NASA’s daring $8 billion plan to finally find extraterrestrial life
arstechnica.com

Study: Consuming food in “smoothie” form delays becoming hungry again by about an hour for most people
theatlantic.com

In 1914, Feminists Fought for the Right to Forget Childbirth
atlasobscura.com

Video: Music, Magic and Mayhem with Tesla Coil
youtube.com

Two sisters, one house, and a mystery
bostonglobe.com

Photo: UGC 12591: The Fastest Rotating Galaxy Known
apod.nasa.gov

This Is Our First Footage of One of the Most Elusive Whales on Earth
gizmodo.com

The quack behind the MSG scare is still stoking fear for profit
theoutline.com

The Slave Who Outwitted George Washington
longreads.com

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
brainpickings.org

A new sponge can absorb up to 90 times its own weight in spilled oil, can also be wrung out and reused
newscientist.com

The Tragedy of Newcomb Mott, Who Thought He Could Walk Into Soviet Russia
atlasobscura.com

Longform: Can the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Be Found in Cuba? [more interesting than it sounds]
audubon.org

Banksy’s boutique art hotel opens its doors in Bethlehem
cnn.com

ASU study finds that high population density correlates with a ‘slow life strategy’
asunow.asu.edu

Photo: Cassini images Saturn’s rings from closer than ever before
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov • (more info)

Ancient skulls may belong to elusive humans called Denisovans
sciencemag.org

On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history
magazine.atavist.com

Submerged in the Cosmic Kingdom
nybooks.com

Video: The Uncomfortable Effort of Thinking
youtube.com

The Long Tail of the Attica Prison Riot
themorningnews.org

Your Teeth Are Helping Scientists Build Better Airplanes
gizmodo.com

The 1956 Magic Trick That Sent BBC Viewers Into a Panic
mentalfloss.com

Remembering a City Where the Smog Could Kill
nytimes.com

Last of ‘too silky’ woolly mammoths blighted by bad mutations
theguardian.com

The Discovery of Radioactivity – That Time the Sun Didn’t Shine In Paris
ua-magazine.com

Oldest traces of life on Earth found in Quebec, dating back roughly 3.8 billion years
cbc.ca

Previously untouched 600BC palace discovered under shrine demolished by Isil in Mosul
telegraph.co.uk

The Coming Amnesia: One day in the far future, galaxies will be unable to detect one another
bldgblog.com

In search of Forrest Fenn’s treasure: Our 5-day quest for $2 million hidden in the Rockies (pardon video header)
vox.com

Why All Airliners Look the Same
popularmechanics.com

This Picture Has No Red Pixels—So Why Do the Strawberries Still Look Red?
motherboard.vice.com

My Mother’s Murder: She disappeared when I was four. It was years before I understood why.
nymag.com

How Should Society Judge a Defendant with a Brain Tumor?
nautil.us