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Eighties Babies Are Officially the Brokest Generation, Federal Reserve Study Concludes
slate.com

Video: BBC – The Secret Life of Chaos (2010)
ihavenotv.com

What Really Happened to that Melted NASA Camera?
nasa.gov

Look into my eyes: one woman’s journey from coma to consciousness
theguardian.com

Video: Hannah Fry explains Weber’s Law and how it affects our day to day lives
youtube.com

Why Beans Were an Ancient Emblem of Death
atlasobscura.com

How stress echoes down the generations
economist.com

Living inside a canister: Dallas polio survivor is one of few people left in U.S. using iron lung
dallasnews.com

Oldest European Tree Found—And It’s Having a Growth Spurt
news.nationalgeographic.com

On this day in 1962 an underground fire started in Centralia, PA. It still burns today.
damninteresting.com

Have You Ever Seen Someone Be Killed? A single data point that complicates how we think about who is in prison.
nytimes.com

The hardest part of preparing for disasters is overcoming human nature
theverge.com

Next stop: San Francisco. How man plans to swim across Pacific Ocean
mercurynews.com

Treadmills Were Meant to Be Atonement Machines
daily.jstor.org

We’ve updated our Voyager Golden Record simulator to work around recent Chrome changes, and to work better on mobile devices
voyager.damninteresting.com

I work at one of America’s underfunded schools. It’s falling apart
theguardian.com

GDPR: The great data privacy panic
bbc.com

The Silence of the Bugs
nytimes.com

How to survive a parachute failure
bbc.com

Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the Moon, has died
arstechnica.com

Nasa’s Golden Record may baffle alien life, say researchers
theguardian.com

When Living Your Truth Can Mean Losing Your Children
nytimes.com

Photos: All the scariest natural disasters are happening at once
qz.com

As He Heads Back To Prison, A Nashville Man Says ‘Goodbye’ To The New Life He Hoped To Build
nashvillepublicradio.org

Zhao Kangmin: The man who ‘discovered’ China’s terracotta army
bbc.com

Life and death on a superyacht: ‘If something goes wrong, they can just raise the anchor and leave’
theguardian.com

Tick Wrapped in Spider Silk Found Trapped in Amber—A First
news.nationalgeographic.com

Food firms could face litigation over neuromarketing to hijack brains
theguardian.com

‘Wolf-like’ creature shot near Montana ranch puzzles experts
bbc.com

On this day in 1940 the Crypt of Civilization was sealed, not to be opened for over 6,000 years
damninteresting.com

Australia builds world’s longest cat-proof fence to save wildlife
phys.org

What exactly are “preppers” prepping for?
arstechnica.com

‘It’s worse than murder’: how rural America became a hospital desert
theguardian.com

How an abandoned lab could show us the future
bbc.com

How stratospheric life is teaching us about the possibility of extreme life on other worlds
phys.org

The Shock of Witnessing a Stranger’s Suicide
theatlantic.com

Algae Living inside Salamanders Aren’t Happy about the Situation
blogs.scientificamerican.com

In a Warming West, the Rio Grande Is Drying Up
nytimes.com

Bangkok’s forgotten shopping centre
bbc.com

New air purification technology to eradicate airborne viruses
phys.org

Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots
bbc.com

How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money
theguardian.com

Oldest known case of dandruff found in 125m-year-old dinosaur
theguardian.com

Why we can’t give up this odd way of typing
bbc.com

The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations
citylab.com

The Last Days of Time Inc.
nytimes.com

Woman fights off grizzly bear, then walks to safety
bbc.com

Giant canyons discovered in Antarctica
bbc.com

As class began at Santa Fe: ‘There’s a shooting at school’
houstonchronicle.com

How One Recalled SUV Destroyed $45 Million In Cars, Burned A Massive Ship, And Sparked A Legal Battle Between Ford And BMW
jalopnik.com

Researchers identify a protein that viruses use as gateway into cells
arstechnica.com

How deadlines thwart our ability to do important work (and what we can do about it)
washingtonpost.com

Sex, lies and payday loans: The parachute murder plot
bbc.com

How Did Dino-Era Birds Survive the Asteroid ‘Apocalypse’?
news.nationalgeographic.com

A promising target in the quest for a 1-million-year-old Antarctic ice core
washington.edu

She said she’d free them from addiction. She turned them into her personal servants
revealnews.org

The US military released a study on time travel and warp drives — here’s what a theoretical physicist thinks of it
businessinsider.com

Before Parkland, Santa Fe and Columbine…There Was Concord High
narrative.ly

Turns out Pluto might really be a giant comet
cnet.com

Skeleton Of Famed Astronomer Tycho Brahe Finally Reveals Cause Of Death
forbes.com