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On this day in 1979 boring Soviet scientists set the still-standing record for the deepest hole ever drilled
damninteresting.com

Inside Attica Correctional Facility and How Prisons Deal With Mental Health
esquire.com

Is “May You Live In Interesting Times” really an ancient Chinese curse?
quoteinvestigator.com

Deep in the Pentagon, a secret AI program to find hidden nuclear missiles
reuters.com

Gravitational Waves Reveal the Heart of Neutron Stars
scientificamerican.com

Archived news footage: 50 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated
abcnews.go.com

Nipah Virus, Dangerous and Little Known, Spreads in India
nytimes.com

Five myths about the refugee crisis
theguardian.com

Archeologist Spends Over 35 Years Building Enormous Scale Model of Ancient Rome
mymodernmet.com

How the Ice Age Shaped New York
nytimes.com

Thank the moon for Earth’s lengthening day
news.wisc.edu

The Kids Who Are Cleared to Leave Psychiatric Hospitals—But Can’t
theatlantic.com

‘I woke up and didn’t recognise my wife’
bbc.com

What Has NASA’s Curiosity Found on Mars? We’ll Find Out Thursday
space.com

‘Planet 9’ might really be a gang of asteroids shooting comets at us
cnet.com

A debate over plant consciousness is forcing us to confront the limitations of the human mind
qz.com

What You Told Us About Your Hometown’s Hidden Tunnels
atlasobscura.com

France starts work on revolutionary ‘Alzheimer’s village’ where patients roam almost free
telegraph.co.uk

Eugenics today: where eugenic sterilisation continues now
aeon.co

When The U.S. Army Bombed Hawaii’s Volcanoes
forbes.com

Secret to longevity may lie in the microbiome and the gut
sciencedaily.com

Maine man killed in hit-and-run ran over a girl in 1968
bbc.com

The Quietly Radical Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
theatlantic.com

These Physicists Watched a Clock Tick for 14 Years Straight
wired.com

Is Exxon Mobil the next Philip Morris?
cityandstateny.com

NASA: A Detailed Timeline of The IMAGE Mission Recovery
nasa.gov

Black bears are going bald. It might be even worse than it looks.
washingtonpost.com

Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cancer is eradicated
theguardian.com

What It’s Like to Trip on the Most Potent Magic Mushroom
theatlantic.com

Small Asteroid Strikes Africa Just Hours After It Was Spotted
gizmodo.com

Is America Ready for the Next Superstorm?
newrepublic.com

The metamorphosis of masturbation
wellcomecollection.org

Toronto police officer on paid suspension for 11 years could finally be fired
cbc.ca

‘I was looking for my mother but found my twin instead’
bbc.com

Hell on Wheels: The Rogue World of One of New York’s Major Trash Haulers
features.propublica.org

National Security Agency (NSA) security/motivational posters from the 1950s and 1960s (PDF)
governmentattic.org

14 years ago today the Killdozer emerged
damninteresting.com

Disgust is likely to be structured around the people, practices and objects that pose disease risk
lshtm.ac.uk

The Psychology of Money
collaborativefund.com

The new lighter-than-air race for space
bbc.com

This Fish’s Eyes Turn Black When It Gets Mad
theatlantic.com

Guatemala volcano in pictures
bbc.com

Study: People faced with scheduled appointments perceive they have less time than in reality, and perform fewer tasks as a result
source.wustl.edu

Webring History: Social Media Before Social Media
tedium.co

Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk
atlasobscura.com

The Penguin That Loved Too Much
topic.com

Rice grown by Chinese scientists using seawater in Dubai’s deserts
scmp.com

Bringing back languages from scraps of paper
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

Team discover how microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
phys.org

The secrets of a diary written on castle floorboards
bbc.com

A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops
theguardian.com

Video: The Liquid Bomb Plot (Crime Documentary)
youtube.com

How my bipolar landed me in crippling debt
bbc.co.uk

Antibiotics greatly reduce effectiveness of cancer treatment – study
theguardian.com

Does Dark Matter Have an Electric Charge?
space.com

The strange tale of the hovertrain, the British hyperloop of the 1970s
wired.co.uk

At Folsom prison, Johnny Cash found his cause
washingtonpost.com

Three Bodies Found at House Where Massachusetts Kidnapping Suspect Lived
nytimes.com

Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI
bbc.com

Flooding And Rising Seas Threaten America’s Oldest Farmland
npr.org