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Analysis: Why did the golden age of The Simpsons end?
nathancunn.com

On this day in 1961 the USSR detonated the most powerful atomic bomb in history
damninteresting.com

‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails
centauri-dreams.org

NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch
nasa.gov

Scientists Home in on the Best ‘Water Worlds’ to Search for Alien Life
space.com

The Ziggurat of Choga Zanbil
amusingplanet.com

Betting on bats for genetic treasures
knowablemagazine.org

How NASA Will Use Robots to Create Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil
spectrum.ieee.org

Here Are the Real (and Freaky) Experiments That Inspired ‘Frankenstein’
livescience.com

What We Learned from the Deaths at Yarnell Hill
outsideonline.com

Fake drugs: the global industry putting your life at risk
mosaicscience.com

Illuminating the ‘dark web’
theconversation.com

Coral Castle: A Haunting Monument to Love. Or Aliens. Or Limestone.
bittersoutherner.com

The Get-Rich-Quick Scheme That Almost Killed a German Soccer Team
bloomberg.com

Annual ‘Suffocations’ Are the Forest Fires of the Ocean
popularmechanics.com

Medieval Europeans Didn’t Have Tupperware, They Had Pastry Coffins
atlasobscura.com

Trolling the Monster in the Heart of the Milky Way (autoplay video)
nytimes.com

A Metrological Trick to Stealing Land and Cheating Peasants
theatlantic.com

Niels Högel: German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients
bbc.com

Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal
scientificamerican.com

The Time Capsule That’s as Big as Human History
gq.com

Scientists Have Found The Largest Deep-Sea Nursery, With More Than 1000 Octopuses
sciencealert.com

The First Car in the World Was Hilariously Bad and Awful and Brilliant
jalopnik.com

Astronomers Propose Huge New Telescope System to Understand the Most Energetic Particles Ever Detected
gizmodo.com

Scientists debunk the effectiveness of EnChroma glasses for colorblind people
phys.org

A NASA Spacecraft Just Broke the Record for Closest Approach to Sun
space.com

‘The SOS in my Halloween decorations’
bbc.com

The Civil War massacre that left nearly 200 black soldiers ‘murdered’
washingtonpost.com

Descent into darkness: How a B.C. man wound up dead in Peru
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

America’s trailblazing racer, Denise McCluggage
si.com

On or around this day in 1982, a pipeline in Siberia exploded, allegedly due to American software sabotage
damninteresting.com

Slot machines flash and ring to prompt more bets
cosmosmagazine.com

Chocolate Has a New Origin Story
gizmodo.com

Can Seabiscuit’s DNA explain his elite racing ability?
theconversation.com

In 1590, Starving Parisians Ground Human Bones Into Bread
atlasobscura.com

The Day the Great Plains Burned
newyorker.com

The Saltier the Licorice, the Happier the Country. Just Look at Finland.
nytimes.com

The shame of ‘Sir’: British honours and decolonisation
aeon.co

If you think the First World War began senselessly, consider how it ended.
newyorker.com

Jack the Ripper murders still unsolved after a century
nationalgeographic.com

Redefining the Kilogram
scientificamerican.com

A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Violence in America
theatlantic.com

Dogs can detect malaria by sniffing people’s socks
theguardian.com

The cost of keeping Singapore squeaky clean
bbc.com

Endgame: how Australian preppers are bugging out and hunkering down
theguardian.com

The Mines of Messines Ridge
amusingplanet.com

The magical realism of Santa Cruz del Islote – photo essay
theguardian.com

Social Inequality Left Its Mark on 5,000-Year-Old Alpine Village
livescience.com

Sooty Feathers Tell the History of Pollution in American Cities
audubon.org

Murder on the Prairies: Fire, lies and a missing deer head
theglobeandmail.com

Daylight saving ends in Europe, in what could be the last time the continent turns back the clocks
abc.net.au

Focus on western women ‘skewed our ideas of what birth should look like’
theguardian.com

Forgotten Voyage: The Sinking of the SS Princess Sophia
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

Why Is an Icicle Like an Icicle?
thewalrus.ca

12 Mind-Bending Perceptual Illusions
nautil.us

Eye Candy: Fossil Flowers Bloomed When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Scientists call for ‘mega-mission’ to find ancient life on Mars
theguardian.com

The Higgs boson may have stopped the early universe from collapsing
newscientist.com

The ingenious story behind Michelin stars
bbc.com

In Antarctica, climate change is having surprising impacts
nationalgeographic.com