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The Master of Spin
cjr.org

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Making sense of how the blind ‘see’ color
news.harvard.edu

Siberia’s ancient ghost clan starts to surrender its secrets
nature.com

More support for Planet Nine
phys.org

Astronomers have detected a stealthy black hole from its effects on an interstellar gas cloud
nao.ac.jp

Simulated Mission in Chilean Desert Shows How a Rover Could Detect Life on Mars
gizmodo.com

Out in the Cold: Four mentally disabled men died in woods. But what happened to the fifth?
sacbee.com

Rare Australian Twins Are “Semi-Identical,” Sharing 78 Percent of Their DNA
inverse.com • (see also)

The Unsolved Mystery of the Earth Blobs
eos.org

Meet the super climbers who came to the rescue on the ‘Killer Mountain’
nationalgeographic.com

Physicists Propose Hunting for Signs of Dark Matter in Ancient Minerals
gizmodo.com

A Man’s Trouble Smelling Was Caused By a Tooth Growing in His Nose
livescience.com

In 1930s Tunisia, French Doctors Feared a ‘Tea Craze’ Would Destroy Society
atlasobscura.com

Known as the Kayak Killer, she is out on parole and looking to clear her name.
elle.com

Astronomers Have Scanned The Weird ‘Megastructure’ Star For Signs of Alien Lasers
sciencealert.com

The Wild Conspiracy That the Titanic Never Sank
popularmechanics.com

Revealed: the physics of sticky tape
cosmosmagazine.com

Why Do We Crave Sweets When We’re Stressed?
scientificamerican.com

A Troubling Discovery in the Deepest Ocean Trenches
theatlantic.com

How your language reflects the senses you use
bbc.com

Science: You’re Definitely Worrying About the Wrong Things
lithub.com

‘We donte want to hurt anney one’: Bonnie and Clyde’s poetry revealed
theguardian.com

When Does an Accident Become a Crime?
texasmonthly.com

Scientists Are 99.9999 Percent Sure Humans Caused Climate Change
futurism.com

Ancient Angkor’s mysterious decline may have been slow, not sudden
sciencenews.org

NASA Study Reproduces Origins of Life on Ocean Floor
jpl.nasa.gov

‘House of Tomorrow,’ Futuristic Marvel from the 1933 World’s Fair, Is Available to Lease
smithsonianmag.com

Man’s Radioactive Remains Spread Radiation All Over Cremation Chamber
livescience.com

The Jim Crow Car: The North, the South and the forgotten origins of racial separation
washingtonpost.com

How a one-handed champion is reinventing rock climbing
nationalgeographic.com

Humpback Whale Washes Ashore in Amazon River, Baffling Scientists in Brazil
nytimes.com

The Mystery of Antarctica’s Missing Meteorites
theatlantic.com

Vandals decapitate 800-year-old ‘crusader’
bbc.com

Red-meat allergies might be caused primarily by ticks, not the deer blood they transmit
qz.com

Can America Still Build Big? A California Rail Project Raises Doubts
nytimes.com

Mount Vesuvius Didn’t Kill Everyone in Pompeii. Where Did the Survivors Go?
livescience.com

Is Japan losing its umami?
bbc.com

How Grand Canyon National Park Will Look in 100 Years
outsideonline.com

Inside the Secret Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics
nytimes.com • (see also)

New parents face up to six years of sleep deprivation, study says
theguardian.com

How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know, by Oliver Sacks
newyorker.com

Meet the skier who made the ‘impossible’ first solo descent of K2
nationalgeographic.com

Split-Sex Animals Are Unusual, Yes, but Not as Rare as You’d Think
nytimes.com

Is the World’s Largest Animal Too Reliant on the Past?
theatlantic.com

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
theverge.com

Never before seen Nasa photos show the majesty of space travel
wired.co.uk

One in 200 people is a slave. Why?
theguardian.com

Image: Juno Exposes Dramatic Atmospheric Features of Jupiter
scitechdaily.com

Science history: Elektro the smoking robot
cosmosmagazine.com

In violent Manila, another body and another cold case amid war on drugs
washingtonpost.com

It’s not termites: new study gives fresh take on how “fairy circles” form
arstechnica.com

ESA Seeks New Spacesuit Material for Lunar Astronauts. But It Has to Be the Right Stuff.
space.com

‘FarFarOut’: Nasa astronomer finds potential furthest object in solar system
theguardian.com

Hayabusa 2: Asteroid image shows touchdown marks
bbc.com

An Archaeologist Says He’s Figured Out The Secret of The Pyramids’ Peculiar Alignment
sciencealert.com

The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future
newyorker.com

The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them.
nytimes.com

Sergei Krikalev: The Man Who Went Up a Soviet And Came Down a Russian
amusingplanet.com

107 Years, 2.5 Million Outfits, Countless Characters: Inside Hollywood’s “Magical” Mecca of Costumes
hollywoodreporter.com