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America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s
bloomberg.com

Why This Man’s Blood Turned ‘Milky’ Colored
livescience.com

‘I’d get 400 toilet rolls at a time’: how it feels to win a lifetime supply
theguardian.com

How a black man ‘outsmarted’ a neo-Nazi group — and became their new leader
washingtonpost.com

Athens’ bizarre underground phenomenon
bbc.com

Explore the Underground Railroad’s ‘great central depot’
nationalgeographic.com

The Brain That Remade Itself
onezero.medium.com

Brutal beetles kept world’s rarest fish from breeding—until now
nationalgeographic.com

One Twin Committed the Crime — but Which One? A New DNA Test Can Finger the Culprit
nytimes.com

NASA Is Building A Space Station In A Weird Orbit. Here’s Why
hackaday.com

The periodic table is 150 years old this week
economist.com

Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
brainpickings.org

When the River Took John Squires
outsideonline.com

Susceptibility to Mental Illness May Have Helped Humans Adapt over the Millennia
scientificamerican.com

What to Expect When You Were Expecting in Early Modern England
slate.com

Unsolved murder: Korean-American widow’s quest to find her husband’s killer takes strange turns
scmp.com

The ‘Golden Death’ Digests Worms From Inside Out
theatlantic.com

First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
phys.org

Pluto’s and Charon’s Craters Reveal a Solar System Deficit
eos.org

Gallery: Big spiders eating small vertebrates
cosmosmagazine.com

Here’s what happens when your body tissues turn to bone
nationalgeographic.com

This is your brain on bungee jumping: Cliff divers take the leap for science
arstechnica.com

Scientists can read the ‘rust’ on a person’s DNA to predict when they’ll die
cbc.ca

The Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media Into Publicizing His Bizarre Research on Suicide, Butt-Fisting, and Bestiality
gizmodo.com

Spain logs hundreds of shipwrecks that tell story of maritime past
theguardian.com

Israel’s Secret Founding Fathers
nytimes.com

Is DNA Left on Envelopes Fair Game for Testing?
theatlantic.com

On this day in 1943 a team of Norwegian commandos sabotaged the Nazi effort to build an A-bomb
damninteresting.com

The bizarre and brilliant rules for naming new stuff in space
thestar.com

How the Icefish Got Its Transparent Blood and See-Through Skull
nytimes.com

The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Art Thief
gq.com

The Hidden History of the Nutmeg Island That Was Traded for Manhattan
atlasobscura.com

These Mice Sing to One Another — Politely
nytimes.com

The Deadly Plant Sneeze
nautil.us

With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close In on an Explanation
quantamagazine.org

Bone Records: Soviet-Era Bootlegged Music on X-Rays
amusingplanet.com

Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud
nytimes.com

When Pan Am Promised to Fly Us to the Moon
popularmechanics.com

The Minnesota Murderess
magazine.atavist.com

The Helicopter Pilots Who Carpet-Bomb Islands to Battle Invasive Rats
earther.gizmodo.com

FBI finds 2,000 human bones at Indiana home: ‘Unlike anything we’d ever seen’
theguardian.com

Can You Be Executed for a Crime You Don’t Remember?
theatlantic.com

Kifafa: The mystery of East Africa’s ‘nodding disease’
bbc.com • (see also)

Nanotech Injections Give Mice Infrared Vision
theatlantic.com

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