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What It’s Like to Be a Male Porn Star in 2019
gq.com

After 40 years in solitary, activist Albert Woodfox tells his story of survival
theguardian.com

London HIV patient becomes world’s second AIDS cure hope
reuters.com

Supersonic: 50 years after its first flight, the Concorde story is still remarkable
newatlas.com

On this day in 1950 an extraordinary individual passed away
damninteresting.com

Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists
nationalgeographic.com

‘Elixir of Immortality’ Uncovered in 2,000-Year-Old Chinese Tomb
gizmodo.com

Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Once and Future King
nytimes.com

The myth linking vaccines to autism gets debunked by the largest study to date on the subject
qz.com

Why Smashing Asteroids to Save Earth Likely Won’t Work
space.com

How Did We Miss This? An Upper Atmospheric Discovery Named STEVE
eos.org

Tilted Exoplanets May Explain Decade-Old Astronomical Mystery
scientificamerican.com

Underground fire at Arkansas dump raises health concerns
apnews.com • (see also)

Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files
gizmodo.com

Drug Companies and Doctors Battle Over the Future of Fecal Transplants
nytimes.com

‘Do you ever think about me?’: the children sex tourists leave behind
theguardian.com

There’s been a mysterious surge in $100 bills in circulation, possibly linked to global corruption
cnbc.com

Our Culture of Contempt
nytimes.com

How AI Will Rewire Us
theatlantic.com

India: Opium-addicted parrots ‘wreak havoc’ for farmers
bbc.com

‘Underwear dates well’: how fashion forensics are helping solve crimes
theguardian.com

Study Finds Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work
artsy.net

In search of the Brocken spectre on Burley Moor
theguardian.com

Solar Wind Leaves ‘Sunburn’ Scars on the Moon
space.com

Giant Newfound ‘Medusa’ Virus Turns Amoebas to ‘Stone’
livescience.com

Gigantic Japanese detector prepares to catch neutrinos from supernovae
nature.com

Why Does Time Fly When You’re Having Fun?
livescience.com

Regulating Sex Work in Medieval Europe
daily.jstor.org

‘For Months, My Brother Was Being Attacked by an Undiagnosed Flesh-Eating Disease’
sciencealert.com

Science history: the misguided criminologist
cosmosmagazine.com

The Origin of Amethysts May Leave You Tingly
blogs.scientificamerican.com

The Kashmir conflict: How did it start?
nationalgeographic.com

Five advantages of being left-handed
theguardian.com

Does our immune system hold the key to beating Alzheimer’s disease?
theguardian.com

Could car design disappear in the autonomous future?
topgear.com

Houston, We Have a Dragon
theatlantic.com

The Absurd Structure of High School
medium.com

When Did the Verb “To Be” Enter the English Language?
daily.jstor.org

‘We didn’t sleep for 3 days’: How a network of women watched over Rahaf Mohammed’s escape to the West
cbc.ca

Wiped out: America’s love of luxury toilet paper is destroying Canadian forests
theguardian.com

Anarchy, Bitcoin, and Murder in Acapulco
wired.com

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