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No word of a lie: scientists rate the world’s biggest peddlers of bull
theguardian.com

Ancient monument reveals secrets of horrific battle with Cleopatra that gave birth to the Roman Empire [autoplay video]
independent.co.uk

What an Everest Climb Looks Like in 2019
outsideonline.com

The World’s Greatest Delivery Empire
bloomberg.com

‘Ching, wap, ox’: slang interpreters decipher texts for court evidence
theguardian.com

Mount Everest: Melting glaciers expose dead bodies
bbc.com

The bizarre story of the L.A. dad who exposed the college admissions scandal
latimes.com

Russia Ordered a Killing That Made No Sense. Then the Assassin Started Talking.
nytimes.com

How Vitamins Went From Medical Marvel to Marketing Scam
slate.com

The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam
melmagazine.com

The keeper of the secret
washingtonpost.com

How Sovereign Citizens Helped Swindle $1 Billion From the Government They Disavow
nytimes.com

England’s oldest man says the secret to a long life is ‘avoid dying’
manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Cryptic pregnancies: ‘I didn’t know I was having a baby until I saw its head’
theguardian.com

The Tiger and the Tragic Trick: Siegfried & Roy’s Animal Handler Breaks Silence on Mauling, Alleges Cover-Up
hollywoodreporter.com

The Deadly Price of the Automation Paradox
thewalrus.ca

Here’s What the Speed of Light Looks Like in Slow Motion
livescience.com

How Pain Tolerance and Anxiety Seem to Be Connected
nytimes.com

Kuiper Belt Objects Are as Mysterious as They Are Distant
daily.jstor.org

For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature Almanacs Wherever They Went
atlasobscura.com

The story of the dacoit who spread violence to influence India’s first general elections
scroll.in

How cherry blossoms came to the United States
nationalgeographic.com

When a massive Caribbean volcano erupts, the island’s residents flee, leaving their beloved animals behind
medium.com

Here’s why a system designed to stabilize the 737 Max may have caused two deadly crashes in five months
nytimes.com

By finding two galaxies severely lacking in dark matter, researchers have made a compelling case for the existence of the mysterious material
astronomy.com

How the Little Ice Age Changed History
newyorker.com

From moms to medical doctors, burnout is everywhere these days
washingtonpost.com

Ghost Villages Are for Sale in Spain
bloomberg.com

There’s a Troubling Link Between Believing Conspiracy Theories And Petty Crime
sciencealert.com

Proof Finds That All Change Is a Mix of Order and Randomness
quantamagazine.org

3D-printed material is designed to treat difficult bone injuries
newatlas.com

What Happens When a Meteorite Hits a House?
interestingengineering.com

Closing in on a century-old mystery, scientists are figuring out what the body’s ‘tuft cells’ do
sciencemag.org

4 things we’ll learn from the first closeup image of a black hole
sciencenews.org

Military Tries Out Fish as Underwater Spies
scientificamerican.com

How to Avoid a Meteor
daily.jstor.org

Volcanoes! Lightning! And Radioactive Gas, Too
nytimes.com

‘The Most Wonderful Map in the World’: Urbano Monte’s Planisphere of 1587
resobscura.blogspot.com

NASA’s Cassini Finds Saturn’s Rings Coat Tiny Moons
jpl.nasa.gov

NASA Wants to Place Calls to Deep Space With X-Rays
spectrum.ieee.org

Last of the giants: What killed off Madagascar’s megafauna a thousand years ago?
theconversation.com

The Salton Sea is a disaster in the making. California isn’t doing anything to stop it
latimes.com • (see also)

The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments
nytimes.com

Portugal baby born to woman brain dead for three months
bbc.com

NASA proves its space helicopter can fly on Mars
engadget.com

On this day in 1951 a pipe bomb exploded in Grand Central Terminal. It was merely the first of many.
damninteresting.com

A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There
nautil.us

Seven ways the world is not designed for women
bbc.com

The Day the Dinosaurs Died
newyorker.com

Plagiarism, ‘book-stuffing’, clickfarms … the rotten side of self-publishing
theguardian.com • (see also)

Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry
arstechnica.com

To seize power in Spain, Queen Isabella had to play it smart
nationalgeographic.com

Canadian film made in language spoken by just 20 people in the world
theguardian.com

The Plague Killing Frogs Everywhere Is Far Worse Than Scientists Thought
nytimes.com

How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings turned baseball into a national sensation
theconversation.com

How mosquitoes smell human sweat (and new ways to stop them)
phys.org

The surprising (and Long) story of the first use of ether in surgery
theconversation.com

Study: Rivers raged on Mars late into its history
news.uchicago.edu

‘Why Don’t You Want Kids?’ ‘Because Apocalypse!’
wired.com

A study of ethicists finds they’re no more ethical than the rest of us
qz.com