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How Scientists Discovered What Dirty Air Does to Kids’ Health
citylab.com

Blind People Really Do Have More Sensitive Hearing, MRI Study Finds
gizmodo.com

How Amazon’s Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine
spectrum.ieee.org

How Can A Black Hole’s Singularity Spin?
forbes.com

How ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ inspired the cathedral’s 19th-century revival
theconversation.com

If it actually works, the Volk One smartphone would enable unlimited secure data on a mesh network with no carrier
volkfi.com

Big tick energy: how a tiny flea created a revolution in British art
theguardian.com

USA: Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes
propublica.org

Who was Leonardo da Vinci and what can we learn from him?
theguardian.com

Opioid Epidemic: One West Virginia Doctor’s Redemption
theatlantic.com

Photo: Gorillas pose for selfie with rescuers
bbc.com

The Radical Dissent of Helen Keller
yesmagazine.org

NASA is working on a camera that could save humanity from extinction
qz.com

Mercenaries, Spies, and Double Agents Gather En Masse in Bogotá
bloomberg.com

This scientist thinks she has the key to curb climate change: super plants
theguardian.com

Should prostitution be a normal profession?
bbc.com

Inside The Shadow War Fought By Russian Mercenaries
buzzfeednews.com

Japan’s ‘vanishing’ Ainu will finally be recognized as indigenous people
cnn.com

Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion.
nytimes.com

General anesthesia hijacks sleep circuitry to knock you out
medicalxpress.com

The profoundly deaf girl who found her voice after brain surgery
bbc.com

Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling
nytimes.com

The world’s second-biggest Ebola outbreak is still raging. Here’s why.
nationalgeographic.com

Luna 15: The Soviet Probe That Tried to Gatecrash America’s First Moon Landing
amusingplanet.com • (see also)

26 Real Animals That Shouldn’t Exist, But Do Anyway
atlasobscura.com

Twenty Years After Columbine
newyorker.com

Experiment discovered a man who can’t cooperate due to brain damage
qz.com

Expeditions to the North Pole Are on Ice
slate.com

When Futurism Led to Fascism—and Why It Could Happen Again
wired.com

Linguists found the world’s “weirdest” languages—and English is one of them
qz.com

Looking for Shakespeare’s Library
laphamsquarterly.org

How Luxury Developers Use a Loophole to Build Soaring Towers for the Ultrarich in N.Y.
nytimes.com

Jerrie Cobb dies at 88; denied a trip to space, she was first female astronaut candidate
latimes.com

California couple sentenced to life in prison for torturing 12 children
theguardian.com

A Soda Company’s Long Obsession With Outer Space
theatlantic.com • (see also)

The Data All Guilt-Ridden Parents Need
nytimes.com

We’ve been warned about AI and music for over 50 years, but no one’s prepared
theverge.com

The Cataclysmic Break That (Maybe) Occurred in 1950
theatlantic.com

Mind control, levitation and no pain: the race to find a superman in sport
theguardian.com

How to Count a Billion Birds
hakaimagazine.com

A scientist used chalk in a box to show that bats use sunsets to migrate
sciencenews.org

Discovery may help explain why women get autoimmune diseases far more often than men
medicalxpress.com

How superstitions spread
phys.org

This Quantum Computer Can See the Future — All 16 of Them
livescience.com

Why Did the Victorians Harbor Warm Feelings for Leeches?
daily.jstor.org

Tiny Mercury May Have a Solid Metallic Core That Rivals Earth’s
space.com

Two new studies confirm that weight control is often the result of genetics, not willpower
nytimes.com

Charlotte Brontë’s hair found in ring on Antiques Roadshow, say experts
theguardian.com

How Japan carpet bombed India with posters against Britain during World War II
qz.com

Every three minutes, an earthquake strikes in California
nationalgeographic.com

‘Concreteberg’ The Weight Of A Blue Whale Plagues London’s Sewers
npr.org

A neural network can read scientific papers and render a plain-English summary
techxplore.com

How One of America’s Biggest Pastors Became a Drug Runner for a Mexican Cartel
vanityfair.com

How Old Are Saturn’s Rings? The Debate Rages On
scientificamerican.com

A Brief History of Cooties
smithsonianmag.com

Bronze Age Shipwreck Discovered Off The Coast Of Turkey
forbes.com

Under the Depression Helmet
theatlantic.com

Sore knee? Maybe you have a fabella
bbc.com

Designing the First Full-Time Human Habitat on the Moon
citylab.com

Searching for the world’s last remaining sawfish
nationalgeographic.com