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Police seize ‘super obedient’ lookout parrot trained by Brazilian drug dealers
theguardian.com

The English vegetable picked by candlelight
bbc.com

Nuremberg Trials audio recordings: saving the original records of Nazi atrocities
theverge.com

Glomar Explorer – the CIA and Howard Hughes’ Attempt to Raise a Sunken Russian Submarine
interestingengineering.com

Scientists discover what powers celestial phenomenon ‘STEVE’
news.agu.org

The Search for the Severed Head of the Himalayas
eos.org

NASA, FEMA, International Partners Plan Asteroid Impact Exercise
jpl.nasa.gov

New type of plastic is a recycling dream
arstechnica.com

Five years on, the Flint water crisis is nowhere near over
nationalgeographic.com

The best day to get married is a Tuesday in January
qz.com

Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings
ucsf.edu

Life May Have Evolved Before Earth Finished Forming
space.com

DNA as you’ve never seen it before, thanks to a new nanotechnology imaging method
theconversation.com

Just how hard is it to fight a parking ticket in L.A.? Here’s one Angeleno’s story
latimes.com

A pod of orcas is starving to death. A tribe has a radical plan to feed them
theguardian.com

Bursting the Aquarium Bubble
theatlantic.com

Opera singer with transplanted lungs dies
bbc.com

The Affluent Homeless: A Sleeping Pod, A Hired Desk And A Handful Of Clothes
npr.org

The History Behind Baseball’s Weirdest Pitch
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Kidnapping: A Very Efficient Business
nybooks.com

Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
harvardmagazine.com

The second largest emperor penguin colony in Antarctica disappears, satellite images show
bbc.com

Japan succeeds in creating world’s 1st man-made crater on asteroid
mainichi.jp

The Man Who Solved ‘Jeopardy!’
fivethirtyeight.com • (see also)

‘It’s not play if you’re making money’: how Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws
theguardian.com

‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’
wired.com

The Portly Victorian Undertaker Who Launched the World’s First Low-Carb Craze
narratively.com

Why a Traffic Flow Suddenly Turns Into a Traffic Jam
nautil.us

The need for an ending
aeon.co

Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats
nytimes.com

Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands
theguardian.com

R.D. Laing’s Radical Method for Treating Schizophrenia
topic.com

Seeing the quantum
aeon.co

Stockholm Syndrome: What really happened that summer day in 1973?
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

This is the slowest radioactive decay ever spotted
sciencenews.org

The neurobiology of noshing: Why is it so easy to overeat calorie-rich tasty foods?
medicalxpress.com

Meet OSCaR: Tiny Cubesat Would Clean Up Space Junk
space.com

Human Tongues Can Apparently Smell Things
livescience.com

The Meteoric Rise of Family Tree Forensics to Fight Crimes
wired.com

Russia Launches Belgorod, the World’s Longest Submarine
popularmechanics.com

How Beethoven went from Napoleon’s biggest fan to his worst critic
nationalgeographic.com

Japan Has a New Emperor. Now It Needs a Software Update.
nytimes.com

Lime Scooters Hacked to Say Sexual Things to Riders in Australia
gizmodo.com

U.S. Navy drafting new guidelines for reporting UFOs
politico.com

The ‘golden years’ of paparazzi have mostly gone
bbc.com

Meet the Botanists Who Climb the World’s Tallest Trees
earther.gizmodo.com

‘Not dead but gone: how a concussion changed my girlfriend’s personality forever’
theguardian.com

This Is the Way the Animals Arose: Not With a Bang, but With a Bunch of Bangs
theatlantic.com

Astrophysicists partially solve the mystery of how spiral galaxies maintain the shape of their arms
phys.org

Can you survive if you run out of air?
bbc.com • (see also)

The scandal of the lost babies
bbc.co.uk

NASA’s InSight Detects First Likely ‘Quake’ on Mars
jpl.nasa.gov

‘What I Learned From My Father’s Murder’
thewalrus.ca

Killer in the White House
saturdayeveningpost.com

Asteroid Bennu Goes Technicolor in 3-D NASA View
space.com

Australian ship discovered off Victoria 77 years after Japanese submarine attack
theguardian.com

Inside the Quietly Lucrative Business of Donating Human Eggs
wired.com

How a Meteor Crash Formed Stunning Desert Glass
atlasobscura.com

The designer baby debate could start a war
qz.com

Have hen will travel: the man who sailed round the world with a chicken
theguardian.com