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Ashley’s foster home seemed perfect. It held a dark secret.
indystar.com

The Saga Of ‘Star Citizen,’ A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To Play
forbes.com

Researchers attach fake wings to an ostrich to learn about the early evolution of flight
sciencenews.org

Billionaire founder of opioid firm guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe drug
theguardian.com

Mapping America’s wicked weather and deadly disasters
washingtonpost.com

In a neglected cemetery lie black jockeys who helped create the Kentucky Derby
latimes.com

For the first time ever there are now more people in the world older than 65 than younger than 5
reason.com

The Ruthless, Secretive, and Sometimes Seedy World of Hedge Fund Private Investigators
institutionalinvestor.com

The murderous history of Bible translations
historyextra.com

Ancient millipede found, trapped in amber
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These trippy images were designed by AI to super-stimulate monkey neurons
medicalxpress.com

Gigantic Ice Formation Found on Saturn’s Moon Titan
scientificamerican.com

The Mystery of Human Uniqueness
nautil.us

3-Eyed Snake Found in Australia Surprises Rangers
livescience.com

How to Move a Masterpiece? If It’s This Big, Very Carefully
nytimes.com

Demolishing the City of the Future
tribunemag.co.uk

Girls And Gardens : The English Lady’s Autochromes (c.1908)
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A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
blog.chriszacharias.com

China’s furtive underwater nukes test the Pentagon
reuters.com

Why Water Is Weird
nautil.us

France’s fascinating ‘wine treatment’
bbc.com

The many human errors that brought down the Boeing 737 Max
theverge.com

What Happens to a Factory Town When the Factory Shuts Down?
nytimes.com

How the world’s largest lion relocation was pulled off
nationalgeographic.com

Against cheerfulness
aeon.co

How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
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Your Cosmetics May Be Killing You
thewalrus.ca

Leonardo da Vinci’s lost masterpieces
bbc.com

Are the hyper-specialist shops of Berlin the future of retail?
theguardian.com

The Race to Develop the Moon
newyorker.com

The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined
quantamagazine.org

Machine, Learning, 1951
the-scientist.com

Gas That Makes a Mountain Breathe Fire Is Turning Up Around the World
nytimes.com

Blaming Women for Infertility in the 1940s
daily.jstor.org

The Short-Lived Airline That Shuttled Sightseers to America’s National Parks
atlasobscura.com

Mysterious ancient human found on the ‘roof of the world’
nationalgeographic.com

Star unlike any found in the Milky Way appears to be an intergalactic intruder
newatlas.com

The tricks of airport design
bbc.com

How scientists traced a uranium cube to Nazi Germany’s nuclear reactor program
sciencenews.org • (see also)

The Spycraft Revolution
foreignpolicy.com • (see also)

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Author
crimereads.com

Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers
nytimes.com • (see also)

Scientists find cocaine in shrimps in Suffolk rivers
bbc.com

A ‘miracle’ healing gel, a cult-like following, and a fiercely protected empire
theguardian.com

When Your Amazon Purchase Explodes
theatlantic.com

NASA Says Metals Fraud Caused $700 Million Satellite Failure
bloomberg.com

Sex and the Cosmic City
discovermagazine.com

Box jellyfish: Australian researchers find antidote for world’s most venomous creature
theguardian.com

The Case of the Stolen Ruby Slippers
washingtonpost.com

New research takes deeper look at Venus’s clouds
phys.org

How Language Shapes the Brain
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Astronomers identify the remains of a supernova recorded by Chinese observers in 48 BCE
uni-goettingen.de

Scientists Planning Now for Asteroid Flyby a Decade Away
jpl.nasa.gov • (see also)

Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us
nytimes.com

New giant virus may help scientists better understand the emergence of complex life
eurekalert.org

How Alcoholics Anonymous lied to the American people
nypost.com

Collecting the Bizarre Homemade Cars of Russia’s Soviet Past
jalopnik.com

The Book Thief of Monastery Mountain
narratively.com

Hackers Steal and Ransom Financial Data Related to Some of the World’s Largest Companies
motherboard.vice.com

Around The World In Kodachrome – A Nobel Laureate’s Outstanding Travel Photographs
flashbak.com