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03 July 2019

Illinois’ first capital is an island that’s home to just 18 people. Recent flooding has made it even more isolated.

chicagotribune.com

Interview With A Serial Killer

crimereads.com

The first socialist

aeon.co

Social isolation makes spiders aggressive

cosmosmagazine.com

The Science Of Smiles, Real And Fake

npr.org

How Cassini Ran Rings Around Saturn and What It Helped Us Learn

eos.org

Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction

phys.org

Why Is It ‘Snowing’ Salt in the Dead Sea?

livescience.com

New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill

nytimes.com • (see also)

Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer

jpl.nasa.gov

Linnaeus’s Flower Clock: Keeping Time With Flowers

amusingplanet.com

This Jellyfish Robot Is Much More Than Just a Good Swimmer

wired.com

World’s smallest MRI performed on single atoms

phys.org

How a Prison Cooking Show Connects Residents to Life Outside

bonappetit.com

The Art and Science of Remembering

elemental.medium.com • (see also)

Sun, Sand, and the $1.5 Trillion Dark Offshore Economy

bloomberg.com

Red, white but rarely blue – the science of fireworks colors, explained

theconversation.com

Who disarms Germany’s WWII bombs?

dw.com

Scientists track arctic fox that walked 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada

sfgate.com

Plane Crash Investigators Describe the Horrors of Digging Through Wreckage

vice.com

US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis

bbc.com

Drugs on a coil free patients from the burden of taking pills for treating infectious diseases

theconversation.com

A tip from the highway patrol: Carpooling with the dead doesn’t mean you get to use the HOV lane

latimes.com

For Smart Animals, Octopuses Are Very Weird

theatlantic.com

02 July 2019

Video: 16 Levels of Piano Composition: Easy to Complex [10:30]

youtube.com • (see also)

Hubble Captures Cosmic Fireworks in Ultraviolet

spacetelescope.org

The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency

longreads.com

Melting Greenland Is Awash in Sand

nytimes.com • (see also)

Dive beneath the pyramids of Egypt’s black pharaohs

nationalgeographic.com

Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists’ phones

theguardian.com

On this day in 1881 a mentally disturbed individual shot US President James Garfield

damninteresting.com

A once-classified anomaly nearly killed NASA’s first moon astronauts, a new book reveals

insider.com

The Long, Slow Death of Venice

bloomberg.com

How Should Space Settlers Keep Track of Time?

slate.com

Deer antlers are a ‘controlled’ form of bone cancer growth

bigthink.com

The Woman Who Sneaked Into George Washington’s Army

nytimes.com

What happened when my flight was invaded by ants

theguardian.com

Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?

theconversation.com

Plane stowaways: Do any survive?

bbc.com

When pirates studied Euclid

aeon.co

Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?

nytimes.com

Speed kills: are police chases out of control?

theguardian.com

01 July 2019

The Sheriff Lost Reelection. Then the Spending Spree Began.

propublica.org

Psychologists Have Identified The Creatures We Find Most Scary And Revolting

digest.bps.org.uk

The First Responders

magazine.atavist.com

The Pitfalls of Searching for Alien Life

undark.org

Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

quantamagazine.org

Researchers reach milestone in use of nanoparticles to kill cancer with heat

today.oregonstate.edu

Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’

nytimes.com

60 years ago today a social psychologist brought together three mental patients who all thought they were Jesus Christ

damninteresting.com

The death of the sidewalk

washingtonpost.com

AI Created a 3D Replica of Our Universe. We Have No Idea How It Works.

livescience.com • (see also)

White Holes: Do Black Holes Have Mirror Images?

blogs.discovermagazine.com

On Titan, Dragonfly Will Peer at the “Chemistry That Led to Life” on Earth

inverse.com

How collapsing civilizations have helped the world

theweek.com

First Army battalion with mini drones heading to Afghanistan

stripes.com

10 Medical Myths We Should Stop Believing. Doctors, Too

nytimes.com

Interstellar Mold Is Becoming a Problem for Space Travel

vice.com

For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes

atlasobscura.com

The Second Coming of the Robot Pet

wired.com

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Illinois’ first capital is an island that’s home to just 18 people. Recent flooding has made it even more isolated.

Interview With A Serial Killer

The first socialist

Social isolation makes spiders aggressive

The Science Of Smiles, Real And Fake

How Cassini Ran Rings Around Saturn and What It Helped Us Learn

Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction

Why Is It ‘Snowing’ Salt in the Dead Sea?

New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill

Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer

Linnaeus’s Flower Clock: Keeping Time With Flowers

This Jellyfish Robot Is Much More Than Just a Good Swimmer

World’s smallest MRI performed on single atoms

How a Prison Cooking Show Connects Residents to Life Outside

The Art and Science of Remembering

Sun, Sand, and the $1.5 Trillion Dark Offshore Economy

Red, white but rarely blue – the science of fireworks colors, explained

Who disarms Germany’s WWII bombs?

Scientists track arctic fox that walked 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada

Plane Crash Investigators Describe the Horrors of Digging Through Wreckage

US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis

Drugs on a coil free patients from the burden of taking pills for treating infectious diseases

A tip from the highway patrol: Carpooling with the dead doesn’t mean you get to use the HOV lane

For Smart Animals, Octopuses Are Very Weird

Video: 16 Levels of Piano Composition: Easy to Complex [10:30]

Hubble Captures Cosmic Fireworks in Ultraviolet

The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency

Melting Greenland Is Awash in Sand

Dive beneath the pyramids of Egypt’s black pharaohs

Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists’ phones

On this day in 1881 a mentally disturbed individual shot US President James Garfield

A once-classified anomaly nearly killed NASA’s first moon astronauts, a new book reveals

The Long, Slow Death of Venice

How Should Space Settlers Keep Track of Time?

Deer antlers are a ‘controlled’ form of bone cancer growth

The Woman Who Sneaked Into George Washington’s Army

What happened when my flight was invaded by ants

Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?

Plane stowaways: Do any survive?

When pirates studied Euclid

Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?

Speed kills: are police chases out of control?

The Sheriff Lost Reelection. Then the Spending Spree Began.

Psychologists Have Identified The Creatures We Find Most Scary And Revolting

The First Responders

The Pitfalls of Searching for Alien Life

Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

Researchers reach milestone in use of nanoparticles to kill cancer with heat

Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’

60 years ago today a social psychologist brought together three mental patients who all thought they were Jesus Christ

The death of the sidewalk

AI Created a 3D Replica of Our Universe. We Have No Idea How It Works.

White Holes: Do Black Holes Have Mirror Images?

On Titan, Dragonfly Will Peer at the “Chemistry That Led to Life” on Earth

How collapsing civilizations have helped the world

First Army battalion with mini drones heading to Afghanistan

10 Medical Myths We Should Stop Believing. Doctors, Too

Interstellar Mold Is Becoming a Problem for Space Travel

For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes

The Second Coming of the Robot Pet

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