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Did a Drug Company Illegally Experiment on a Louisiana Prisoner?
newrepublic.com

How Bad Is It to Eat Gum From a 30-Year-Old Pack of Baseball Cards?
melmagazine.com

Meet the pigs that could solve the human organ transplant crisis
technologyreview.com

Creepy Music and Soviet Spycraft: The Amazing Life of Leon Theremin
blogs.discovermagazine.com

Will Graphene Deliver on Its Promise?
daily.jstor.org

Bacardi’s Head Honcho Once Tried to Bomb Castro’s Cuba
atlasobscura.com

A type of brainwave may help clean your brain while you sleep
newscientist.com

The woman who reshaped maths
bbc.com

Daylight saving time 2019: The odd history of changing our clocks
nationalgeographic.com

The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: Texas Instruments’ Speak & Spell
spectrum.ieee.org

Spiders inspire double-sided sticky tape to heal wounds
bbc.com

Measles wipes out immune system’s memory, study finds
theguardian.com

Scientists discover a new class of smaller black holes
news.sky.com

Is a New Particle Changing the Fate of the Universe?
livescience.com

Five hundred goats save the Ronald Reagan library from wildfires
theguardian.com

Japan proposes wooden cars made of plant-based cellulose nanofibers
newatlas.com

‘I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb’
vice.com

System provides cooling with no electricity
news.mit.edu

Researchers are abolishing an ancient epidemic — and trying to prevent the next one before it starts
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A Man Had a Bag of Weed Removed From His Nose After 18 Years
vice.com

Long-awaited cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition
washingtonpost.com

When the Web Was Weird
popularmechanics.com

What It’s Like to Work in a Flying Smoke Laboratory
earther.gizmodo.com

Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start
thedailybeast.com

In the hot seat: Behind Hot Ones’ ambitions to be the future of late-night TV
theverge.com

NASA Is Getting Serious About an Interstellar Mission
wired.com

The Berlin Candy Bomber
amusingplanet.com

The Dark Side of the ‘Angel’s Share’
atlasobscura.com

This Is the End of the Earth
laphamsquarterly.org • (see also)

What Turned This Woman’s Pee a Striking Shade of Lilac?
livescience.com

We thought this bear was out cold. We were mistaken.
nationalgeographic.com

How did being happy become a matter of relentless competitive work?
aeon.co

‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner
theguardian.com

Why plants panic when it rains
phys.org

On the troubling trail of psychiatry’s pseudopatients stunt
nature.com • (see also)

Ray Bradbury’s FBI Files : Murder, Lists And Commie Science Fiction
flashbak.com

Photographing the Dark: Nadar’s Descent into the Paris Catacombs
publicdomainreview.org

Perceptions of Musical Octaves Are Learned, Not Wired in the Brain
quantamagazine.org

Caught in a love triangle, teens hatched a murder plot. It couldn’t have gone worse.
sfgate.com

NASA’s Voyager Missions Were Amazing. Now Scientists Want a True Interstellar Probe
space.com • (see also)

How long space voyages could mess with our minds
bbc.com

Russia finds new Arctic islands amid great power competition with US
businessinsider.com • (see also)

New Lithium Ion Battery Design Could Allow Electric Vehicles to Be Charged in Ten Minutes
realclearscience.com

Meet the neuroscientist debunking the age-old myth of the gendered brain
thenextweb.com

Scientists Demonstrate Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans
scientificamerican.com

Life on the Zambezi Is Hard. The Climate Crisis Is Making It Deadly
bloomberg.com

The DNA database used to find the Golden State Killer is a national security leak waiting to happen
technologyreview.com

What lies beneath
vox.com • (see also)

DC-X: The NASA Rocket That Inspired SpaceX and Blue Origin
blogs.discovermagazine.com

The Cirrus Vision Is the Private Jet That Lands Itself
popularmechanics.com • (From 2005)

Satellites Track the World’s Longest Lightning Bolt
earther.gizmodo.com • (see also)

The Weird Weather Fanning the Flames in California
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On this day in 1961 the Soviet Union detonated the most powerful bomb ever constructed
damninteresting.com

Image: Jupiter’s Cloud Tops: From High to Low
nasa.gov

The Super-Optimized Dirt That Helps Keep Racehorses Safe
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The Mischievous ‘Ghost Hoaxers’ of 19th-Century Australia
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This Is Why Einstein’s Greatest Blunder Really Was A Tremendous Mistake
forbes.com

The Debatable Land of Fungi
laphamsquarterly.org

King Tutankhamun: How a tomb cast a spell on the world
bbc.com • (see also)

The SpaceX Starship is a very big deal
caseyhandmer.wordpress.com