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Pyongyang panorama pulls back curtain on city of mystery
theguardian.com

On this day in 1973 workers hauled away the remains of an exceptional tree
damninteresting.com

On Harriet Tubman’s Final Escape Mission
lithub.com

Edmonton paddler discovers 65-million-year-old tree stump during riverbank pee break
cbc.ca

A new way to measure gravity: Using floating atoms
phys.org

Top 4 candidates in our solar system for terraforming
bigthink.com

How big tech is dragging us towards the next financial crash
theguardian.com

‘Noise’ in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals
quantamagazine.org

50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand?
theguardian.com

A ton of people received text messages overnight that were originally sent on Valentine’s Day
theverge.com

80 years ago today a German handyman (and/or time traveller) almost succeeded in assassinating Hitler
damninteresting.com

Why We Need to Map the Ocean Floor
nautil.us

‘I am scared all the time’: Chimps and people are clashing in rural Uganda
nationalgeographic.com

Thousands of rare ‘ice eggs’ found on beach in Finland
theguardian.com

Exotic Pets, Wild Blood, and the Search for Human-Animal Connection
lithub.com

Designing a Moon Suit for the 21st Century
airspacemag.com • (see also)

Imagined movements can alter our brains
medicalxpress.com • (see also)

World War II’s Worst Airplane
airspacemag.com • (see also)

Can a Trip-Free Psychedelic Still Help People With Depression?
vice.com

The Man Whose Face Got Stuck Like That
daily.jstor.org

The Labor Rights Film That Got Both of Its Directors Murdered by the Yakuza
hyperallergic.com

Wind Power Returns to the Shipping Industry
daily.jstor.org

Why was it believed that the Aztecs greeted Cortés as a deity?
laphamsquarterly.org

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum
lithub.com • (see also)

House plants have little effect on indoor air quality, study concludes
newatlas.com • (see also)

NASA Just Opened a Moon Rock Sample Which Has Been Untouched Since Apollo Era More Than 40 Years Ago
newsweek.com

What It Means to Evacuate
slate.com

Sex toys worth £1m stolen from lorry in Northamptonshire
bbc.com

A Million People on Mars May Not Be Wishful Thinking
airspacemag.com • (see also)

An elderly man in Hawaii died after falling into a lava tube hidden in his backyard
washingtonpost.com • (see also)

In case you missed it: We’re looking for an artist to collaborate on a graphic longform project
damninteresting.com

See the Mississippi River’s hidden history, uncovered by lasers
nationalgeographic.com

How Cloudflare Stood up to a Patent Troll – and Won
blog.cloudflare.com

What Would It Take to Unify Korea? Germany Offers Lessons.
theatlantic.com

Secrets in the Brains of People Who Have Committed Murder
the-scientist.com

Grave Matters: On the history of bringing dead American soldiers back home
laphamsquarterly.org

Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

The story of Tunnel 29
bbc.co.uk • (see also)

Spiders and ants inspire metal that won’t sink
phys.org

Dying for a better life: South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons
reuters.com

Inside Ancient Egyptian Cat Mummy, Archaeologists Find the Remains of 3 Cats
livescience.com

Inside the Microsoft team tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers
technologyreview.com

Scientists unlock the chemical secrets of a 19th-century photography technique
arstechnica.com • (see also)

People who lack olfactory bulbs shouldn’t be able to smell. But some women can
sciencenews.org • (see also)

The New Playground of an Unexpected Bose-Einstein Condensate
physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com • (see also)

Plague was around for millennia before epidemics took hold – and the way people lived might be what protected them
theconversation.com

What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics
newyorker.com

The Century Old ‘Dream Mine’ That’s Yet to Produce Gold
amusingplanet.com

Hitler’s Secret Antarctic Expedition for Whales
atlasobscura.com

Humans have spread a contagious form of cancer around the world
nytimes.com

‘The disappeared’: searching for 40,000 missing victims of Mexico’s drug wars
theguardian.com

The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment
lithub.com

Ancient 70-Mile-Long Wall Found in Western Iran. But Who Built It?
livescience.com

NASA’s Grueling Underwater Test for Astronauts
theatlantic.com

What Really Put The ‘Bang’ In The Big Bang?
forbes.com

This Congolese Doctor Discovered Ebola But Never Got Credit For It — Until Now
npr.org

Are you an artist? We’re looking for someone to collaborate on a nifty new project. Please help us spread the word.
damninteresting.com

Did This Planet Survive Getting Swallowed By Its Sun?
futurism.com

The Wrong Goodbye
features.propublica.org

11,000 scientists sign declaration of climate emergency
cbc.ca