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Viral ‘Smart Bombs’ Are Becoming Weapons Against Superbugs
bloomberg.com

Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables?
newyorker.com • (see also)

Did bees live in the time of dinosaurs?
theconversation.com

Burglars Really Do Use Bluetooth Scanners to Find Laptops and Phones
wired.com

Caligula’s Pleasure Ships of Lake Nemi
amusingplanet.com

Finding the Words to Describe a Disaster
laphamsquarterly.org • (see also)

Special immune cells found in people aged 110+ are rare in the young
newatlas.com

The Problem With Crime Junkie
indianapolismonthly.com • (see also)

Scientists discover body’s protection shield
phys.org

Why the world is running out of sand
bbc.com

From Ancient Seeds to Scraps of Clothing, Rats’ Nests Are Full of Treasures
smithsonianmag.com

In a first, fossil dinosaur feathers found near the South Pole
nationalgeographic.com

What It Means to Name a Forgotten Murder Victim
theatlantic.com

The Innocent Pleasure of Trespassing
currentaffairs.org

Google search results have more human help than you think, report finds
arstechnica.com

21-Year Old WWII Soldier’s Sketchbooks Reveal a Visual Diary of His Experiences
mymodernmet.com

Last Survivor of 1937 Hindenburg Disaster Dies at Age 90
time.com • (see also)

Using aluminum and lasers to make bendable glass
phys.org

Japan team finds 143 stunning new images in Nazca Lines of Peru
asahi.com

Burning Out: The worst disasters are getting worse
longreads.com

Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, 1989 – in pictures
theguardian.com

Video: 1,000km Cable to the Stars – The Skyhook [8:14]
youtube.com • (see also)

A crime of opportunity: Why some shoppers steal at self-checkout
cbc.ca

Firefox’s fight for the future of the web
theguardian.com

Why you shouldn’t salt a leech that’s sucking your blood
cbc.ca • (see also)

Here’s a better way to convert dog years to human years, scientists say
sciencemag.org

New AI System Predicts Seizures With Near-Perfect Accuracy
spectrum.ieee.org

How the world’s biggest gun helped solve a long-standing space mystery
technologyreview.com • (see also)

Video: Side-by-side comparison: Zero Hour! (1957) Vs Airplane! (1980) [14:17]
youtube.com • (see also)

How Chilean Protesters Took Down a Drone With Standard Laser Pointers
nextgov.com

The Education of Natalie Jean
elle.com

Weird earthquake just put a crack in France
nationalgeographic.com

The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
medium.com

The diabetes patients who hacked a pancreas
expmag.com

The Disappearance of John M. Ford
slate.com

45 years ago today NASA broadcast a message toward globular star cluster M13
damninteresting.com

The toxic killers in our air too small to see
bbc.com

NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in ‘Dance of Avoidance’
jpl.nasa.gov

‘Your throat hurts. Your brain hurts’: the secret life of the audiobook star
theguardian.com

The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder
wired.com

Richard Jewell and the Night of the Atlanta Olympics Bombing
crimereads.com • (see also)

Does Anyone Rob Banks Anymore?
melmagazine.com • (see also)

Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai
technologyreview.com

How biohackers are trying to upgrade their brains, their bodies — and human nature
vox.com

You Can Own This Former ICBM Silo in the Arizona Desert
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

Ch’arki: The First Jerky
daily.jstor.org

This Is Why Three Of The Lightest Elements Are So Cosmically Rare
forbes.com • (see also)

The Sad, Grotesque Life of “Baboon Lady” Julia Pastrana
lithub.com

Physicists irreversibly split photons by freezing them in a Bose-Einstein condensate
phys.org

The £7,500 dress that does not exist
bbc.com

‘Our Study Suggests Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist’
realclearscience.com

Apes Might Know That You Don’t Know What They Know
theatlantic.com • (see also)

How the tofu is made: By incinerating plastic shipped from the U.S.
thestar.com

Do Babies Cry in Different Languages?
parenting.nytimes.com

Newborn baby hiccups could be key to brain development
eurekalert.org

Video: Automatic Strike Bowling Ball [7:31]
youtube.com

Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change
cnn.com

Zoonoses: The Diseases Our Cats and Dogs Give Us
blogs.discovermagazine.com

Researchers 3D-Printed Plastic Cubes With Complex Patterns That Make them Bulletproof
gizmodo.com

Neo-Nazi ‘Atomwaffen Division’ Spreads Fear in Germany
spiegel.de