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Epilepsy Foundation Was Targeted in Mass Strobe Cyberattack
nytimes.com

Pakistan sentences former dictator to death in treason case
abcnews.go.com • (see also)

Audiovisual interactive: Among the World’s Most Dire Places: This California Homeless Camp
nytimes.com

How trillions of microbes affect every stage of our life—from birth to old age
nationalgeographic.com

The Rise and Fall of an All-Star Crew of Jewel Thieves
theatlantic.com

The Amazing Math Inside the Rubik’s Cube
popularmechanics.com

Video: Gastrotrichs: Four Day Old Grandmothers [10:32]
youtube.com

Fossilized Brains Found in Ancient Bug-Like Creatures
livescience.com

The Biggest Junk Science of 2019
realclearscience.com

MIT’s En-ROADS Climate Interactive (not supported on mobile)
en-roads.climateinteractive.org

Astronomers discover that roughly 100 very red, star-like sources have appeared and vanished in short period of time
su.se

75 years ago today Hiroo Onoda arrived on the island of Lubang, where he would spend the next 29 years fighting WW2
damninteresting.com

The War Vet, the Dating Site, and the Phone Call From Hell
wired.com

NASA solar probe confirms asteroid source of Geminids meteor shower
astronomy.com

Study: This spicy vegetable could lower risk of death by 23 percent
inverse.com

Can You Catch a Cold and the Flu at the Same Time?
livescience.com

A Doctor’s Diary: The Overnight Shift in the E.R.
nytimes.com

The Nevada Town Where Storm Area 51 Sort Of Happened
wired.com

Discovery reveals tractionless motion is possible
phys.org

The war documentary that never was
qz.com

Science Fiction’s Wonderful Mistakes
newrepublic.com

Video: How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it) [21:09]
youtube.com

Planetary confusion — why astronomers keep changing what it means to be a planet
theconversation.com

Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that gave them PTSD
theverge.com

When Product Placement Goes Wrong
daily.jstor.org

This Year’s Flu Season Is Off to a Weird (and Early) Start
wired.com

Meet a Bad Man Who Became a Truly Great Spy
lithub.com • (see also)

Wildfires have changed. It’s time the science did too.
technologyreview.com

On Mars, Auroras Glow All Summer Long in UV Light
livescience.com

Grave of high-ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich opened in Berlin
dw.com

Biggest ever Roman shipwreck found in the Mediterranean
edition.cnn.com

Mystery over ‘female’ remains found on male-only Greek mountain
theguardian.com

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves
laphamsquarterly.org

The ugly, gory, bloody secret life of NHL dentists
espn.com

A freshwater mussel apocalypse is underway—and no one knows why.
nationalgeographic.com

Tough nuts: why peanuts trigger such powerful allergic reactions
theconversation.com

Conscious Perception Of Vision Occurs Outside The Visual Cortex
sciencebeta.com

Doctors are turning to YouTube to learn how to do surgical procedures, but there’s no quality control
cnbc.com

‘We loved each other’: America’s first racially integrated all-girl swing band
theguardian.com

Italy: more than 50,000 evacuated in Brindisi after WW2 bomb found
theguardian.com

How Africa will be affected by climate change
bbc.com

Video: 2019 Illusion of the Year winner [1:12]
youtube.com

The Ocean Cleanup device has returned from the Pacific Garbage Patch with its first load of plastic
fastcompany.com

1930s-Era Murals Found Under Painted Hallways at SF Art Institute
nbcbayarea.com

Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World
nytimes.com

Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?
propublica.org

Peter Pan’s dark side emerges with release of original manuscript
theguardian.com

The dark world of online murder markets
harpers.org

The Tiny, Simple Nuclear Reactor That Could Change Energy
popularmechanics.com

Video: When a Mantis Shrimp Fights a Disco Clam, It Meets Its Match [10:09]
wired.com

How a White Lie Gave Japan KFC for Christmas
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He Was One of Mexico’s Deadliest Assassins. Then He Turned on His Cartel.
nytimes.com

WWII veterans remember Hitler’s ‘last gamble’
nationalgeographic.com

A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s 38 years
theconversation.com

W.E.B. Du Bois in Paris: The Exhibition That Shattered Myths About Black America
lithub.com

Water From South African Mine May Contain Life That Was Isolated for 2 Billion Years
insidescience.org • (see also)

OSIRIS-REx Team Will Boop This Spot on Asteroid Bennu
gizmodo.com

Antarctic video reveals deepest canyon on Earth
sciencemag.org

How Robotic Blacksmithing Could Change Manufacturing Forever
popularmechanics.com

NASA’s Juno probe just discovered a Texas-sized cyclone on Jupiter
astronomy.com