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Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes
quantamagazine.org

This Siberian Subway System Has Just One, Non-Functional Station
atlasobscura.com

Boeing is about to launch its Starliner crew spacecraft for the first time
technologyreview.com

China’s Trackless Trains
amusingplanet.com

Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
nytimes.com

NASA Will Be Building a Quiet, Supersonic Aircraft: the X-59
universetoday.com

How to Discover a Galaxy with a Telephoto Lens
nautil.us

Sorry for the delay today, our human link curator is rather under the weather
damninteresting.com

How Disney’s ‘Community of Tomorrow’ Became a Nightmare
thedailybeast.com

How Crisco toppled lard – and made Americans believers in industrial food
theconversation.com

Döllersheim: The Village That Hitler Destroyed to Crush a Rumor
amusingplanet.com

Three species of early humans lived in same era in close proximity
smh.com.au

Moscow has registered the warmest December weather in over a century
rte.ie

Liftoff for Cheops, ESA’s exoplanet mission
esa.int

Investors Want to Exhume Body of Crypto-CEO Who Had the Password to Millions In Bitcoin
gizmodo.com

Researchers Explore A Drug-Free Idea To Relieve Chronic Pain: Green Light
npr.org

Earth has had more major mass extinctions than we realized
nationalgeographic.com

Deep-Sea Mining and the Race to the Bottom of the Ocean
theatlantic.com

Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Moved (Toward Russia)
forbes.com

‘What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out.’
washingtonpost.com

Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis [in worms]
nautil.us

A Brief History of Tiny Nuclear Reactors
popularmechanics.com

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Greek Royal Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years
npr.org

Researchers create functional mini-liver by 3D bioprinting
agencia.fapesp.br

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of pain
nationalgeographic.com • (see also)

How police got the Canadian behind the world’s biggest child porn site
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

Soldier of (Mis)fortune
crimereads.com

The Volatile Economics of Natural Vanilla in Madagascar
bloomberg.com

Why killer whales—and humans—evolved menopause
arstechnica.com

Feeling sick is an emotion meant to help you get better faster
theconversation.com

The Largest Scientific Structure Ever Powers Up in Africa
wired.com

Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?
lithub.com

A Sea Lily Fossil in Utah Just Solved an Evolutionary Mystery
atlasobscura.com

Kids don’t trust the internet to give the right answer
cbc.ca

Asthma severity linked to microbiome of upper airway
sciencedaily.com

The little-known US-Canada border war
bbc.com • (see also)

DNA from Stone Age ‘chewing gum’ tells an incredible story
nationalgeographic.com

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