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The Banality of Apocalypse: Escaping the Australian Fires
theintercept.com

Mystery of Rolling Stones tracks posted briefly on YouTube
theguardian.com

The Canadian Arctic Once Probably Looked a Lot Like Present-Day Florida
atlasobscura.com

Gallery: Curiosity Mars Rover: Stunning Views
leonarddavid.com

Fax on the beach: The story of the audacious, totally calamitous iPad of the ’90s
inputmag.com

No, We Still Can’t Use Quantum Entanglement To Communicate Faster Than Light
forbes.com

Of Grids and the Great Chicago Fire
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu • (see also)

Is the airborne commute a flight of fancy?
bbc.com

The inevitable rise of the hologram rock concert
expmag.com

Alien life is out there, but our theories are probably steering us away from it
theconversation.com

This particle accelerator fits on the head of a pin
techcrunch.com

Unscrambled Eggs: Self-Organization Restores Cells’ Order
quantamagazine.org

Where Do Finger Names Come From?
daily.jstor.org

Color-changing fibers help reveal mysteries of how knots work
sciencenews.org

Neuroscientists Discover New Kind of Signal in the Human Brain
gizmodo.com

America’s love affair with the single-family house is cooling, but it won’t be a quick breakup
theconversation.com

The Great Animation Strike
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

How YouTube Gives Us Love Without the Messiness
thewalrus.ca

What Do Birds Do in a Hurricane?
hakaimagazine.com

‘It’s Creepy’: Unexplained Drones Are Swarming by Night Over Colorado
nytimes.com

Texas woman shot on New Year’s Day by suspected ‘celebratory gunfire’
insider.com

Tumbleweed invasion traps cars and truck on US highway – video
theguardian.com

It’s 2020 and you’re in the future
waitbutwhy.com

Ravenous wild goats ruled this island for over a century. Now, it’s being reborn.
nationalgeographic.com

Pararescue – The Special Ops Unit That Rescues Navy SEALS
esquire.com

How Long Has It Been Since We Saw A Supernova?
forbes.com

In 1920, Prohibition went into effect, but America partied on.
nytimes.com

Is Notre-Dame Too Fragile to Be Saved?
smithsonianmag.com

Gallery: Photos of Australia’s Raging Bushfires
theatlantic.com

‘Shattered’: Inside the secret battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age
news.yahoo.com

The mosque siege that changed the course of Saudi history
bbc.com

The Millennium Bug Was Not a Hoax
realclearscience.com

Sugar Sweet: the pilled-up rave that united Belfast during the Troubles
theguardian.com

Headless torso found in Idaho cave identified as outlaw who escaped jail in 1916 [autoplay video]
cbsnews.com

How Canada’s military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing on its bases
cbc.ca

The Violent Saga of Mexican Cartels at War to Control Limes and Avocados
melmagazine.com

The Edible History of Confetti
atlasobscura.com

How Long Is Right Now?
vice.com

Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene Into a Monkey. Other Scientists are Concerned.
discovermagazine.com

How VR is letting palliative patients ‘complete their bucket list’
cbc.ca

It’s 50 Below. The Past Is a Horror Show. You’d Dream of Escaping Too.
nytimes.com

Was Norway’s Oseberg Ship a Tomb for a Viking Queen?
nationalgeographic.com

The Unpredictable Cactus
lrb.co.uk

The Survival Advantage of Being a Fancy Baby Coot
theatlantic.com

The Four-Inch Flight – A Lesson from History
rs-online.com

Some Rich Parents Are Giving Their Kids HGH to Make Them Taller
realclearscience.com

When Russia and America Coöperated to Avert a Y2K Apocalypse
newyorker.com

‘You have utterly no clue’: why ‘climate emergency’ is Australia’s ultimate outrage trigger
theguardian.com

‘A Slow-Motion Chernobyl’: How Lax Laws Turned a River Into a Disaster
nytimes.com • (see also)

A Photographic Tour of Abandoned Cold War Sites
smithsonianmag.com

Elizabeth Rona, the wandering polonium woman, changed radiation science forever
massivesci.com

How the Entertainment Industry Solved Piracy, Then Made It Popular Again
vice.com

The global soda tax experiment
arstechnica.com • (see also)

Internet Deception Is Here to Stay—So What Do We Do Now?
wired.com

The Invention of the Archive
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

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Chinese scientists jailed over ‘world’s first gene-edited babies’
news.sky.com

Hunting the missing millions from collapsed cryptocurrency
bbc.com

Sydney New Year′s Eve fireworks to go ahead despite wildfires
dw.com

Moscow brings in artificial snow amid mild winter
bbc.com