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100 years ago, Congress threw out results of the census
theconversation.com

Why rare beetles are being smuggled to Japan at an alarming rate
nationalgeographic.com

Do People Crave Foods Their Moms Ate During Pregnancy?
theatlantic.com

Fungi That ‘Eat’ Radiation Are Growing on the Walls of Chernobyl’s Ruined Nuclear Reactor
realclearscience.com

Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?
newyorker.com

Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other
phys.org

Astronomers Discover ‘Invisible’ Stars So Dim That We Can’t See Them at All
sciencealert.com

A Small-Rocket Maker Is Running a Different Kind of Space Race
bloomberg.com

Researchers Find ‘Anonymized’ Data Is Even Less Anonymous Than We Thought
vice.com

The Secret History of Lipstick
messynessychic.com

Nazi wives: the women beside Hess, Goebbels, Göring and Himmler
historyextra.com

Wild Gray Seals Clap Their Flippers Underwater to Communicate, New Research Suggests
gizmodo.com

Everything You Need To Know About Russia’s (Possibly Fictional) Super Heavy Rocket
popularmechanics.com

Inside Mexico’s war on drugs: Conversations with ‘el narco’
theconversation.com

The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman
lithub.com

The Eerie Repopulation of the Fukushima Exclusion Zone
wired.com

Coronavirus outbreak: Scientists explain 3 ways the epidemic could end
vox.com

A New Theory of Complex Emotions
thecut.com

For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until an unlikely hunter began digging.
magazine.atavist.com

The divers rescuing a drowning island
bbc.com • Sea also

‘All we can offer is the chain’: the scandal of Ghana’s shackled sick
theguardian.com

The fact-checker’s dilemma: Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
niemanlab.org

China Pledged to Build a New Hospital in 10 Days. It’s Close.
nytimes.com

The People of Las Vegas
believermag.com

This Arctic Explorer Was One Tent Pole Away from Death
outsideonline.com

The right music playlist makes your workouts more effective, study says
us.cnn.com

We Found Missing Links in Tomato Evolution
realclearscience.com

Fossilized Tooth Captures a Pterosaur’s Failed Squid Meal
nytimes.com

Airports for the Supersonic Age
airporthistory.org

The CIA’s Infamous, Unsolved Cryptographic Puzzle Gets a ‘Final Clue’
vice.com • (see also)

Image: Apollo 14 Heads for Home
apod.nasa.gov

Scientists Are Rapidly Finding Weird Materials Older Than the Solar System on Earth
vice.com

‘It was like a movie’: the high school students who uncovered a toxic waste scandal
theguardian.com • (see also)

Virus tricked into glowing reveals entryway to cellular victim
arstechnica.com

Image: Earth’s moon in 400 megapixels
easyzoom.com • More info

The Man Who Enabled the Holocaust
thedailybeast.com

The U.S. Army Is Testing a ‘Guaranteed Hit’ Smart Scope For Its Rifles
popularmechanics.com

Exactly How Dangerous Is Football?
newyorker.com

Puffins Seen Using Tools, Breaking Dumb-Puffin Stereotypes
daily.jstor.org

We’re Just Scratching the Surface of the Modern Environment’s Effect on Brain Health
lithub.com

An Ancient Australian Volcano Is a Haven for Giant Pink Slugs
atlasobscura.com

Image: Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
apod.nasa.gov

Toy Commercials Are Being Replaced by Something More Nefarious
theatlantic.com

Palindrome Day 20200202
blog.sumymus.de

Study: Sociable people have a higher abundance of certain types of gut bacteria and also more diverse bacteria
ox.ac.uk

Isaac Asimov’s Throwback Literary Legacy
theatlantic.com

100 years ago today researchers published the results of the infamous, disturbing ‘Little Albert’ experiment
damninteresting.com

Could Pablo Escobar’s escaped hippos help the environment?
nationalgeographic.com

‘Deaf’ genius Beethoven was able to hear his final symphony after all
theguardian.com

The Russian Conspiracy Theory That Won’t Die
theatlantic.com

On Saturn’s Moon Titan, Living Cells May Be Very Different From Ours
airspacemag.com

How did the last Neanderthals live?
bbc.com

Whatever Happened to ______ ?
longreads.com

Gallery: Interior Views of the Central Social Institution in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937
vintag.es

British Police Seek “Rightful Owner” of The One Ring
tor.com

9,008 days
m.chicagoreader.com

Dense stars spotted twisting and dragging the spacetime continuum
newatlas.com

On this day in 1953 an extraordinary storm struck the North Sea coasts of Britain and the Netherlands
damninteresting.com

Could Phoenix survive a water crisis?
thecounter.org

No Twin Mustang Has Ever Been Restored…Until Now
airspacemag.com