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Coming soon to a podcast feed near you: The Damn Interesting Curio Cabinet
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Video: Impaled droplets: On the breakup of drops impacting singularities [2:51]
youtube.com

Gallery: Photos from inside the Large Hadron Collider
instituteartist.com

The Radical Plan to Save the Fastest Sinking City in the World
gen.medium.com

An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence
quantamagazine.org

When a several-hundred-metre-high tsunami hit Northern Norway
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The CIA’s Dark History of Employing Former Nazis in Postwar Europe
crimereads.com

How a Russian Rocket Launch Failed Spectacularly In Just 118 Seconds
popularmechanics.com

The Mystery of the Missing Portrait of Robert Hooke
atlasobscura.com

Are aliens hiding in plain sight?
theguardian.com

New Species In The Same Group As Lobsters Found Living In The Hottest Place On Earth
science20.com

Researchers recycle wool into smart textile that remembers its shape
newatlas.com

Creepy ‘Geofence’ Finds Anyone Who Went Near a Crime Scene
wired.com

Can life exist around a black hole?
sciencefocus.com

The Long History of Comet Phobia
daily.jstor.org

The grim truth behind the Pied Piper
bbc.com

Mapping a wildfire’s next move is getting easier, thanks to computers
cnet.com

How To Hide A Billion Dollars: Techniques The Ultra-Rich Use To Dodge Ex-Spouses, The Taxman And Disgruntled Business Partners
forbes.com

What does Titan smell like?
astronomy.com

Floating a boat on the underside of a liquid
phys.org

Could a Tree Help Find a Decaying Corpse Nearby?
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All-new episode of Damn Interesting Week: Human Soup
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An Ancient Site with Human Skulls on Display
nautil.us

How Prison Officials Block Access to the Media
prospect.org

Does this river hold the key to life on Mars?
bbc.com

Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation
aeon.co

New article/episode by Jennifer Lee Noonan: Dupes and Duplicity
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This could be the first known planet in the universe to orbit three suns at once
livescience.com

Source of International Space Station leak still not found, NASA says
businessinsider.com

How Lenin’s Red Terror set a macabre course for the Soviet Union
nationalgeographic.com

The companies that help people vanish
bbc.com

Kilwa, the abandoned East African city, once controlled the medieval gold trade
nationalgeographic.com

Amezaiku: The Nearly Lost Japanese Art of Candy Sculpture
mentalfloss.com

‘How We Saved Our Neighborhood from a Wildfire’
outsideonline.com

Only one in ten medical treatments are backed by high-quality evidence
theconversation.com

Gravity, Gizmos, and a Grand Theory of Interstellar Travel
wired.com

The Neurons That Appeared from Nowhere
nautil.us

The Little Cards That Tell Police ‘Let’s Forget This Ever Happened’
vice.com

Why people object to laws that save lives
bbc.com

The Earthquake That Brought Enlightenment
hakaimagazine.com

Operation Condor: the illegal state network that terrorised South America
theguardian.com

The Moon Is Rusting, and Researchers Want to Know Why
jpl.nasa.gov

The Paralyzed World War II Veterans Who Invented Wheelchair Basketball
smithsonianmag.com

Medieval pandemics spawned fears of the undead, burials reveal
nationalgeographic.com

Yeast could soon make psilocybin cheaper than their magic mushroom cousins can
massivesci.com

The 4 Lessons Every (Good) Scientist Must Learn
forbes.com

The Landlord’s Game: Eula Biss on the Anticapitalist Origins of Monopoly
lithub.com

How Disaster Shaped the Modern City
theatlantic.com

Astronomers spot a super-rare class of black hole for the first time
engadget.com

Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea
bbc.com

The largest geomagnetic storm in recorded history occurred on this day in 1859
damninteresting.com

How big is a neutron star?
symmetrymagazine.org

Video: Mars’s Surface Is Messed Up [5:37]
youtube.com

Heart of Belgian city mayor found entombed in fountain
bbc.com

Video: 1111111111111111111111111111111 & Unix Epoch [7:32]
youtube.com

What Do George Clooney, Nazareth, and a 16-Foot Mechanical Bear Have in Common?
theringer.com

Bronze Age musical instruments made from human bone
sciencefocus.com

When Tuberculosis Struck the World, Schools Went Outside
smithsonianmag.com

How did human butts evolve to look that way?
massivesci.com

Face Selectivity in the Blind Brain
discovermagazine.com