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The Eye of Providence: The symbol with a secret meaning?
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Meet the guardians of the world’s earliest musical recordings
latimes.com

Shiny new episode of Damn Interesting Week: Sausagemakers
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Video: The Forgotten Number System [10:20]
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Sexual Attraction Is the Oldest Story on Earth
theatlantic.com

Why did NASA retire the Space Shuttle?
astronomy.com

Stonehenge was part of a multi-monument complex. Here’s how it fit together
nationalgeographic.com

The theremin: The strangest instrument ever invented?
bbc.com

Bluer blues and blacker blacks? How science is enhancing colors
nationalgeographic.com

Winners of Close-Up Photographer of the Year
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The People Whose Minds Are Completely Blank
realclearscience.com

Quantum Computing: A Bubble Ready to Burst?
pcmag.com

The Exploding Whale remastered: 50th anniversary of legendary Oregon event
katu.com

Get the Lead Out
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Behold The ‘Potato Head’ Of Palencia, Another Botched Art Restoration In Spain
npr.org

72 years before George Floyd, this police killing sparked national protests
expmag.com

Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction From Moments After the Big Bang
quantamagazine.org

The Distinguished Medieval Penis Investigators
narratively.com

How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics
theguardian.com

The Curse of the Buried Treasure
newyorker.com

The Entire History of the Autopsy
popularmechanics.com

Japan Is Using a Robotic ‘Monster Wolf’ to Scare Bears Away From People’s Houses
vice.com

This ‘Telewriter’ Transmitted Handwriting Across Long Distances in the 1930s
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This Bacterium Survived on The Outside of The Space Station For a Whole Damn Year
sciencealert.com

Discover the secrets of London’s oldest Roman road
nationalgeographic.com

Two-million-year-old skull of human ‘cousin’ unearthed
bbc.com

The Occult History Behind NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
supercluster.com

The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations
wired.com

Radioactive elements may be crucial to the habitability of rocky planets
phys.org

Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right
bbc.com

Video: AlphaGo – The first AI to seriously challenge human Go champions [1:30:27]
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When Objects Become Extensions of You
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Scientists Have Discovered an Ancient Lake Bed Deep Beneath the Greenland Ice
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Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography
quantamagazine.org

Why Didn’t the Soviets Ever Make It to the Moon?
popularmechanics.com

Microbes Can Mine Valuable Elements From Rocks in Space
gizmodo.com

Video: How Large Can a Bacteria get? [11:04]
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Pigeon message found over a century after sent by German soldier
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In Russia’s far north, legends and lives are frozen in time
nationalgeographic.com

Investigating an ancient mystery: What really happened during Nero’s Great Fire of Rome?
independent.co.uk

Radio telescope detects a super-planet for the first time
newatlas.com

Behind Pfizer’s vaccine, an understated husband-and-wife “dream team”
reuters.com

Inside the Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki
quantamagazine.org

The Greatest Army Cover-Up of WWII Was a Marvel of Engineering
popularmechanics.com

One of Jupiter’s icy moons may glow in the dark
nationalgeographic.com

Did the Great Wall of China Actually Keep Invaders Out?
discovermagazine.com

Chris Nikic becomes first person with Down’s syndrome to finish an Ironman triathlon
bbc.com

The Genome of Your Pet Fish Is Extremely Weird
wired.com

What if Earth shared its orbit with another planet?
livescience.com

On vaccines, evolution, and more, rejection of science has followed a familiar pattern
scientificamerican.com

What Makes Sand Soft?
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New curio by Alan Bellows: The Unknown Father
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A Second Cable Fails at NSF’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico
ucf.edu

Covid-19 vaccine candidate is 90% effective, says Pfizer
theguardian.com

On this day in ’73, workers removed the remains of an extraordinary tree: The Lonely Tree of Ténéré
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‘It was crazy,’ says California kayaker who was engulfed in a whale’s mouth
cbc.ca

Meet an Intrepid Texan Who Spends Winters at the South Pole
texasmonthly.com

On this day in 1939 a German handyman (and/or time traveller) almost succeeded in assassinating Hitler
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A game letting players undermine democracy can reduce users’ susceptibility to political misinformation
cam.ac.uk • LInk to game