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Just How Dark Were the Dark Ages?
discovermagazine.com • (see also)

Video: The Most Expensive Lego Brick [3:35]
youtube.com

The Doctor Will See You Once You Sign This Binding Arbitration Agreement
bloomberg.com

How U.S. POWs Used Playing Cards as an Escape Map in WWII
popularmechanics.com

Is nuclear fusion the answer to the climate crisis?
theguardian.com

Does lightning strike on Venus? Mysterious flash may help solve puzzle.
nationalgeographic.com • (see also)

The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real
mcgill.ca • (see also)

Scientists Have Found Some Truly Ancient Ice, But Now They Want Ice That’s Even Older
npr.org

Astrophysicists Discover Unfathomably Large Intergalactic Gas Filament
scitechdaily.com

New article/episode by Morgan W.R. Dunn: Pugilism on the Plains
dam.mn

Video: WorkBoy: Lost Game Boy Add-on FOUND After 28 Years [27:28]
youtube.com

How Scientists Tried to Find a Universal Flu Vaccine
daily.jstor.org

Exceptionally well-preserved snack bar unearthed in Pompeii
theguardian.com

Rome’s Colosseum Is Getting a Retractable Floor to Host Performances, Just Like in Ancient Times (Without the Gladiators)
news.artnet.com

Rotating Sails Help to Revive Wind-Powered Shipping
scientificamerican.com

Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe
apod.nasa.gov

A Scary Amount of Nutrition Science Has Deep Ties to The Food Industry, Study Reveals
sciencealert.com

The Mystery of Deceased Hiker ‘Mostly Harmless’ Is At Long Last Solved
adventure-journal.com

On this day in 1936 the keel was laid for the Graf Zeppelin, Nazi Germany’s only aircraft carrier
damninteresting.com

Stamp Collecting as Metaphor for the Free Market
daily.jstor.org • (see also)

The Forgotten Life of Einstein’s First Wife
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Video: How Telephone Phreaking Worked [29:16]
youtube.com

Mysterious asteroid the size of a dwarf planet is lurking in our solar system
livescience.com

The family with no fingerprints
bbc.com

Here’s how Vikings celebrated Christmas
sciencenorway.no

Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing
nautil.us

Invaders nearly wiped out Caribbean’s first people long before Spanish came, DNA reveals
nationalgeographic.com

Video: Master of Disguise – Caterpillar Mimicking a Tarantula Spider [1:54]
youtube.com

What can we learn from the lunar pandemic that never was?
aeon.co

The Saga of the Monolith Isn’t Over Yet
outsideonline.com

A good vintage: science suggests appreciation of wine grows with age
theguardian.com

Three cheers to our own Jennifer Lee Noonan whose Damn Interesting article ‘Dupes and Duplicity’ was honored with a New York Times 2020 Sidney award!
nytimes.com • Original article

Happy fictional merged nebulae holiday!
damninteresting.com

The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times
nationalgeographic.com • (see also)

Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million degrees
phys.org

Elon Musk Will Run Into Trouble Setting up a Martian Government, Lawyers Say
futurism.com

Frankenfish or food of the future? The risks and rewards of Canada’s genetically engineered salmon
thenarwhal.ca

Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures
bbc.com

A Martian Roundtrip: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sample Tubes
nasa.gov

Young Ravens Rival Adult Chimps in a Big Test of General Intelligence
scientificamerican.com

How Claude Shannon Invented the Future
quantamagazine.org

The ‘Batman Effect’: How having an alter ego empowers you
bbc.com

Are Old Vaccines Helpful Against COVID-19?
medpagetoday.com

Why a Canadian believes 2 treasures buried 40 years ago are in St. John’s and Halifax
cbc.ca • (see also)

Christmas Wasn’t Always the Kid-Friendly Gift Extravaganza We Know Today
smithsonianmag.com

The daring plan to save the Arctic ice with glass
bbc.com

Chernobyl fears resurface as river dredging begins in exclusion zone
theguardian.com

Lonely Pair of Mystifying Space Objects Found Traversing the Void
insidescience.org

‘The Secret History of the First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me’
wired.com

Neutron stars scanned for signals of dark matter turning into light
newatlas.com

NASA drops thrilling Mars mission trailer for Perseverance rover landing
cnet.com

Seals are making ‘Star Wars’ noises at each other underwater, and we have no idea why
livescience.com

A new iron-based catalyst converts carbon dioxide into jet fuel
sciencenews.org

Researchers find hydrogen-supported life beneath glaciers
phys.org • (see also)

Musical hips: Doctors literally hear music while checking a patient’s pulse
zmescience.com

How the Maya Created Their Extraordinarily Accurate Calendar Thousands of Years Ago
discovermagazine.com

Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts?
nytimes.com

Mass Extraction: The Widespread Power of U.S. Law Enforcement to Search Mobile Phones
upturn.org

The Wonders of Astronomy: The Cutting Edge Space Telescope…of 1939
popularmechanics.com

A Transient at Proxima Centauri? “this one does raise the eyebrows”
centauri-dreams.org