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The silphium (aka laserwort) seed may be the origin of the Valentine’s day “heart” shape
damninteresting.com

How Racist Cartoons Helped Ignite a Massacre
daily.jstor.org

When Scientists Become Allergic To Their Research
undark.org

World’s oldest known beer factory may have been unearthed in Egypt
theguardian.com

Miniature Satellites Reveal Cause of Deadly Uttarakhand Flood That Devastated Hydroelectric Dams
scientificamerican.com

White dwarfs wear the crushed corpses of planets in their atmospheres
livescience.com

How Early Megacities Emerged From the Jungles of Cambodia
atlasobscura.com

NASA’s TESS Discovers New Worlds in a River of Young Stars
nasa.gov

TikTok Stars and Social Media Creators Can Now Join Hollywood’s Top Union
nytimes.com

Listen: Robinhood’s Very Bad Day
npr.org

Intestinal roundworm cells eat their own DNA as part of a healthy lifecycle
massivesci.com

Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels
nautil.us

This Heavily Armed and Armored Truck Protected Canada’s WWII Nuclear Secret
thedrive.com • (see also)

The human virome: The trillions of viruses keeping you alive
sciencefocus.com

Are Humans Wired to Be Seduced By the Color Red?
discovermagazine.com

Remembering the B-70: The Weird Supersonic Bomber That Never Was
popularmechanics.com

Hubble Uncovers Concentration of Small Black Holes
hubblesite.org

In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one can find her
polygon.com

Researchers Levitated a Small Tray Using Nothing but Light
wired.com

Earth to Voyager 2: After a Year in the Darkness, We Can Talk to You Again
nytimes.com • (see also)

Surprisingly mature galaxy in the infant universe suggests galaxies form faster than we thought
space.com

‘Swirlonic’ super particles baffle physicists
phys.org

This week: Chucky alert, Hitler’s toilet, isolating Einsteinium, and more
damninteresting.com

What a 16th-century plague survival guide has in common with COVID-19 advice
cbc.ca

The Amazing Story of Phil Moore, Hollywood Star Maker
daily.jstor.org

Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales
theguardian.com

The Long Hack: How China Exploited a U.S. Tech Supplier
bloomberg.com • (see also)

How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers
lithub.com

Shell Says It Has Reached Peak Oil Production
earther.gizmodo.com

When Healers Do Harm: Women Serial Killers in the Health Care Industry
thewalrus.ca

PSA: DamnInteresting.com will be down for a server upgrade today beginning at 11am Pacific time
damninteresting.com

Are we losing the rat race? How rodents took over our offices
theguardian.com

Astronomers Just Confirmed The Most Distant Known Object in The Solar System
sciencealert.com

All the coronavirus in the world could fit inside a Coke can, with plenty of room to spare
theconversation.com

In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’
quantamagazine.org

The Bizarre Tale of a Wisconsin Woman Who Tried to Hire a Hitman With Bitcoin
vice.com

Pigs can be trained to use computer joysticks, say researchers
theguardian.com

Machines Are Inventing New Math We’ve Never Seen
vice.com

How to bring a language to the future
restofworld.org

We now have new evidence that Richard III murdered the princes in the tower
arstechnica.com

China Swears It Isn’t Building a Time Machine
popularmechanics.com

Conch shell in French museum found to be 17,000-year-old wind instrument
theguardian.com

Bitcoin consumes ‘more electricity than Argentina’
bbc.com

After you get a COVID-19 vaccine, what can you do safely?
nationalgeographic.com

The Invention of the Ski Chairlift
smithsonianmag.com

Astronomers’ hopes raised by glimpse of possible new planet
theguardian.com

Plasma Thruster Could Dramatically Cut Down Flight Times to the Outer Solar System
universetoday.com

Ham Radio Forms a Planet-Sized Space Weather Sensor Network
eos.org • (see also)

This Hydrogen Goop Could One Day Power Scooters and Motorcycles
gizmodo.com

Getting Ink: The Entire History of Tattooing
popularmechanics.com

Snatched from a beach to train North Korea’s spies
bbc.com

Undergraduates Hunt for Special Tetrahedra That Fit Together
quantamagazine.org

Why a shootout between Black Panthers and law enforcement 50 years ago matters today
theconversation.com

Some Scientists Believe All Life Started on Mars
popularmechanics.com

Evidence of an impending breakup may exist in everyday conversation
theconversation.com

Dark energy instrument snaps breathtaking image of galactic neighbor
newatlas.com

In the 1970s, Email Was Special
gizmodo.com

Why Rhinos Fly Upside Down Over Namibia
atlasobscura.com

A Hacker Tried to Poison a Florida City’s Water Supply, Officials Say
wired.com

Fossil fuel air pollution causes almost 1 in 5 deaths globally each year
cnn.com • (see also)