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Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers
lithub.com

Why Do We Listen to Sad Music?
daily.jstor.org

Dozens of Fossilized Neanderthal Footprints Found on a Beach in Spain
gizmodo.com

Archaeology in the Ashes of Notre Dame
sapiens.org

Video: Why Did the Mexican Jumping Bean Jump? [4:15]
youtube.com

The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations
quantamagazine.org

What You Need to Know About FLoC, the Ad-Targeting Tech Google Plans to Drop on Us All
gizmodo.com

Video: FRONTLINE: The Madoff Affair (full documentary) [54:18]
youtube.com

NASA Engineers ‘Nervous’ and ‘Excited’ as Mars Helicopter Prepares to Fly
vice.com

The genius behind early Russian space tech
bbc.com

Experience: ‘I’ve had the same supper for 10 years’
theguardian.com

Winners of the 2021 World Press Photo Contest
theatlantic.com

Some lucid dreamers can answer questions and math problems in their sleep
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Astronomers detect new frequencies from mysterious fast radio bursts
newatlas.com

What Octopus Dreams Tell Us About the Evolution of Sleep
wired.com

NASA spacecraft leaves mess after grabbing asteroid samples
phys.org

‘A poor man’s rainforest’: why we need to stop treating soil like dirt
theguardian.com

‘Whitest ever’ paint reflects 98% of sunlight
bbc.com

Tusk-free ivory substitute can be 3D printed into complex shapes
newatlas.com

It’s still unclear what dark matter is, but now we know what it isn’t
academictimes.com

Video: Why are airplanes slower than they used to be? [4:58]
youtube.com

Lego’s bricks for blind people – in pictures
theguardian.com

Psilocybin: Magic mushroom compound ‘promising’ for depression
bbc.com

A Cautionary Tale for Nearly Everyone
nytimes.com

A Kidnapping Gone Very Wrong
theatlantic.com

NASA’s astronaut Earth photography contest crowns a glorious winner
cnet.com

The Humble Shrub That’s Predicting a Terrible Fire Season
wired.com

Embryos That Are Part Monkey, Part Human Raise Ethical Concerns
npr.org

An enigmatic Javanese manuscript in the British Library: Sĕrat Jaya Lĕngkara, Add 12310
blogs.bl.uk • (see also)

‘I Was the Man at the Clapperboard for Orson Welles’ Legendary Drunk Wine Commercial’
melmagazine.com

Unsold Television Pilots: Really Expensive Failures
tedium.co

How the fall of the Roman empire paved the road to modernity
aeon.co

The Great Cottonmouth-Catching Get-Rich-Quick Scheme of 1956
narratively.com

He Was Convicted of a Bombing Plot. Was It a Setup?
nytimes.com

New curio by Alan Bellows: Pushing the Envelope
dam.mn

Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky
theguardian.com

How free trials trick you into thinking you’ll get something for nothing
vox.com

Here’s how the FBI managed to get into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone
theverge.com

Scientists tunnel back over 4,000 years in time – through bat guano
newatlas.com

The genetic mistakes that could shape our species
bbc.com

These stars could have a sort of atomic bomb at their center
academictimes.com

See the Fractal-Like Shells of Ammonites Like Never Before
gizmodo.com

Why Two Rivers Meet But Don’t Mix in the Canadian Arctic
atlasobscura.com

This pterosaur supported its giant neck with bones built like bicycle wheels
sciencemag.org

The US’ lost, ancient megacity
bbc.com

Video: Journey to the Center of a Neutron Star [5:56]
youtube.com

Want to Be Ant Royalty? Prepare to Lose Part of Your Brain.
theatlantic.com

Darius, ‘World’s Longest Rabbit,’ Is Missing
nytimes.com

How Radio Astronomy Reveals the Universe
quantamagazine.org

MIT Researchers Release Music Made by Spiders
futurism.com

This B.C. singer just set a new world record for the lowest note sung by a woman
cbc.ca

Video: Whatever happened to acid rain? [5:39]
youtube.com

Doctors Forgot to Warn People With Breasts That the Covid Vaccine Could Affect Their Next Mammogram
jezebel.com

These are the health effects of tear gas
massivesci.com

These Microscopic Maps of 3D-Printed Metals Look Like Art. They May Be a Glimpse of the Future
gizmodo.com

First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released In the Florida Keys
undark.org

Mathematician Disproves 80-Year-Old Algebra Conjecture
quantamagazine.org

The Spacewalk From Hell
airspacemag.com

Video: Earthrise in 4k UHD [11:12]
youtube.com

Yuri Gagarin: the spaceman who came in from the cold
bbc.com