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Video: Did the CIA Actually Sell Crack in the 1980s? [11:26]
youtube.com

Secret FBI Watchlist Leaks Online, and Boy Do the Feds Think a Lot of People Are Terrorists
gizmodo.com

Non-hormonal contraceptive supercharges antibodies against sperm
newatlas.com

How Do New Organs Evolve? A Beetle Gland Shows the Way.
quantamagazine.org

The 36-Pound Comic Scrapbook That Chronicles the Great Depression
atlasobscura.com

Video: Surfside Condo Collapse: What We Know So Far [14:18]
youtube.com

‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online
news.yale.edu

Video: The small Italian village that can’t be reached by car [09:40]
bbc.com

A Well Fixer’s Story of the California Drought
theatlantic.com

Space junk collision: Chinese satellite got whacked by hunk of Russian rocket in March
space.com

What If You Could Become Invisible to Mosquitoes?
nytimes.com

The longest living animals on Earth
livescience.com

Saturn’s core is a big, diffuse, rocky slushball
arstechnica.com

New poo, new you? Fecal transplants reverse signs of brain aging in mice
sciencemag.org

Weird, noodle-like amphibian discovered in U.S. for the first time
studyfinds.org

Swiss researchers calculate pi to new record of 62.8tn figures
theguardian.com

How Extortion Scams and Review Bombing Trolls Turned Goodreads Into Many Authors’ Worst Nightmare
time.com

Micro marvels: Levon Biss captures seeds close up – in pictures
theguardian.com

‘Freezer burn’ is a serious problem – preventing ice recrystallization may alleviate it
theconversation.com

Why a theory of everything may never be possible – or any use
sciencefocus.com

Do Animals Commit Suicide?
discovermagazine.com

The Five Big Ways the James Webb Telescope Will Help Astronomers Understand the Universe
smithsonianmag.com

Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life, Explained
discovermagazine.com

‘Why Don’t Black Holes Swallow All of Space? This Explanation Is Blowing Our Minds’
sciencealert.com

How a volcano and flaming red sunsets led an amateur scientist in Hawaii to discover jet streams
theconversation.com

Trove of Nazi Artifacts Found Stashed in Wall of German House
smithsonianmag.com

An immense mystery older than Stonehenge
bbc.com

Give Fungi the Respect They’re Due
theatlantic.com

Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational?
newyorker.com

Interoception: the hidden sense that shapes wellbeing
theguardian.com • (see also)

‘Mind blowing’: Grizzly bear DNA maps onto Indigenous language families
sciencemag.org

Video: Why did NASA Pour Dirt on their Mars Lander? [13:56]
youtube.com

On this day in 1977, SETI detected the famous, still unexplained “Wow!” signal
damninteresting.com

Twists, turns, thrills and spills: the physics of rollercoasters
physicsworld.com

Photos: A Horrific Earthquake in Haiti
theatlantic.com

What Will Become of the ISS if Russia Abandons Plans?
interestingengineering.com

The Rooms Where It Happened
wilsonquarterly.com

Every rover, ranked by distance traveled on the moon and Mars
mashable.com

The secret language of cults
bbc.co.uk

How a simple crystal could help pave the way to full-scale quantum computing
theconversation.com

NASA Sends a 3D Printer for Lunar Regolith and More to the ISS
universetoday.com

Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public
theguardian.com

On this day in 1984, 37 people died when a lake exploded in Cameroon
damninteresting.com

Could Dark Energy Simply Be A Misinterpretation Of The Data?
forbes.com

Tackling the growing problem of overmedication
knowablemagazine.org

Russia’s space program just threw a NASA astronaut under the bus
arstechnica.com

He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?
washingtonpost.com

A Madonna Who Shows the Beauty in Going Overboard
nytimes.com

‘Saddam Hussein’s spies in London laid a trap – and sent my son Farzad to his death’
theguardian.com

Beneath a country town, searching for the foundations of the universe
smh.com.au

Why NASA is only a little worried about Bennu asteroid hitting Earth
deseret.com

49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday
livescience.com

1897: The Great Sea Lion Escape From Glen Island on the Long Island Sound
hatchingcatnyc.com

‘Facebook is obstructing our work on disinformation. Other researchers could be next’
theguardian.com

July 2021 Was Hottest Month in Recorded History
gizmodo.com

The Harvard Computers – The Forgotten Female Scientists Who Mapped Space
flashbak.com

This Is Why Quantum Mechanics Isn’t Enough To Explain The Universe
forbes.com

Case of the mystery sea snakes: why are reptiles washing up on New Zealand’s shores?
theguardian.com

50 years ago today psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo began a famous, problematic prison experiment
damninteresting.com

This week: 🧠 Thinking slime molds, 🏢 mistaken institutionalization, 🕷️ interstellar spider hallucinations, and more!
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