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Once Upon a Time in a Real “Westworld” Hoax Town
messynessychic.com

Video: The genes you don’t get from your parents (but can’t live without) [5:02]
youtube.com

Fatty Arbuckle and the Birth of the Celebrity Scandal
newyorker.com

The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history
theconversation.com • (see also)

Tiny worms ‘hear’ without an eardrum, surprising scientists
nationalgeographic.com

This ‘Extraordinary Gamma-Ray Burst’ Likely Came From Something Much Closer to Earth
sciencealert.com

NASA’s DART mission will deliberately crash into an asteroid’s moon
cnn.com

Yemen’s ancient, soaring skyscraper cities
bbc.com

Using theory and experiments, researchers show how apples get their shapes
phys.org

Video: Designing Lucy’s Path to the Trojan Asteroids [6:27]
youtube.com

Henrietta Lacks’s estate sues biotech firm over ‘stolen’ immortal cancer cells
cbc.ca • (see also)

18,000 years ago, late Pleistocene humans may have hatched and raised the “World’s Most Dangerous Bird.”
arkeonews.net

The 41 Mile Abandoned Tunnel Hiding in New York
messynessychic.com • (see also)

Video: How Apple Tried to Make the iPhone in 1993 [17:16]
youtube.com

Facebook “is tearing our societies apart,” whistleblower says in interview
arstechnica.com • (see also)

The Ship That Became a Bomb
newyorker.com

William Shatner Will Ride Jeff Bezos’s Rocket to Space
gizmodo.com

‘We wanted to make history’: Michael Jackson’s bizarre year in Bahrain
theguardian.com

Video: The Insane Engineering of the 787 [31:47]
youtube.com

Can You Hear the Northern Lights?
realclearscience.com • (see also)

The rise of ‘citizen sleuths’: the true crime buffs trying to solve cases
theguardian.com

Simulations suggest an Earth or Mars size planet may be lurking out beyond Neptune
phys.org

Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful
theguardian.com

Tylenol during mother’s pregnancy linked to ADHD and other developmental disorders in children
theconversation.com

Rogue Planets Could be Habitable
universetoday.com

Researchers Have Developed a New Kind of ‘Unbreakable’ Glass
interestingengineering.com

Hubble telescope spots celestial ‘eye,’ a galaxy with an incredibly active core
space.com

This Parasite Turns Plants Into Zombies
nytimes.com • (see also)

That stinky armpit smell? It’s not you, it’s your microbiome
massivesci.com

Why DARPA’s new hypersonic weapon could pack such a devastating punch
popsci.com

Bach to the future …. how the cello suites survived obscurity to capture the world
theguardian.com • (see also)

The Martians of Budapest
privatdozent.co

Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding
newatlas.com

Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters
theguardian.com

Special ops troops ‘hunkered down’ in California airport hangar after nighttime ninja attack
stripes.com

50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles’ record company
theconversation.com

Why Were These Mysterious Stone Orbs Stashed All Over Neolithic Britain?
atlasobscura.com

“Reverse vaccine” trains immune system not to attack beneficial drugs
newatlas.com

The boy behind the cruel nickname
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

BepiColombo’s first views of Mercury
esa.int

Everything We Know About Israel’s Robotic Machine Gun
popularmechanics.com

Video: How One Of The Last Fez Makers In Cairo Keeps A 600-Year-Old Tradition Alive [7:24]
youtube.com

Doctors in Lithuania find kilo of nails and screws in man’s stomach
theguardian.com

X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s letters to Swedish count
arstechnica.com

A prolific art forger meets his match in an intrepid FBI investigator, but the con is only just beginning.
medium.com

This week: 🏴‍☠️ Pirate scientists, 🖼️ hiding the Mona Lisa, 🪦 corpse care on Mars, and more!
damninteresting.com

What Will the Future of the Internet Look Like?
popularmechanics.com

Largest Underwater Eruption Ever Recorded Gives Birth to Massive New Volcano
sciencealert.com

Merck’s antiviral pill reduces hospitalization of Covid patients, a possible game-changer for treatment
statnews.com

‘I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it’
inputmag.com

Grigory Perelman, the maths genius who said no to $1m
theguardian.com

Photos: Lava Reaches the Sea on La Palma
theatlantic.com

A world first: Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane
noaa.gov

Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast
theconversation.com

How Science Conquered Diphtheria, the Plague Among Children
smithsonianmag.com

Remarkable Trees Throughout The World
mossandfog.com • (see also)

French Cop Leaves Suicide Note Unmasking Himself as Notorious ‘Grele’ Serial Killer
thedailybeast.com • (see also)

Some Paleontologists Think They’ve Found Fossilized Dinosaur DNA. Others Aren’t So Sure
gizmodo.com

Remembering a Daring Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
atlasobscura.com • (see also)

Radiation to the heart corrects arrhythmia by reactivating younger state
newatlas.com