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Animated GIF: A nifty demonstration of the Dzhanibekov effect in microgravity.
i.imgur.com

A tale of lost confederate treasure, fugitives, and lawsuits.
thedailybeast.com

30 years ago this month (August 1985) was the worst month in history for commercial air disasters.
bbc.com

Short video: USAF Bioastronautics Research, ca. 1960s. Includes footage of cats in zero G.
youtube.com

The story of Thomas Silverstein, a prisoner who has been kept in solitary confinement since 1983.
peteearley.com

The story of how Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975, failed to see its potential, and thus bankrupted themselves.
brw.com.au

Nautilus Live: Livestreaming from underwater ROVs performing oceanic studies.
nautiluslive.org

Artist Alex Garant paints portraits that confound the human facial perception system.
alexgarant.com

India’s Mars Orbiter has sent home some beautiful new images.
isro.gov.in

Caltech astronomers have discovered a protogalaxy forming from cool primordial gas tracing back to the Big Bang.
cmarchesin.blogspot.co.uk

Sources of US petroleum: Common belief versus reality.
randalolson.com

Hi-res photos of the damage from the Tianjin disaster.
theatlantic.com

A letter from the City Manager of Trenton, NJ to the FCC, sent the day after the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast.
i.imgur.com

Photo: Nice new self-portrait from the Curiosity rover.
farm1.staticflickr.com

Photo: The Curiosity rover on Mars as seen by the orbiting MRO satellite (the blue area is an artifact of color enhancement).
static.uahirise.org

This week astronauts on the ISS will taste-test space-grown vegetables for the first time.
nasa.gov

Boontling: n. An unusual dialect of English used from about 1880-1920 in a relatively isolated Northern California town called Boonville.
theparisreview.org

Neat: New interactive map of Mars from NASA: Mars Trek.
marstrek.jpl.nasa.gov

MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together.
arstechnica.co.uk

Physicist proposes an experiment to quantum entangle two “massive” (0.1kg) objects.
dx.doi.org

Research: Fish in the family Mormyridae intercommunicate via electric discharges.
sciencedaily.com

These strange, slow-moving, deep-dwelling, mostly-blind sharks may be quite common.
bbc.com

Physicists have succeeded in producing stanene, a sheet of tin one atom thick with potentially remarkable properties.
nature.com

This 390-year-old bonsai tree survived an atomic bomb, and no one knew until 2001
washingtonpost.com

Study: Humans put more trust in people whose pupil size changes to mimic their own. Related: Pupils are sphincters.
psychologicalscience.org

30 years ago today a microburst caused Delta Flight 191 to crash short of the runway at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
metafilter.com

Image gallery: New red/blue anaglyph 3D photos of comet 67P/C-G.
esa.int

Photo: Aurora caused by a major coronal mass ejection, as seen from NASA’s Polar satellite in November 2004.
i.imgur.com

New Ebola Vaccine Has ‘100 Percent’ Effectiveness In Early Results
npr.org

Philae lander detects ‘building blocks of life’ on comet 67P/C-G.
news.sky.com

“World’s best whisky” is being sent to the ISS to be aged, to test how microgravity will affect the flavor.
theverge.com

Video: Beautiful time-lapse footage of storms by Mike Olbinski.
vimeo.com

How the African National Congress used early personal computer tech to send encrypted messages in the fight against apartheid.
mybroadband.co.za

Snowplows called in to clear bridge of bugs during extraordinary mayfly emergence.
wqad.com

Photo: New Horizons imaged Pluto from the far side, revealing the dwarf planet’s thin, sun-lit atmosphere of nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide.
nasa.gov

Rare photos of the Eastland disaster, 100 years ago today (some are graphic).
chicagotribune.com

Photos: The “Airplane Graveyard” in the Pacific, where surplus planes were dumped just after WW2.
argunners.com

A beautiful new photo of Ceres craters from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft
dawn.jpl.nasa.gov

NASA announcement: Kepler-452b is the first near-Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun.
nasa.gov

Researchers identify how the skin of the Texas horned lizard funnels water from the general environment into its mouth.
bbc.com

Animated GIF: Time-lapse of a meteor striking the atmosphere and vaporizing.
i.imgur.com

Researchers have found that a fungus is responsible for the unusual kind of ice formation known as “hair ice.”
egu.eu

NASA planning press conference tomorrow at 9am Pacific to announce new Kepler discovery.
ctvnews.ca

New study shows that a single-celled organism with components resembling an eye acquired them endosymbiotically from other organisms. This may provide insight into the evolution of the eye.
nature.com

Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life.
washingtonpost.com

Unexpected geologically young frozen plains detected in the heart of Pluto’s ‘heart.’
nasa.gov

Moderately interesting: Contrast in device preferences between Reddit users and Hacker News users.
i.imgur.com

Image: 360 degree animated 3D view of the icy mountains of Pluto.
i.imgur.com

Film, 1933: The first practical steam plane was so quiet “people on the ground could hear the pilot call to them from the air.”
youtube.com

Beautiful interactive: As you travel away from the Earth you can listen to the music which has been carried a corresponding distance by the propagation of radio transmissions.
lightyear.fm

New HD photo from New Horizons supports hypothesis that Pluto has water ice, “young” surface.
slate.com

Impartial third-party analysis of our recent kerfuffle.
plagiarismtoday.com

New photo of Comet 67P/C-G from 154km out.
blogs.esa.int

In a comment thread on reddit, Alan explains the effects of being on the business end of a front-page post in one of the largest subreddits (/r/todayilearned).
reddit.com

Large Hadron Collider discovers “pentaquark” particle that was predicted to exist in the 1960s.
bbc.com

Best image of Pluto yet, HD images expected in the coming hours/days.
bbc.com

An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.
newyorker.com

Photo: This canister is attached to the New Horizons spacecraft (via reddit.com/r/space).
i.imgur.com

Photo: Galaxy NGC 6744 has flocculent arms and an elongated core like the Milky Way. No other galaxy we know of more closely resembles our own.
en.wikipedia.org

Per Wikipedia, photos of Pluto from New Horizons will xfer at about 1 kbit/s, comparable to a mid-80s dial-up modem.
en.wikipedia.org