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24 February 2016

Culture shapes how leaders smile, Stanford research shows

news.stanford.edu

23 February 2016

Audio: Space Jam: Four astronomers discussing interesting things about outer space.

abc.net.au

E. B. White’s 1948 essay ‘Death of a Pig’

theatlantic.com

22 February 2016

Monstrous fossils ‘were armadillos’, says DNA evidence

bbc.com

Two Naked Mole Rats, Seemingly Immune to Cancer, Got Cancer

nytimes.com

The man who made ‘the worst video game in history’

bbc.com

20 February 2016

Recent studies suggest the primary driver of the Cambrian explosion was rise of predators.

nature.com

Video: Ice stacking on Lake Superior

youtube.com

Take a virtual tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

mnh.si.edu

19 February 2016

Marooned Among the Polar Bears

popularmechanics.com

18 February 2016

Mantis shrimp evolved polarizers to communicate in private

bristol.ac.uk

Neanderthal woman with human DNA reveals mysterious ancient migration

cbc.ca

When to stop dating and settle down, according to math

washingtonpost.com

17 February 2016

Video: A chess Grandmaster plays against a chess hustler in Washington Square Park.

youtube.com

How astronomers are using transit spectroscopy to learn more about exoplanets’ atmospheres.

nature.com

Documentary video: The Brain with David Eagleman: What Is Reality?

youtube.com

16 February 2016

Espionage Techniques of Seventeenth-Century Women

nwo.nl

London’s Big Dig Reveals Amazing Layers of History

ngm.nationalgeographic.com

Image: Pablo Picasso’s self-portrait at age 16 versus another at age 72.

i.imgur.com

15 February 2016

We Are One Step Closer to Destroying Bedbugs Forever

citylab.com

Study: Wasps fly backwards to make sure they can find their way home

abc.net.au

14 February 2016

A short history of underwater firearms

warisboring.com

Mineralogists finish catalog of rarest minerals, some so scarce that only a few grams exist

bbc.com

Video: Spider-like ‘tailless whip scorpions’ (not actually a spider or scorpion, order amblypigi)

youtube.com

13 February 2016

Study: Touch typists no faster or more accurate than those who developed their own methods.

thestar.com

Why did the half-plane, half-helicopter not work?

bbc.com

New photos released of the inside of Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia

blog.nasm.si.edu

Cute and cuddly dolphins are secretly murderers

bbc.com

Why is it so hard to squash a cockroach?

sciencemag.org

12 February 2016

Inside Titanic II: Images reveal incredible replica of ill-fated ship

ctvnews.ca

How the Microscope Redefined the Fact

theatlantic.com

Ontario man missing 30 years suddenly remembers own identity

cbc.ca

11 February 2016

Study: Unconscious sighing every 5 minutes or so is necessary for survival.

sciencealert.com

Video: Physicists at LIGO have detected gravitational waves, proving General Relativity

nytimes.com

10 February 2016

Study: How competition increases cheating in sports, wealth, etc.

washingtonpost.com

The mystery that spans every feline, from tabby house cats to Siberian tigers.

theatlantic.com

The boiling-acid-water extremophiles of Kamchatka

bbc.com

NASA releases more of its excellent “space tourism” artwork

jpl.nasa.gov

Flies reared in the dark for 60 years give up their genetic secrets

nature.com

Photo: A newly formed star illuminating reflection nebula IC 2631

eso.org

09 February 2016

Researchers Just Discovered Hundreds of Galaxies Hidden Behind the Milky Way

gizmodo.com

Bacteria ‘see’ like tiny eyeballs

bbc.com

Study: Sleep deprivation linked to false confessions

newscientist.com

Stealing White: How a corporate spy swiped plans for DuPont’s billion-dollar color formula

bloomberg.com

08 February 2016

The Lives and Lies of a Professional Impostor

nytimes.com

The FBI and the Internet can’t crack this dead man’s code

kernelmag.dailydot.com

Taser shock disrupts brain function, has implications for police interrogations

eurekalert.org

Indian man could be first recorded human fatality due to a meteorite

arstechnica.com

Trauma prompts the brain to focus on survival, not ‘peripheral details’

cbc.ca

Trees, regardless of diameter, tend to break when wind speeds reach about 42 m/s (94 mph)

sciencemag.org

07 February 2016

Documentary: Attempting to excavate a preserved WW1 underground complex.

youtube.com

05 February 2016

The shortest physically meaningful length of time may be several orders of magnitude longer than the Planck time

phys.org

Three-parent babies may get US go-ahead, but only for sons

newscientist.com

04 February 2016

Digging Out: The story of a man who survived an avalanche that killed 7 of his classmates.

sportsnet.ca

In 2018 NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout will use a solar sail to visit nearby 1991 VG.

news.nationalgeographic.com

Biogenic carbon in 4.1 billion-year-old zircon suggests life began ∼300 million years earlier than thought. (PDF)

pnas.org

03 February 2016

The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever

dmagazine.com

The Walter White of Wichita

interactive.fusion.net

The Devil at 37,000 Feet

vanityfair.com

02 February 2016

Snowed in at NASA, Keeping Watch Over a Space Colossus

theatlantic.com

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