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The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889: 15 Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life
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‘You feel the huge weight of history’: the room where Nazi Germany surrendered
theguardian.com

It’s Not Just You—Your Body Is Making More Belly Fat Now That You’re Older
vice.com

Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities
spectrum.ieee.org

What’s That? NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Weird “Honeycomb” and “Waffle” Patterns on Mysterious Martian Rocks
thedebrief.org

How Texas Made the Old West Even Wilder and Bloodier
texasmonthly.com

Video: When Abandoned Mines Collapse [17:32]
youtube.com

On this day in 1937 the Hindenburg crashed at Lakehurst Naval Air Station
damninteresting.com

Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove
quantamagazine.org

Video: How Does The Brain Actually Work? [2:55:15]
youtube.com

Two Hikers Picked Up an Aluminum Can—and Found a Secret Stash of 600 Gold Coins Inside
popularmechanics.com

How a genetic shortcut turned horses into nature’s super athletes
knowridge.com

‘Magic mushroom’ could reduce depression and motor issues in Parkinson’s
knowridge.com

A Strange, Unexplained Hum Is Keeping a Scottish Isle Awake at Night
gizmodo.com

‘If we can come back from that, we can come back from anything’: The burning river that fuelled a US green movement
bbc.com

A thousand stars are fleeing home in a hurry, and scientists don’t know why
space.com

What do your gums have to do with your heart? More than you might think.
theconversation.com

Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860)
openculture.com

This strange bacteria aligns to Earth’s magnetic field and needs friends to survive
space.com

A snapshot of relativistic motion: Special relativity made visible
phys.org

‘My Visit with My Dead Father’s Brain’
nautil.us • (see also)

Divers Found a Sealed Vessel in a 1,100-Year-Old Shipwreck. What’s Inside Is Still a Mystery.
popularmechanics.com

Beautiful images from the 2025 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year awards
popsci.com

Video: ‘I Spent 30 Days in a Dead Game’ [19:26]
youtube.com

Mathematician Finds Solution to One of The Oldest Problems in Algebra
sciencealert.com • (see also)

Do pandas eat anything besides bamboo?
livescience.com

Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plot
theguardian.com

Berlin still bears scars 80 years after pivotal battle that sealed the defeat of Nazi Germany
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The Great Salt Lake Is Drying. Can Utah Save It?
nytimes.com

The bizarre space explosions scientists can’t explain
bbc.com

How the loss of experienced individual elephants stops knowledge transfer between generations
phys.org

Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride
arstechnica.com

Can we detect alien artifacts?
astronomy.com • (see also)

Woman missing for more than 60 years found ‘alive and well’
news.sky.com

Video: Why most Americans have never had this bean [15:44]
youtube.com

On this day in 1988 a manufacturer of volatile chemicals in Nevada caught fire
damninteresting.com

How to Govern Like a Mongol
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Scientists say they’ve found another source of gold in the cosmos
yahoo.com • (see also)

Video: The Hacker Who Trolled Hollywood [16:45]
youtube.com

How Baseball Shaped Black Communities in Reconstruction-Era America
lithub.com

The Texan Who Built an Empire of Ecstasy
texasmonthly.com

Snake halts Japanese bullet trains after wrapping around power line
bbc.com

Charles Brooks Photographs the Interiors of Musical and Scientific Instruments
thisiscolossal.com

50 years later, Vietnam’s environment still bears the scars of war
salon.com

A man let snakes bite him 202 times. His blood helped create a new antivenom
sciencenews.org

Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Science reveals what happened
sciencenews.org

Conspiracies, Urban Legends, and the Most Dangerous (Video) Game
crimereads.com

The surprisingly tricky art of seed banking
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Mummy mystery solved: ‘air-dried’ priest was embalmed via rectum
theguardian.com

The Pill That Promises to Cure Grief
thewalrus.ca

Video: This Is The Best Predator Defense Of All Time [11:49]
youtube.com

This week: Boozy chimps, bone-collecting caterpillars, extinguishing the sun, and more!
damninteresting.com

NASA still trying to revive silent Lunar Trailblazer moon orbiter
space.com

How One Woman Lost $75,000 to an MLM
thecut.com • Mirror

What was food like before the FDA?
popsci.com

Australians rescue a 10-foot great white shark stranded in shallow water
apnews.com

New images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachute may be out
space.com

We know how to produce clean water. Why don’t we have enough of it?
thenewatlantis.com

Latest Dark Energy Study Suggests the Universe Is Even Weirder Than We Imagined
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Forensics tool ‘reanimates’ the ‘brains’ of AIs that fail in order to understand what went wrong
theconversation.com