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How Jackie Chan Filmed the Best Fight Scene in Cinema History
openculture.com

These French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution
lemonde.fr

Video: COVID Lab Leak: A State of the Evidence [47:49]
youtube.com

Man Arrested for Trying to Break the Glass Protecting the Stone of Destiny in Scotland
smithsonianmag.com

India’s ancient and mysterious ‘dwarf’ chambers
bbc.com

On this day in 1917 the residents of Clipperton Island took matters into their own hands
damninteresting.com

Humpback whales now migrate south weeks earlier as ocean warms, surveys show
phys.org

Scientists demonstrate that “AI’s superhuman persuasiveness is already a reality”
psypost.org

Scientists Just Solved a Solar Mystery That Baffled Humanity For Centuries
popularmechanics.com

The Foehn effect: why it’s warmer on one side of a mountain than the other
theguardian.com

Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock mystery
bbc.com

Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA’s Chandra spacecraft: ‘The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great’
space.com

Some Researchers Are Hiding Secret Messages in Their Papers, but They’re Not Meant for Humans
smithsonianmag.com

‘What I Inherited from My Criminal Great-Grandparents’
newyorker.com • Mirror

How Android phones became an earthquake warning system
arstechnica.com

California farmers identify a hot new cash crop: Solar power
theconversation.com

“There Will Be No Mercy”: On the Frontlines of War in Ethiopia
magazine.atavist.com

World’s most accurate clock requires a 2-mile laser beam
popsci.com • (see also)

Killer whales hunt following ‘a geometrical pattern’: They divide roles to stun their prey
english.elpais.com

Video: Ryugyong Hotel: Inside North Korea’s Forbidden Skyscraper [29:00]
youtube.com

The Twin Bandits Who (Nearly) Outsmarted Australian Police
magazine.atavist.com

Man Escapes Prison by Hiding in Released Cellmate’s Laundry Bag
vice.com

Preserved Blood Vessels Discovered in a Rib Bone from the World’s Largest T. Rex Could Shed Light on How Dinosaurs Healed
smithsonianmag.com

A New Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
quantamagazine.org

Astrophotographer captures galactic fireworks near the Seahorse Nebula in eerie deep-space photo
space.com

New Clue to How Matter Outlasted Antimatter at the Big Bang Is Found
nytimes.com

‘I’ve never seen a case like Constance Marten and Mark Gordon’s – it was jaw-dropping’
bbc.com

Astronomers witness the birth of a planetary system for the 1st time (video)
space.com

On this day in 1962 the pint-size Davy Crockett atomic weapon system was tested in the Nevada desert
damninteresting.com

Video: Is This New York Skyscraper Cursed? [19:43]
youtube.com

Animals react to secret sounds from plants, say scientists
bbc.com

The cause of sudden cardiac arrest is one of medicine’s great — and most underfunded — mysteries.
nymag.com • Mirror

Video: The Hidden Engineering of Floating Bridges [17:35]
youtube.com

Babies made using three people’s DNA are born free of hereditary disease
bbc.com

The breakthrough proof bringing mathematics closer to a grand unified theory
nature.com

Gemini North image of 3I/ATLAS
skyatnightmagazine.com

Another hole has formed at Yellowstone National Park, geologists say
abcnews.go.com

Did a Montreal Teacher Try to Sell His Students’ “Creepy” Art?
thewalrus.ca

Why is South Korea retrying a spy chief who assassinated a president?
bbc.com

80 years ago today, Professor Edgerton’s atomic camera captured images of the first nuclear explosion
damninteresting.com

Inside the Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies
msn.com

Amateur Astrophotographer Captures Incredible Solar Eclipse on Saturn
mymodernmet.com

We’ve discovered a new kind of magnetism. What can we do with it?
newscientist.com • Mirror

Astronomer Says the Object Approaching Us From Beyond the Solar System Is Not What We Think
futurism.com

NYC’s Subway Flooding Isn’t A Fluke. It’s The Reality For Cities In A Warming World
npr.org

Photographer’s Incredible Nebula Photo Took Three Years to Capture
petapixel.com

Video: Typhoid Mary’s Peach Ice Cream [23:49]
youtube.com

27 Notes On Growing Old(er)
ian-leslie.com • via

MIT’s bionic knee offers natural movement for amputees
newatlas.com

The handshake in orbit that made the International Space Station possible
bbc.com

Photos: The Grand Canyon Burns
theatlantic.com

Don’t bet on Friday: Research shows financial risk-taking rises at end of work week, without payoff
phys.org

Newly-Discovered Interstellar Comet is Billions of Years Older Than the Solar System
universetoday.com

Remember Webb’s ‘impossible’ black holes? Astronomers may have found the answer in the Infinity Galaxy
skyatnightmagazine.com

Video: Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G [22:24]
youtube.com • (see also)

His alleged victims say he bribed the New York Police, stole millions in diamonds, and persuaded celebrities to shill for a scam cryptocurrency
magazine.atavist.com

Tiny Brain Region Orchestrates How We Segment and Remember Life Events
neurosciencenews.com

Video: Why The QWERTY Keyboard Actually Sucks [8:09]
youtube.com