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Video: 2016502858579884466176 [16:48]
youtube.com

‘I’ve Written About Loads of Scams. This Phone Scam Almost Got Me.’
nytimes.com • Mirror

Different types of magic mushrooms use unique biochemical paths to produce the same active compound
phys.org

In 1909, Theodore Roosevelt Embarked on an Ambitious Expedition to East Africa. Here’s Why His Trip Still Matters Today
smithsonianmag.com

Winners of the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards
theatlantic.com • Mirror

Ukrainians Are Going behind Enemy Lines to Find the Children Russia Stole
thewalrus.ca

The Last Resort
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Huntington’s disease successfully treated for first time
bbc.com

Why Do Night Shift Workers Fall Sick More Frequently?
the-scientist.com

Video: This Recipe Took 3 Years… Ninja Kikatsugan [20:50]
youtube.com

The planet, and human social life, depend on peasant farmers
aeon.co

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived
space.com

Biosphere 2’s latest mission: Learning how life first emerged on Earth – and how to make barren worlds habitable
theconversation.com

Solving the mystery of whether a Bolivian salt flat is the world’s largest natural mirror
phys.org

Suicide-by-chatbot puts Big Tech in the product liability hot seat
theconversation.com

Liquid Water Once Flowed on Asteroid Ryugu’s Parent Body, Scientists Say
sci.news

The Heart of a Haunting Galaxy
nautil.us

Video: Making a working Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy prop from junk [35:25]
youtube.com

This Shipwreck Eluded Searchers for 139 Years. A Group of Historians and Citizen Scientists Found It in Two Hours
smithsonianmag.com

“These Features Were Completely Unexpected”: Webb Telescope Detects Unexplained ‘Structures’ in Saturn’s Atmosphere
thedebrief.org

The Queer Lives of Frogs
nautil.us

How do particle colliders work?
space.com

Video: What Will Humanity Leave Behind? [11:35]
youtube.com

Hermann Rorschach’s Original Rorschach Test: What Do You See? (1921)
openculture.com

The Other King Henry: On the Many Afterlives of Haiti’s Misunderstood Henry Christophe
lithub.com

The Art of Mid-Century Illustrator John Fleming Gould
saturdayeveningpost.com

Video: The only good nuclear accident [12:53]
youtube.com

Robotic Rabbits Help Researchers Catch Invasive Pythons in the Florida Everglades
discovermagazine.com

The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job
theguardian.com

Ghost Particles Could Boost Gold Production in Neutron Star Collisions
sciencealert.com

Mass evacuations as southern China braces for strongest storm of the year
bbc.com

Scientists find proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago
phys.org

The thousand-year story of how the fork crossed Europe, and onto your plate today
theconversation.com

Unusual Gravitational Wave May Be Sign of Wormhole Linking Universes
sciencealert.com

How Did Hands Evolve? Look to Your Anus, a New Study Suggests.
nytimes.com

How an Enron Parody Turned Into a Financial Mess of Its Own
bloomberg.com

Fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries
esa.int

Video: Quantum Computers Look Like Chandeliers. This is Why. [11:46]
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This Sword Swallower Filmed the Inside of Her Throat Mid-Act
vice.com • (see also)

When CBS Canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for Criticizing the American Establishment and the Vietnam War (1969)
openculture.com

What owning a cat does to your brain (and theirs)
theconversation.com • (see also)

It’s dragonfly migration season!
popsci.com

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
computerworld.com

A Simple Way To Measure Knots Has Come Unraveled
quantamagazine.org

Precious hoard lay forgotten for almost 3,000 years
bbc.com

Nathan Hale, the Doomed Patriot Spy, Probably Never Said ‘I Only Regret That I Have but One Life to Lose for My Country’ Before His Execution
smithsonianmag.com

On this day in 1979 an American nuclear detonation detection satellite detected…something.
damninteresting.com

Camping on the world’s largest island of ice
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Ice dissolves iron faster than liquid water, offering explanation for Arctic’s rusty rivers
phys.org

Astronomers Say Earth Has a Newly Discovered ‘Quasi-Moon,’ a Companion That Shares Its Orbit Around the Sun
smithsonianmag.com

Video: Spies, Smugglers, and How a Bitter Plant Became the World’s Favorite Drink [1:09:35]
youtube.com

What It’s Like to Get Really, Really High
newyorker.com • Mirror

Thieves Steal and Destroy Solid Silver Statue of Abraham Lincoln Created by Mount Rushmore Sculptor Gutzon Borglum
smithsonianmag.com • (see also)

Researchers Examine Centuries-Old Flip-Flop Sandals on an Ancient Roman Mosaic
mymodernmet.com

Video: Why English is full of silent letters [22:54]
youtube.com

Only 10% of Earthquake Energy Shakes the Ground. Here’s What the Rest Does.
vice.com

Petrichor, the Smell of Rain, Has A Lot of Science Behind It
discovermagazine.com

A Quebec town so tiny, $50M lottery win makes 10% of residents multimillionaires
cbc.ca

‘If he can be found, every one of the users can be’: unmasking the man behind toxic gossip website Tattle Life
theguardian.com

Why L.A.’s Ultra Rich Are Choosing to Rent — for Six Figures a Month
hollywoodreporter.com