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100-year old fruit cake found in Antarctica’s oldest building
nzaht.org

Look Up! 2017 Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend
space.com

Bees are first insects shown to understand the concept of zero
newscientist.com

How your mind protects you against hallucinations
sciencemag.org

Mayak ‘Lighthouse in the Sky’ Fails to Deploy Solar Reflector
spaceflight101.com

Wipe Out: When the BBC Kept Erasing Its Own History
mentalfloss.com

Forced Into the City After 9,000 Years in the Jungle
bloomberg.com

The Extraordinary Nazca Prehistoric Balloon
nott.com

When Beethoven Met Goethe
theamericanscholar.org

Earliest-Known Winged Mammal Relatives Discovered In China
npr.org

What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity
nytimes.com

The Moon’s Origin Story Is in Crisis
theatlantic.com

How Ice Cream Helped America at War
theatlantic.com

New Dinosaur Species Was Largest Animal Ever to Walk the Earth
news.nationalgeographic.com

Unlearning the myth of American innocence
theguardian.com

Meet Alex, the Russian Casino Hacker Who Makes Millions Targeting Slot Machines
wired.com

German woman pockets ‘amber’ stone that turns out to be explosive WW2-era white phosphorous
telegraph.co.uk

I think I know where babies come from, therefore I am human
aeon.co

Video: The tiny island in New York City that nobody is allowed to visit
youtube.com

‘He should be as well known as Schindler’: Documents reveal Canadian citizen Julius Kuhl as Holocaust hero
theglobeandmail.com

Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star
phys.org

The 1920 peace plan for Europe that divided up the continent like a pie
bigthink.com

On this day in 1945, 29-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived another atomic bomb
damninteresting.com

Video: NASA Curiosity rover’s 5-year time-lapse
youtube.com

‘Quite a treasure’: Scientists find 4,200-year-old bird preserved in glacial ice
cbc.ca

Multilevel-marketing companies like LuLaRoe are forcing people into debt and psychological crisis
qz.com

1,000-year-old German dinner reveals long-distance Viking trade routes
arstechnica.com

The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love
longreads.com

Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes
nautil.us

Why Germans pay cash for almost everything
qz.com

Better Business Through Sci-Fi
newyorker.com

The confusing world of the Liger
wildlifewaystation.org

Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street
sfchronicle.com

There would have been no mass dino extinction if the asteroid had arrived ten minutes earlier or later
3quarksdaily.com

Mushroom rises from fungus buried in sea for 20 million years
asahi.com

After 5 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Still Making Big Discoveries
space.com

How a fish tank helped hack a casino
washingtonpost.com

The Man Who Picked Victorian London’s Unpickable Lock
mentalfloss.com

On this day in 1931, an old, retrofitted submarine set out for the north pole
damninteresting.com

Evidence that ancient farms had very different origins than previously thought
arstechnica.com

Nearly all the world’s fake products come from China. America’s oldest private detective agency is on the case
story.californiasunday.com

Having trouble sleeping? Blame evolution, study says
thestar.com

Hubble Telescope Detects Stratosphere on Huge Alien Planet
space.com

The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe
nytimes.com

See the exquisite fossil that revealed the colors of a giant armored nodosaur
washingtonpost.com

Ever-Elusive Neutrinos Spotted Bouncing Off Nuclei for the First Time
scientificamerican.com

Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age
nytimes.com

They were partners in fighting crime. The only problem: Neither was a cop
magazine.atavist.com

The Arsonist Was Like a Ghost
longreads.com

Spending six days in a cave without any light means hallucinations, hypothermia, and the potential for fatal falls
esquire.com

Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail: Prosecution of white-collar crime is at a twenty-year low
newyorker.com

Three visual illusions that reveal the hidden workings of the brain
theconversation.com

She Was Convicted of Killing Her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld the Evidence That Would Have Freed Her.
nytimes.com

The Secret Economic Lives of Animals
bloomberg.com

Mother of all blooms: is this what the last common ancestor of flowers looked like?
theguardian.com

Inmates use peanut butter to escape Alabama jail
virginianews.co

Scientist may have solved the century-old mystery of why a legendary Civil War submarine sank
hakaimagazine.com

Proxima b Probably Isn’t Habitable After All, NASA Says
inverse.com

A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature—Ball Lightning
nautil.us

What Exactly is Bubble Gum Flavor?
spoonuniversity.com