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The Surprising, Secret Origins of Fruit Roll-Ups
thrillist.com

What Happens When Robots Act Just Like Humans
wired.com

Gun waiting periods prevent hundreds of homicides, according to 45-year study
arstechnica.com

Mark Twain Liked Cats Better Than People
smithsonianmag.com

The Secretive Family Making Billions From the Opioid Crisis
esquire.com

The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare (i.e., advertising is poison)
fastcompany.com

A Nine-Year Collaboration Has Just Shown How Sugar Exacerbates Cancer
sciencealert.com

On this day in 1814, a beer flood in London claimed eight souls
damninteresting.com

Explore (most of) the solar system in Google Maps
engadget.com

Whales and dolphins lead ‘human-like lives’ thanks to big brains, says study
theguardian.com

On this day in 1964: China detonated its first a-bomb, prompting the US to install a spy device atop the Himalayas
damninteresting.com

A Fire Story
brianfies.blogspot.com

Hydrothermal vents found on Mars raise hope in search for life
cbc.ca

Video: Veritasium provides more details about today’s LIGO gravitational waves announcement
youtube.com

Chilling video footage of a 1939 pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden
kottke.org

Where can North Korea’s missiles reach?
abc.net.au

To Save Her Children, She Pretended To Be Crazy
npr.org

There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence – Machine Intelligence Research Institute
intelligence.org

Self-driving car accidents: Robot drivers are ‘odd, and that’s why they get hit’
seattletimes.com

How a Quarter of Cow DNA Came From Reptiles
theatlantic.com

Scientists detect gravitational waves from a new kind of nova, sparking a new era in astronomy
washingtonpost.com

Arthur Schopenhauer on the Dangers of Clickbait
farnamstreetblog.com

Analysis of 141 hours of cable news reveals how mass killers are really portrayed
qz.com

Great Storm 1987: The day 18 people were killed
bbc.com

A single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16 million atoms
phys.org

Intense storms batter Saturn’s largest moon, scientists report
astronomynow.com

Death of the Nile
bbc.co.uk

What NASA’s Simulated Missions Tell Us about the Need for Martian Law
scientificamerican.com

Asteroid that barely missed Earth this week could wreak havoc in the not-so-distant future
bgr.com

How a Gilded Age Heiress Became the ‘Mother of Forensic Science’
theatlantic.com

The Secret Liquor History of Nursery Rhymes
thedailybeast.com

Jeremy, The Lonely, Left-Twisting Snail, Dies – But Knows Love Before The End
npr.org

The thoughts of Chairman Xi
bbc.co.uk

Living in a greener neighbourhood could lower risk of early death: study
cbc.ca

They survived six hours in a pool as a wildfire burned their neighborhood to the ground
latimes.com

Interesting reddit AMA with SpaceX founder Elon Musk
reddit.com

Magic mushrooms may ‘reset’ the brains of depressed patients
www3.imperial.ac.uk

Planet Nine Does Exist, NASA Evidence Suggests
livescience.com

One Australian island has a bold plan to annihilate all its rats
popsci.com

There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever
smithsonianmag.com

Where ‘Hitler’ doesn’t mean anything
theoutline.com

The Rock Solid History of Concrete
popularmechanics.com

Interactive: ‘The angry sea will kill us all’
interactives.stuff.co.nz

The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets
theguardian.com

Chinese space station set to crash-land on Earth’s surface within months
cnbc.com

How Ether Transformed Surgery from a Race against the Clock
scientificamerican.com

This Is How Online Dating Has Changed The Very Fabric of Society
sciencealert.com

The sound in Havana: What Americans heard in Cuba attacks
apnews.com

World’s first “negative emissions” plant turns carbon dioxide into stone
qz.com

How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World
theatlantic.com

Video: To save her own life, she left her father to die
nytimes.com

Reconstructing Cassini’s plunge into Saturn
phys.org

The Creator of Bitcoin Comes Clean, Only to Disappear Again
longreads.com

Our Language, Their Babble: Interpreting in Nazi Concentration Camps
drb.ie

Mass Killings: An Evolutionary Perspective
psychologytoday.com

The Complicated Quest To Redesign Braille
fastcodesign.com

Russia’s House of Shadows
newyorker.com

We have a pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct
washingtonpost.com

The sadness of Saturn
theoutline.com

A Surprise From the Supervolcano Under Yellowstone
nytimes.com