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The Time Bandits of Southern California
gq.com

Doctors Retrieve Spoon from Man’s Esophagus — A Year After He Swallowed It
livescience.com

Study: Removal of the appendix is associated with a decreased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease
cosmosmagazine.com

India prompts protests with unveiling of world’s biggest statue
theguardian.com

Video: The Woman in the Iron Coffin [55:11]
pbs.org

How to Not Become a Zombie, Using Martial Arts
theatlantic.com

Most detailed observations of material orbiting close to a black hole
phys.org

Giant flightless birds were nocturnal and possibly blind
phys.org

Just How Fast Is the Parker Solar Probe? Astonishingly Fast
wired.com

Russian official says Soyuz rocket failure caused by an errant sensor
arstechnica.com

Has new ghost particle manifested at Large Hadron Collider?
theguardian.com

A Florida woman disappeared, but she never left home
tampabay.com

A Vault of Glass and the Deepest Volcanic Eruption Ever Detected
nytimes.com

Telescope Drama Could Thwart the Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life
gizmodo.com

Analysis: Why did the golden age of The Simpsons end?
nathancunn.com

On this day in 1961 the USSR detonated the most powerful atomic bomb in history
damninteresting.com

‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails
centauri-dreams.org

NASA Retires Kepler Space Telescope, Passes Planet-Hunting Torch
nasa.gov

Scientists Home in on the Best ‘Water Worlds’ to Search for Alien Life
space.com

The Ziggurat of Choga Zanbil
amusingplanet.com

Betting on bats for genetic treasures
knowablemagazine.org

How NASA Will Use Robots to Create Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil
spectrum.ieee.org

Here Are the Real (and Freaky) Experiments That Inspired ‘Frankenstein’
livescience.com

What We Learned from the Deaths at Yarnell Hill
outsideonline.com

Fake drugs: the global industry putting your life at risk
mosaicscience.com

Illuminating the ‘dark web’
theconversation.com

Coral Castle: A Haunting Monument to Love. Or Aliens. Or Limestone.
bittersoutherner.com

The Get-Rich-Quick Scheme That Almost Killed a German Soccer Team
bloomberg.com

Annual ‘Suffocations’ Are the Forest Fires of the Ocean
popularmechanics.com

Medieval Europeans Didn’t Have Tupperware, They Had Pastry Coffins
atlasobscura.com

Trolling the Monster in the Heart of the Milky Way (autoplay video)
nytimes.com

A Metrological Trick to Stealing Land and Cheating Peasants
theatlantic.com

Niels Högel: German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients
bbc.com

Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal
scientificamerican.com

The Time Capsule That’s as Big as Human History
gq.com

Scientists Have Found The Largest Deep-Sea Nursery, With More Than 1000 Octopuses
sciencealert.com

The First Car in the World Was Hilariously Bad and Awful and Brilliant
jalopnik.com

Astronomers Propose Huge New Telescope System to Understand the Most Energetic Particles Ever Detected
gizmodo.com

Scientists debunk the effectiveness of EnChroma glasses for colorblind people
phys.org

A NASA Spacecraft Just Broke the Record for Closest Approach to Sun
space.com

‘The SOS in my Halloween decorations’
bbc.com

The Civil War massacre that left nearly 200 black soldiers ‘murdered’
washingtonpost.com

Descent into darkness: How a B.C. man wound up dead in Peru
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

America’s trailblazing racer, Denise McCluggage
si.com

On or around this day in 1982, a pipeline in Siberia exploded, allegedly due to American software sabotage
damninteresting.com

Slot machines flash and ring to prompt more bets
cosmosmagazine.com

Chocolate Has a New Origin Story
gizmodo.com

Can Seabiscuit’s DNA explain his elite racing ability?
theconversation.com

In 1590, Starving Parisians Ground Human Bones Into Bread
atlasobscura.com

The Day the Great Plains Burned
newyorker.com

The Saltier the Licorice, the Happier the Country. Just Look at Finland.
nytimes.com

The shame of ‘Sir’: British honours and decolonisation
aeon.co

If you think the First World War began senselessly, consider how it ended.
newyorker.com

Jack the Ripper murders still unsolved after a century
nationalgeographic.com

Redefining the Kilogram
scientificamerican.com

A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Violence in America
theatlantic.com

Dogs can detect malaria by sniffing people’s socks
theguardian.com

The cost of keeping Singapore squeaky clean
bbc.com

Endgame: how Australian preppers are bugging out and hunkering down
theguardian.com

The Mines of Messines Ridge
amusingplanet.com