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James Ellroy: Cracking the Case of Murdered Actor Sal Mineo
hollywoodreporter.com

Archaeologists find remains of horses in ancient Pompeii stable
theguardian.com

Photos: Deadly Tsunami Strikes Indonesia’s Sunda Strait
theatlantic.com

A Brief History of the Snow Globe
artsy.net

What Happens When a World Order Ends
foreignaffairs.com

Tibet Is Going Crazy for Hoops
theatlantic.com

A desert explosion helps scientists plan earthquake-detecting balloons on Venus
sciencemag.org

Why American cities are so weirdly shaped
economist.com

A New Class of ‘Light’ Super-Earth May Be Heavy in Rubies and Sapphires
space.com

The mathematics of malaria
cosmosmagazine.com

The science stories that shook 2018
theguardian.com

The Lunar Farside and the Cosmic Dark Age
blogs.scientificamerican.com • (see also)

Why Exaggeration Jokes Work
theatlantic.com • (see also)

Indonesia tsunami: How a volcano can be the trigger
bbc.com

Chinese scientists turn copper into ‘gold’
scmp.com

Emperor Akihito: Huge crowds as Japan monarch gives emotional farewell
bbc.com

How Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel
medium.com

When the Christmas Plant Was a Pepper, Not a Poinsettia
atlasobscura.com

Christmas ‘Hippo’ Asteroid Is Buzzing Earth, Its Closest Flyby in 400 Years
livescience.com

Prime and Punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace
theverge.com

Meet the Hurdy Gurdy, the Hand-Cranked Medieval Instrument with 80 Moving Parts
openculture.com

It’s Intermission for the Large Hadron Collider
nytimes.com

The Scientists Who Play With Wildfire
earther.gizmodo.com

A strange journey to the glitter factory
nytimes.com

The World Has A New Largest-Known Prime Number
npr.org

Pepper-picking robot could help combat a shortage of farm labor
cnbc.com

We’re Recreating Alien Atmospheres on Earth To Search for Life Beyond the Solar System
popularmechanics.com

Life and Death on El Capitan
outsideonline.com

Scientists Find A Brain Circuit That Could Explain Seasonal Depression
npr.org

WATCH: First-Ever Footage of a Lizard Breathing Underwater
livescience.com

Uranus was pushed over on its side by giant rock, research shows
cbc.ca

Ultima Thule’s First Mystery
pluto.jhuapl.edu

New AI-Powered System Creates 3D Animations From Still Images
gizmodo.com

On this day in 1939 legendary Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä hit his personal record for a single day: 25 confirmed Russian kills
damninteresting.com

These skulls look purple and orange. They are both red.
popsci.com

Gallery: Tour an abandoned 1960s Frank Lloyd Wright palace in Iran
yomadic.com

New Horizons May Make Yet Another Flyby After Ultima Thule
space.com

How to write a hit song
cosmosmagazine.com

Explorer Reaches the Deepest Point in the Atlantic Ocean
livescience.com

He suspected his roommate left the racist graffiti. He didn’t know about the poison.
washingtonpost.com

The Genetic Legacy of the Spanish Inquisition
theatlantic.com

Antarctic explorers enter no-rescue zone
nationalgeographic.com

With First-Ever Landing on Moon’s Farside, China Enters “Luna Incognita”
scientificamerican.com

‘We are at war’: New York’s rat crisis made worse by climate change
theguardian.com

Highlights From the Year in Space and Astronomy Developments
nytimes.com

A Courting Peacock Can Shake Its Partner’s Head From Afar
theatlantic.com

Bloodstain Analysis Convinced a Jury She Stabbed Her 10-Year-Old Son. Now, Even Freedom Can’t Give Her Back Her Life.
propublica.org

Photos: 50 Years Since Apollo 8 Showed Us Earthrise
theatlantic.com

Who Wants to Go Ice Skating Across This Wintry Martian Crater?
gizmodo.com

The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini
nytimes.com

Sound tweezers levitate and manipulate small objects for noninvasive surgery and 3D displays
newatlas.com

Plastic pollution discovered at deepest point of ocean
theguardian.com • (see also)

For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain
smithsonianmag.com

Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor
bloomberg.com

NASA’s InSight Lander Plops Seismometer on Mars to Hunt Marsquakes
space.com

World’s Oldest Flower Unfurled Its Petals More Than 174 Million Years Ago
livescience.com

Meet the last horsemen of these paradise islands
nationalgeographic.com

What We Learned in 2018: Science
nytimes.com

Video: How to Build a Dyson Sphere – The Ultimate Megastructure
youtube.com

Puzzling Montana Shooting Blamed on Sasquatch Mistake: ‘I Thought You Were Bigfoot’
gizmodo.com