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‘Hobbit’ human story gets a twist, thanks to thousands of rat bones
nationalgeographic.com

A Genetic Basis for Insomnia Emerges from the Twilight
scientificamerican.com

Pilot lived a mysterious double life. Then a plane crash exposed aliases, falsehoods and questions
latimes.com

Fake drugs kill more than 250,000 children a year, doctors warn
theguardian.com

Saudi plane turns around after mother forgets baby at airport
theguardian.com

Photos: An Ancient Ceremony to Celebrate the End of Winter
theatlantic.com

From Russia, With Thrusters
nytimes.com

Your Environment Is Cleaner. Your Immune System Has Never Been So Unprepared.
nytimes.com

A Bar at the Folies-Bergere: A symbol planted in cleavage
bbc.com

Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the web: ‘If we dream a little, we can get the web we want’
theguardian.com

Two decades after vanishing, her daughter suddenly showed up with children, a new identity — and speaking Spanish
washingtonpost.com

Living Near a Supermassive Black Hole
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Jill the Ripper
longreads.com

Japan’s moon rover will be made by Toyota
engadget.com

This is what it’s like waking up during surgery
mosaicscience.com

The Tragedy of Baltimore
nytimes.com

Traces of Giant, 2,700-Year-Old Solar Storm Detected in Greenland Ice
gizmodo.com • (see also)

Study: Infants as young as five months can differentiate laughter between friends and that between strangers
nyu.edu • (see also)

Sound by the Pound: Surprising Discovery Hints Sonic Waves Carry Mass
scientificamerican.com

LRO sheds light on lunar water movement
phys.org

The Universe’s Ultimate Complexity Revealed by Simple Quantum Games
quantamagazine.org

Why icing a sprain doesn’t help, and could slow recovery
washingtonpost.com

Listening to quantum radio
tudelft.nl

Remembering the burglary that broke COINTELPRO
muckrock.com

Time’s running out on daylight saving shift
latimes.com

How the Bauhaus Kept the Nazis at Bay, Until It Couldn’t
citylab.com

How Much Of The Unobservable Universe Will We Someday Be Able To See?
forbes.com

Engineering for the Long Haul, the NASA Way
hackaday.com

How the Internet Travels Across Oceans
nytimes.com • (see also)

It’s 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change
npr.org

Stem cells divide faster in space
cosmosmagazine.com

Radioactive Glass Beads May Tell the Terrible Tale of How the Fukushima Meltdown Unfolded
scientificamerican.com

The Truth About People Who Have No Personality
theatlantic.com

Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements
nytimes.com

Sloths in the Water
hakaimagazine.com

Here’s What We Know About Planet Nine
popularmechanics.com

What Happened to the Uber-for-X Companies
theatlantic.com

The Prankster Physicist: Richard Feynman
interestingengineering.com

The Curious Reason Some Icebergs Are Green
popularmechanics.com

The final indignity for ‘El Negro’, laid to rest in wrong country
theguardian.com

The rise, set and rise of daylight saving time
washingtonpost.com

An Antibody-Inspired Small Molecule Could Make For A Better Flu Treatment
npr.org

Italian scholars unveil Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘only surviving sculpture’
theguardian.com

The Secrets of the Prague Astronomical Clock
interestingengineering.com

The Japanese Sword as the Soul of the Samurai – A 1969 documentary on Japanese swords, narrated by George Takei [23:30]
archive.org

Barking drones used on farms instead of sheep dogs
radionz.co.nz

The Building Inspector as Action Hero
nytimes.com

An expert in child sexual abuse weighs in on Leaving Neverland
theconversation.com

Photos: The Tibetan uprising of 1959 that led to the Dalai Lama’s long exile
qz.com

Video: Sonification of a Hubble Deep Space Image
youtube.com

‘More stupid than it was criminal:’ Judge frees Halifax brothers involved in border standoff
cbc.ca

The Prized Pepper That Comes From a Single New Mexican Town
atlasobscura.com

Neuroscientists can read brain activity to predict decisions 11 seconds before people act
qz.com

‘Centurians of Rome’: How a Bank Robber Made the Most Expensive Gay Porno of All Time
thedailybeast.com

Here’s A Simple Trick For Anyone Who Finds Eye Contact Too Intense
digest.bps.org.uk

Older GPS devices are facing their own mini Y2K bug next month
theverge.com

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Catches Lunar Freeze Frame
nasa.gov

Silicon Valley meat startups using gene-editing tool Crispr
businessinsider.com

K Stars May Be Perfect for Finding Habitable Worlds
scitechdaily.com

45 years ago today Hiroo Onoda was finally officially relieved from his WW2 post
damninteresting.com