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Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama
nationalgeographic.com

Stunning Sonar Image Just Revealed Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
sciencealert.com

The surprising truth about Caesar salad
bbc.com

The Loneliest Stars in the Galaxy
theatlantic.com

Gallery: The Small Bodies of the Solar System
theatlantic.com

The criminals who fool doctors
bbc.com

‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers
nytimes.com

Laugh tracks: The misunderstood glue holding sitcoms together
qz.com

How Did Life Arrive on Land? A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues
nytimes.com

This economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal
vox.com

Experts Ranked the Most Dangerous Countries for Women. The U.S. Made the Top 10
fortune.com

We’ll soon know the exact air pollution from every power plant in the world. That’s huge.
vox.com

This Weird Meteorite Crashed Through a Doghouse in Costa Rica. (The Dog’s Fine)
space.com

Why Are Two Stars in Our Galaxy Suddenly Acting Very Strange?
livescience.com

How the Voynich manuscript hit the headlines
historyextra.com

Why Were Medieval Europeans So Obsessed With Long, Pointy Shoes?
atlasobscura.com

Measles Had Been Eliminated. Now It’s Nearly a Daily Threat
wired.com

Could Airships Really Revolutionize the U.S. Navy?
popularmechanics.com

This is the world’s rarest form of gold. New clues are revealing why.
nationalgeographic.com

Scientists want to limit climate change by releasing more CO2
popsci.com

Huge double asteroid to pass safely May 25
earthsky.org

Is modern life poisoning me? I took the tests to find out
theguardian.com

A cadet died in a tragedy. Now his parents can use his sperm to create his child, a judge rules.
washingtonpost.com

Scientists: Why we should appreciate wasps
bbc.com

New York Has a Supervillain Pulling Emergency Brakes and Destroying Subway Commutes
jalopnik.com

The Secret NYC Gallery that brought Picasso & the Avant-garde to America
messynessychic.com

Wild Observation Shows White Dwarf Stars Merging Into Something New
gizmodo.com

Rats Are Taking Over New York City
nytimes.com

Meet the Guy Who Spends Months in the Antarctic Collecting Penguin Poop
earther.gizmodo.com

Queen Victoria’s risqué side revealed with nude-filled collection
theguardian.com

The Troubled History of Psychiatry
newyorker.com

Who’s that girl? Queen Victoria as we’ve never seen her before
theguardian.com

An exceedingly nifty WebGL fluid simulation
paveldogreat.github.io

Scientists ‘paint’ Mona Lisa on a quantum canvas
uq.edu.au

For the First Time Ever, Researchers Identify Reddish Fur In 3-Million-Year-Old Fossil
interestingengineering.com

Measles erases the immune system’s memory
sciencenews.org

Read Hundreds of Medical Case Files by Two 17th-Century Quacks
smithsonianmag.com

We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
wired.com

Are We Reaching the End of Spacewalks?
popularmechanics.com

Viruses Can Scatter Their Genes Among Cells and Reassemble
quantamagazine.org

Tornadoes: The science behind the destruction
news.nationalgeographic.com

Driverless cars working together can speed up traffic by 35 percent
cam.ac.uk • (~14 years ago)

10-Foot-Tall Stone Jars ‘Made by Giants’ Stored Human Bodies in Ancient Laos
livescience.com

Pluto Has a Buried Ocean — And So Might Many Other Worlds
space.com

African samurai: The enduring legacy of a black warrior in feudal Japan
cnn.com

New Coke Was a Debacle. It’s Coming Back. Blame Netflix.
nytimes.com • (see also)

Beyond the Hype of Lab-Grown Diamonds
earther.gizmodo.com

The Lavish Roman Banquet: A Calculated Display Of Debauchery And Power
npr.org

The man who is ageing too fast
mosaicscience.com

On this day in 1946 Dr. Louis Slotin was bitten by the nuclear dragon
damninteresting.com

Risks, rewards accompany speedier cleanup of closed nukes
apnews.com

Vietnam’s Ongoing Fight Against Agent Orange
spiegel.de

The NXIVM ‘Sex Cult’ Story Keeps Getting More Disturbing
vice.com

Simply elegant, Morse code marks 175 years and counting
theconversation.com • (see also)

A baby was mysteriously abandoned in an airport bathroom in 1986. Now he knows the truth.
washingtonpost.com

Florida Man: what lies behind the Sunshine State’s crazy stereotype?
theguardian.com

The Medieval Practices That Reshaped Europe’s Fish
theatlantic.com

How these cities became rat-free zones
bbc.com

How modern life exacerbates and rewards human vigilance and worry
aeon.co • (see also)

The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
quantamagazine.org