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The World War II Diet That Saved Britain
thedailybeast.com

First Long-Distance Heart Surgery Performed Through a Robot
interestingengineering.com

Xkcd Creator Randall Munroe on the Joys of Overthinking Everything
slate.com

Why industry is going green on the quiet
theguardian.com

Why are Books That Shape? From Codices to Kindles, Why This Rectangle Stays Golden
bookriot.com

The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great Unsolved Mysteries
lithub.com

EA Received A Guinness World Record For Most Downvoted Comment In Reddit History
kotaku.com

‘I longed for the moment you would write’: the gulag penpals whose love lasted 60 years
theguardian.com

Strange life-forms found deep in a mine point to vast ‘underground Galapagos’
nbcnews.com

Driving an ambulance in a opioid-torn city in the age of Narcan
hazlitt.net

85 years ago today a fire broke out on the luxury turbo-electric ocean liner SS Morro Castle
damninteresting.com

Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics
nytimes.com • (see also)

‘Ding dong, it’s time’: dancing tarantulas emerge in droves to mate in western US
theguardian.com

Who Cleans Up All the Gore and Goop When the Horror Movie Cameras Stop Rolling?
melmagazine.com

DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators
vice.com

The holiday islands where locals have nowhere to live
bbc.com

Body of woman missing since 1992 found in lake
cbc.ca

Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts’ origins
theguardian.com

Toy Stories: Kids from around the world posing with prized possessions
gabrielegalimberti.com

Indian woman, 73 gives birth to twin girls
theguardian.com

India Loses Contact With Chandrayaan-2 Lander During Moon Descent
nytimes.com

The Mysterious Evacuation of Sunspot Observatory
narratively.com

The Accidental Invention of the Lifesaving Pacemaker
saturdayeveningpost.com

How to Plan a Family Around an Interplanetary Mission
theatlantic.com

China’s First Cloned Kitten, Garlic
the-scientist.com

Studying the Superhuman
scientificamerican.com

Early animal had ‘complex behaviour’
bbc.com

The psychology behind why we find clowns so creepy
qz.com

Geel, Belgium has a radical approach to mental illness
broadview.org

Thieves Used Audio Deepfake of a CEO to Steal $243,000
vice.com

If We Find Alien Life, Can We Avoid Harming It?
blogs.discovermagazine.com

Is Armed Conflict Possible in Today’s Europe?
spiegel.de

The Saltwater Railroad
daily.jstor.org

Why the Return of the Airship Makes More Sense Than Ever
popularmechanics.com

Gallery: The Unbuilt Streets of California’s Ghost Metropolis
wired.com

The Ancient Chinese Earthquake Detector That’s Puzzling Modern Researchers
amusingplanet.com

The Hidden Professional Code Breakers of Renaissance Venice
atlasobscura.com

How the East India Company became the world’s most powerful business
nationalgeographic.com

‘Storm Area 51’ Could Be a Disaster for Lincoln County
theatlantic.com

A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet
syfy.com

From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets
theguardian.com

The story of cannibalism that came true
bbc.com

India’s first lunar lander about to try for risky touchdown
nationalgeographic.com

Satellite Captures Four Tropical Cyclones from Space
nasa.gov

Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace, Baffling Scientists
gizmodo.com

Left-handed DNA found – and it changes brain structure
bbc.com

Ancient farmers burned the Amazon, but today’s fires are very different
nationalgeographic.com

Photos: The Wreckage Left by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas
theatlantic.com

1949 Chicago: A City Of Extremes Photographed By Stanley Kubrick
flashbak.com

Utopia, Abandoned
nytimes.com

Metaphors Are Us
nautil.us

What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves
newyorker.com

Why the U-2 Is Such a Badass Plane
popularmechanics.com

How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors
atlasobscura.com

Is there a worst time of day to get sick?
bbc.com

Sign of the times: how the signature became a meaningless scrawl
theguardian.com

How warm oceans supercharge deadly hurricanes
nationalgeographic.com

Please, My Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick.
laphamsquarterly.org

The Tragedy on Howse Peak
outsideonline.com

Why Polish people hate rules
bbc.com