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Language Is the Scaffold of the Mind
nautil.us

‘A cure so poisonous that, if I survived, I could lose my eyesight, speech and memory’
theguardian.com

How a globe-trotting, adventure-seeking socialite became the first American woman in uniform captured by the Nazis
washingtonpost.com

Revisiting Disney’s America: The Theme Park That Never Was
popularmechanics.com

Another grim climate report on oceans – what will it take to address the compounding problems?
theconversation.com

A T. rex bite could have crushed a car. Here’s how.
nationalgeographic.com

NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World
nasa.gov

A Fairy-Tale Mission: The Folklore Behind Japan’s Visit to the Asteroid Ryugu
space.com

Nobody Knows What Made the Gargantuan Crater on the Dark Side of the Moon
livescience.com • (see also)

Prehistoric People Used Pottery Baby Bottles
nytimes.com

The Moon as a Fishing Net for Extraterrestrial Life
blogs.scientificamerican.com

Video: TESS Catches its First Star-destroying Black Hole [1:46]
youtube.com

Scientists invent new technology to print invisible messages
theguardian.com

Bitcoin Has Crashed–What Now?
forbes.com

‘Follow Us to the Ends of the Earth’
nytimes.com

Millions of dollars are missing. The sheriff is dead. A small Virginia town wants answers.
washingtonpost.com

The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
rollingstone.com

Researchers find lead in turmeric
phys.org • (see also)

Hotter than the sun: The mysterious solar corona
knowablemagazine.org

NASA wants to build a new space telescope to spot dangerous asteroids
technologyreview.com

Plant-based meat and the knock-down, drag-out fight for the American diet
vox.com

Just How Feasible is a Warp Drive?
universetoday.com

Astrophysicists Devised Clever New Way to Measure a Black Hole’s Mass
scitechdaily.com

How Amateur Video Is Helping Us Understand Deadly Tsunamis
wired.com

Brothers Grimm fairy tales were never meant for kids
nationalgeographic.com

Why the Myth of Period Syncing Won’t Go Away
theatlantic.com

Gallery: ‘A City of Half-Crazy People’ – Photographs of Leningrad (St Petersburg) in 1961
flashbak.com

The Persistent Problems of Punctuation
saturdayeveningpost.com

Why Are Tibetans Still Burning Themselves Alive?
outsideonline.com

To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight
quantamagazine.org

Meet Delta Cephei, a famous variable star
earthsky.org

Machu Picchu was built over major fault zones. Now, researchers think they know why
sciencemag.org

Bypassing Moore’s Law With High-Speed Photonic Computers
scitechdaily.com

A New Theory of Obesity
scientificamerican.com

“Glass Pearls” in Clam Shells Point to Ancient Meteor Impact
eos.org

3-D printed ‘ghost guns’ pose new challenges for crime-scene investigators
sciencenews.org

You Might Not Want to Eat Bugs. But Would You Eat Meat That Ate Bugs?
nytimes.com

New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms
scientificamerican.com • (see also)

A year trapped in Arctic ice for climate science
esa.int

Teenager’s Diary Offers Window Into Life Under Soviets and Nazis
nytimes.com

A revenge-seeking fitness expert created 369 fake Instagram accounts and staged a kidnapping
sfgate.com

The Last Manson Mystery
rollingstone.com

Einstein’s Theory Predicts a Weird State of Matter. Could It Be Lurking in the World’s Largest Atom Smasher?
livescience.com

Video: A simulation for a plausible escalating nuclear war between the United States and Russia [4:18]
youtube.com

How Google Changed the Secretive Market for the Most Dangerous Hacks in the World
vice.com

Gallery: The Undertaker Village of Paris: Then & Now
messynessychic.com

British man returns to Yukon to drink famous cocktail featuring his amputated toe
thestar.com

‘I ‘stormed’ Area 51 and it was even weirder than I imagined’
theguardian.com

Renewed Violence in Colombia: A Visit to FARC’s Jungle Lair
spiegel.de

The Advance of Designer Viruses in Agriculture
spiegel.de

The Air Force Is Deploying Its First Drone-Killing Microwave Weapon
popularmechanics.com

Fidel’s Cuba is long gone
theconversation.com

Woman discovers Renaissance masterpiece in her kitchen
theguardian.com

Hubble Showcases New Portrait of Jupiter
sci.esa.int

The Dark Side of Light
theatlantic.com

Video: NASA’s Guide To Black Hole Safety [2:39]
youtube.com

Image: Sand Dunes Thawing on Mars
apod.nasa.gov

The girl in the box: the mysterious crime that shocked Germany
theguardian.com

Image: Gorgeous new hi-res image of Mars from the cloud-covered north pole to the cratered terrain in the south
esa.int

Troops Could Have Night Vision Injected Into Their Eyes
popularmechanics.com