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How a Band of Surfer Dudes Pulled Off the Biggest Jewel Heist in N.Y. History
nytimes.com

Former Nazi concentration camp guard on trial in Hamburg
dw.com • (see also)

Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors
washingtonpost.com

Skeleton unearthed beneath California peak
sfgate.com

A Very Reflective Look at Doppelgängers
melmagazine.com

Bitcoin surveillance helped feds take down a massive child abuse site
technologyreview.com

How the Little Ice Age ushered in the modern world
laphamsquarterly.org • (see also)

Plant ‘takes’ botanical world’s first selfie in London Zoo experiment
bbc.com

Ancient Assyrian Tablets Seem to Contain References to a Massive Solar Storm
gizmodo.com

A Natural Land Bridge on The Moon
amusingplanet.com

205 years ago today a deadly wave of beer swept through a London parish
damninteresting.com

House adjacent to meat-packing plant finds basement flooded with blood
gizmodo.com

In fire-prone California, many residents can’t afford wildfire insurance
theconversation.com • (see also)

Gallery: The Quest to Get Photos of the USSR’s First Space Shuttle
wired.com

The Little-Known ‘Slow Fire’ That’s Destroying All Our Books
lithub.com

Don’t Ever Travel Down A Wormhole. You’ll Die
forbes.com

The problem of the punctured heart
wellcomecollection.org

Happier Babies Have an Edge
blogs.scientificamerican.com

What it’s like to bring up a baby in a war zone
1843magazine.com

Ottoman cosmopolitanism and the myth of the sectarian Middle East
aeon.co

Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

The China Connection: How One D.E.A. Agent Cracked a Global Fentanyl Ring
nytimes.com

‘A body drifted past the window’: surviving the Ladbroke Grove train crash
theguardian.com

Silver ants can run their body length in less than a hundredth of a second—the equivalent of a human running 400mph
nationalgeographic.com

Study: Why humans have a perennial tendency to denigrate kids
advances.sciencemag.org • (see also)

The ‘blob’: zoo showcases slime mold with 720 sexes that can heal itself in minutes
theguardian.com

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
propublica.org

Why You Keep Dreaming About Being Naked
nautil.us

New seismic phenomenon discovered, named stormquakes
nationalgeographic.com

Why Did This Man’s Taste Buds Disappear?
livescience.com

The Exquisite Precision of Time Crystals
scientificamerican.com

How gambling built baseball – and then almost destroyed it
theconversation.com

What a Warrior’s Lost Toolkit Says About the Oldest Known Battle in Europe
smithsonianmag.com

The US military is trying to read minds
technologyreview.com

J.S. Bach the Rebel
laphamsquarterly.org • (see also)

Meet the super robots that are about to lap the world’s fastest humans
popularmechanics.com

Why the guillotine may be less cruel than execution by slow poisoning
theconversation.com • (see also)

Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet
hubblesite.org • Video

55 years ago today China detonated its first a-bomb, so US spies installed a spy camera atop the Himalayas
damninteresting.com

“A person’s lifetime chance of having been arrested, the study found, is directly proportional with the darkness of their skin.”
qz.com

The curious case of the house with no knocker
newatlas.com

Faster-Than-Light Travel Could Explain Mysterious Signals Beaming Through the Cosmos
livescience.com

People are reporting sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, thought to be extinct
edition.cnn.com

The Stereotype Of The Narcissistic Only Child Is Widespread — But It’s Wrong
digest.bps.org.uk

Million-Degree Experiment Complicates Solar Science
eos.org

NASA’s New Spacesuits Unveiled, for Trips to the Moon and Beyond
nytimes.com

How Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick The Habit
npr.org

A royal obsession with black magic started Europe’s most brutal witch hunts
nationalgeographic.com

“You Are to Stand Down”: Ronan Farrow’s Producer on How NBC Killed Its Weinstein Story
vanityfair.com

Scenes From the Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan
theatlantic.com

How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries
quantamagazine.org

The Lines of Code That Changed Everything
slate.com

Are cloth diapers really any better for the environment, your wallet, or your baby?
vox.com

Bootleg film shows Florida prison in all its danger, squalor. An inmate shot it on the sly
miamiherald.com

Six freed after years living in Dutch cellar ‘waiting for end of time’
theguardian.com

The flu virus treats the altered immune systems of pregnant individuals as its training ground to get stronger
massivesci.com

A robot hand taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube after creating its own training regime
technologyreview.com

Mind the Secret Bunker
laphamsquarterly.org

Malware That Spits Cash Out of ATMs Has Spread Across the World
vice.com • (see also)

Before Disneyland Paris, there was Human Roulette and Drag Balls at the Lost “Magic City”
messynessychic.com