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On the troubling trail of psychiatry’s pseudopatients stunt
nature.com • (see also)

Ray Bradbury’s FBI Files : Murder, Lists And Commie Science Fiction
flashbak.com

Photographing the Dark: Nadar’s Descent into the Paris Catacombs
publicdomainreview.org

Perceptions of Musical Octaves Are Learned, Not Wired in the Brain
quantamagazine.org

Caught in a love triangle, teens hatched a murder plot. It couldn’t have gone worse.
sfgate.com

NASA’s Voyager Missions Were Amazing. Now Scientists Want a True Interstellar Probe
space.com • (see also)

How long space voyages could mess with our minds
bbc.com

Russia finds new Arctic islands amid great power competition with US
businessinsider.com • (see also)

New Lithium Ion Battery Design Could Allow Electric Vehicles to Be Charged in Ten Minutes
realclearscience.com

Meet the neuroscientist debunking the age-old myth of the gendered brain
thenextweb.com

Scientists Demonstrate Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans
scientificamerican.com

Life on the Zambezi Is Hard. The Climate Crisis Is Making It Deadly
bloomberg.com

The DNA database used to find the Golden State Killer is a national security leak waiting to happen
technologyreview.com

What lies beneath
vox.com • (see also)

DC-X: The NASA Rocket That Inspired SpaceX and Blue Origin
blogs.discovermagazine.com

The Cirrus Vision Is the Private Jet That Lands Itself
popularmechanics.com • (From 2005)

Satellites Track the World’s Longest Lightning Bolt
earther.gizmodo.com • (see also)

The Weird Weather Fanning the Flames in California
thedailybeast.com • (see also)

On this day in 1961 the Soviet Union detonated the most powerful bomb ever constructed
damninteresting.com

Image: Jupiter’s Cloud Tops: From High to Low
nasa.gov

The Super-Optimized Dirt That Helps Keep Racehorses Safe
wired.com • (see also)

The Mischievous ‘Ghost Hoaxers’ of 19th-Century Australia
atlasobscura.com • (see also)

This Is Why Einstein’s Greatest Blunder Really Was A Tremendous Mistake
forbes.com

The Debatable Land of Fungi
laphamsquarterly.org

King Tutankhamun: How a tomb cast a spell on the world
bbc.com • (see also)

The SpaceX Starship is a very big deal
caseyhandmer.wordpress.com

This deep-sea fish’s expandable stomach can hold huge meals
nationalgeographic.com

Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
qz.com

Just thinking about bright objects changes the size of your pupils
newscientist.com • (see also)

Video: A 108-Year-Old Woman Recalls What It Was Like to Be a Woman in Victorian England [3:38]
openculture.com

Students in Hong Kong used fax machines to fight Chinese censorship of Tiananmen Square
qz.com • (see also)

NASA’s Latest Exoplanet Posters Are a Halloween Treat
jpl.nasa.gov • (see also)

Why we love big, blood-curdling screams
theconversation.com

A Painting Hanging Outside a French Woman’s Kitchen For Decades Just Sold at Auction for $26.8 Million
gizmodo.com

Some spots on Earth are too hostile for life
sciencemag.org

Zombie flu: How the 1919 influenza pandemic fueled the rise of the living dead
theconversation.com

Bees, Please: Stop Dying in Your Martian Simulator
wired.com

The Abandoned Mansions of Bishops Avenue
amusingplanet.com

The Royal Image Goes Pear-Shaped
laphamsquarterly.org

Homemade ‘pipe bomb’ caused accidental death at gender-reveal party
theguardian.com • (see also)

Is it OK if someone wants to live for years on a bench?
bbc.com

Curiosity Rover Finds a Clay Cache on Mars
apod.nasa.gov

An 18th-century guide to hunting vampires inspired the first works of vampire fiction
nationalgeographic.com

It Was Supposed to Be the Safest Building in the World. Then It Cracked.
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

Deadly Algae Are Creeping Northward
theatlantic.com

50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420
fastcompany.com

Chicks born with ability to distinguish and avoid different dangers
phys.org

Tense Debates Before Challenger Shuttle Disaster Revealed in PBS ‘Retro Report’
space.com

This Newly Discovered Virus Replicates in a Completely Unknown Way
livescience.com

Scientists crack mystery of bird eggs’ colour variation
theguardian.com

The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
propublica.org

Candy Crush: Junk food companies use internet nostalgia as unpaid research and development
reallifemag.com • (see also)

Can you really “deradicalize” a terrorist?
technologyreview.com

The Apology Letter
washingtonpost.com

These Worm-Like Robots Could One Day Build Spaceships
popularmechanics.com

Mysterious Asteroid May Actually Be the Smallest Dwarf Planet in the Solar System
gizmodo.com

Photographer Richard Parry shows the innovation of consumer tech from the inside out
theverge.com

‘I’m Part of the 0.1 Percent and I Want a Wealth Tax’
thewalrus.ca

Here’s Why People Tend To Eat More When With Friends And Family
digest.bps.org.uk • (see also)

Al-Baghdadi’s death: the rise and fall of the leader of Islamic State
theconversation.com