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Meet Maria Sibylla Merian, the naturalist who painted insects in living color
massivesci.com

How This Bacterial Toxin Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens Like MRSA
blogs.discovermagazine.com

The Big Bang Probably Happened Because of Turbulence
popularmechanics.com

Photos: Delhi’s Toxic Sky
theatlantic.com

NASA’s TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets – and is poised to find thousands more
theconversation.com

Do We Need a Special Language to Talk to Aliens?
wired.com • (see also)

The Legend of The Lost Cement Mine
amusingplanet.com

Video: Could Anti-gravity Really be Possible? [14:24]
youtube.com

How Stalin and the Soviet Union Created a Champagne for the Working Class
atlasobscura.com • (see also)

The ‘Three-Body Problem’ Has Perplexed Astronomers Since Newton Formulated It. A.I. Just Cracked It in Under a Second.
livescience.com

The Potential Consequences of Lucid Dreaming
realclearscience.com • (see also)

In ancient Rome, citizenship was the path to power
nationalgeographic.com

The Unlikely Second Life of Baseball’s Steroids Savant
theatlantic.com

The Big Bitcoin Heist
vanityfair.com

MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air
news.mit.edu

In the 17th Century, Leibniz Dreamed of a Machine That Could Calculate Ideas
spectrum.ieee.org • (see also)

Why is ice so slippery?
phys.org

Woman Gets Parasitic Worms in Her Eyes After a Trail Run
livescience.com

Why Do Parrots Waste So Much Food?
nytimes.com

Rare genetic mutations protected a woman from developing Alzheimer’s
qz.com

Detection of a strange particle
nature.com

What Shape Is the Universe? A New Study Suggests We’ve Got It All Wrong
quantamagazine.org

On The Halls-Mills Murders, (a) Crime of the Century
crimereads.com

One Hundred Years Ago, Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity Baffled the Press and the Public
smithsonianmag.com

Daylight saving time is bad for your health
massivesci.com

This Arctic Community Is Literally Falling Into the Ocean
vice.com

Voyager 2’s First Reports from Interstellar Space Surprise Scientists
blogs.discovermagazine.com

Video: When Florida had a committee to terrorize gay people [11:56]
vox.com • (see also)

Homicide is declining around the world – but why?
theconversation.com

Where Do Hippos Wander? An Aquatic Mystery, Solved
wired.com

How a Fruit Basket From Mao Made China Mad for Mangoes
atlasobscura.com

Look Before You Leap: Seeing what’s right in front of us in portraits from the past
laphamsquarterly.org

Gallery: The Model Book of Calligraphy (ca. 1596)
flashbak.com

When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
newyorker.com • (see also)

Mathematicians Cut Apart Shapes to Find Pieces of Equations
quantamagazine.org

Whatever happened to the Berlin Wall?
theguardian.com

‘I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too.’
nytimes.com

From dung beetles to seals, these animals navigate by the stars
nationalgeographic.com

The IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence Over Free File Program
propublica.org

The world’s oldest-known recipes decoded
bbc.com

Why Ireland’s Pub Owners Have Long Moonlighted as Undertakers
atlasobscura.com

‘In the 1960s, the US Decided My Tribe Was No Longer a Nation’
lithub.com

Meet Erika the Red: Viking women were warriors too, say scientists
theguardian.com

Moving from prison to a PhD
nature.com

Illegal loggers kill Amazon indigenous warrior who guarded forest, wound another
reuters.com • (see also)

Does Catnip Really Make Cats ‘High’?
livescience.com • (see also)

‘Alarming’ loss of insects and spiders recorded
bbc.com

Research Shows That Doing a Bad Job Wrapping Presents Will Make a Person Like Your Gift Even More
gizmodo.com

In Jakarta’s cemeteries they’re stacking the dead six-deep
theguardian.com

Video: Ten Thousand Years of Eruptions in Less Than Two Minutes [1:59]
youtube.com

A tiny, uninhabitable islet in the North Atlantic has become an unlikely battleground in the fight for fishing rights
hakaimagazine.com

She Invented Banana Ketchup & Saved Thousands of Lives. Why Have We Never Heard of Her?
food52.com

Cryptocurrency mining now uses more of of Iceland’s electricity than its homes
wired.com

‘Not our mission’: private fire crews protect the insured, not the public
theguardian.com

How to Live Safely With Grizzly Bears
theatlantic.com

On the unreliability of alcohol breath tests
nytimes.com

Microsoft Japan’s experiment with 3-day weekend boosts worker productivity by 40 percent
soranews24.com

The Wild Ones
magazine.atavist.com

Living Skin Can Now be 3D-Printed With Blood Vessels Included
news.rpi.edu

Indonesian man flogged after breaking adultery law he helped draw up
theguardian.com