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150 years of Nature
nature.com

Police to offer first-time speeders timeout instead of fines
news.err.ee

A Prisoner Who Briefly Died Argues That He’s Served His Life Sentence
nytimes.com

China Bans Kids From Playing Games After 10 p.m., Caps Microtransaction Spending
kotaku.com

Battle-Scarred Viking Shield-Maiden Gets Facial Reconstruction for First Time
livescience.com

Gollum-Like Daddy Long-Legs Discovered in the Bowels of the Earth
gizmodo.com

Video: Most Popular Websites 1996 – 2019 [8:25]
youtube.com

World’s deadliest inventor: Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47
theconversation.com

He’s the First African American to Receive a Face Transplant. His Story Could Change Health Care
time.com

The world’s first Gattaca baby tests are finally here
technologyreview.com

The Laser Weapon Is Really, Really Finally Here
foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com

The battle between NBC and CBS to be the first to film a Berlin Wall tunnel escape
theconversation.com

Pyongyang panorama pulls back curtain on city of mystery
theguardian.com

On this day in 1973 workers hauled away the remains of an exceptional tree
damninteresting.com

On Harriet Tubman’s Final Escape Mission
lithub.com

Edmonton paddler discovers 65-million-year-old tree stump during riverbank pee break
cbc.ca

A new way to measure gravity: Using floating atoms
phys.org

Top 4 candidates in our solar system for terraforming
bigthink.com

How big tech is dragging us towards the next financial crash
theguardian.com

‘Noise’ in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals
quantamagazine.org

50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand?
theguardian.com

A ton of people received text messages overnight that were originally sent on Valentine’s Day
theverge.com

80 years ago today a German handyman (and/or time traveller) almost succeeded in assassinating Hitler
damninteresting.com

Why We Need to Map the Ocean Floor
nautil.us

‘I am scared all the time’: Chimps and people are clashing in rural Uganda
nationalgeographic.com

Thousands of rare ‘ice eggs’ found on beach in Finland
theguardian.com

Exotic Pets, Wild Blood, and the Search for Human-Animal Connection
lithub.com

Designing a Moon Suit for the 21st Century
airspacemag.com • (see also)

Imagined movements can alter our brains
medicalxpress.com • (see also)

World War II’s Worst Airplane
airspacemag.com • (see also)

Can a Trip-Free Psychedelic Still Help People With Depression?
vice.com

The Man Whose Face Got Stuck Like That
daily.jstor.org

The Labor Rights Film That Got Both of Its Directors Murdered by the Yakuza
hyperallergic.com

Wind Power Returns to the Shipping Industry
daily.jstor.org

Why was it believed that the Aztecs greeted Cortés as a deity?
laphamsquarterly.org

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum
lithub.com • (see also)

House plants have little effect on indoor air quality, study concludes
newatlas.com • (see also)

NASA Just Opened a Moon Rock Sample Which Has Been Untouched Since Apollo Era More Than 40 Years Ago
newsweek.com

What It Means to Evacuate
slate.com

Sex toys worth £1m stolen from lorry in Northamptonshire
bbc.com

A Million People on Mars May Not Be Wishful Thinking
airspacemag.com • (see also)

An elderly man in Hawaii died after falling into a lava tube hidden in his backyard
washingtonpost.com • (see also)

In case you missed it: We’re looking for an artist to collaborate on a graphic longform project
damninteresting.com

See the Mississippi River’s hidden history, uncovered by lasers
nationalgeographic.com

How Cloudflare Stood up to a Patent Troll – and Won
blog.cloudflare.com

What Would It Take to Unify Korea? Germany Offers Lessons.
theatlantic.com

Secrets in the Brains of People Who Have Committed Murder
the-scientist.com

Grave Matters: On the history of bringing dead American soldiers back home
laphamsquarterly.org

Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence
quantamagazine.org • (see also)

The story of Tunnel 29
bbc.co.uk • (see also)

Spiders and ants inspire metal that won’t sink
phys.org

Dying for a better life: South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons
reuters.com

Inside Ancient Egyptian Cat Mummy, Archaeologists Find the Remains of 3 Cats
livescience.com

Inside the Microsoft team tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers
technologyreview.com

Scientists unlock the chemical secrets of a 19th-century photography technique
arstechnica.com • (see also)

People who lack olfactory bulbs shouldn’t be able to smell. But some women can
sciencenews.org • (see also)

The New Playground of an Unexpected Bose-Einstein Condensate
physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com • (see also)

Plague was around for millennia before epidemics took hold – and the way people lived might be what protected them
theconversation.com

What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics
newyorker.com

The Century Old ‘Dream Mine’ That’s Yet to Produce Gold
amusingplanet.com