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The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
thecorrespondent.com

How the Nile River Has Stayed In One Place for 30 Million Years
blogs.discovermagazine.com

The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s
spiegel.de

Fifty years ago, a passionate scientist’s keen eye led to the first pinpoint landing on the Moon
theconversation.com

Into the abyss: The story of the MV Lyubov Orlova
newsinteractives.cbc.ca

Eventually, Everyone Needs to Urinate
laphamsquarterly.org • (see also)

The Last Victim of Smallpox
amusingplanet.com

Spanking, Signing, Reading: On the Medieval Use of Hands
lithub.com

Google reportedly collects health data on millions of Americans without informing patients
cnet.com

Video: This 1967 educational film predicts the technology we’d be using in the future [1:09]
youtube.com • (see also)

DNA Just One of More Than 1 Million Possible ‘Genetic Molecules,’ Scientists Find
livescience.com

History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future
theguardian.com

This 7,000-year-old woman was among Sweden’s last hunter-gatherers
nationalgeographic.com

Living tree bridges in India stand strong for hundreds of years
nationalgeographic.com

What It’s Really Like to Fight a War
nytimes.com

Why Are People Left- (or Right-) Handed?
livescience.com

A Nile Journey Into the Past
nytimes.com

The Adventures of Eugene Bullard: History’s First African-American Fighter Pilot
crimereads.com

Researchers use CRISPR to eliminate HIV in mice, DNA and all
massivesci.com

Why explosives detectors still can’t beat a dog’s nose
technologyreview.com

How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster
latimes.com

Clean energy technologies threaten to overwhelm the grid. Here’s how it can adapt.
vox.com

The Case Against Boeing
newyorker.com • (see also)

9 Ingenious Smuggling Machines That Beat the Berlin Wall
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

The Origins of the Police
daily.jstor.org

Sesame Street turns 50 and celebrates children’s right to make mistakes
qz.com

Rabbit-sized deer relative, lost to science, found alive in Vietnam
newatlas.com

A will to survive might take AI to the next level
sciencenews.org

Video: ‘I modified my microscope to be able to use polarized light to illuminate my samples’ [5:52]
youtube.com

Ebola vaccine approved in Europe in landmark moment in fight against a deadly disease
statnews.com

NASA Scientists Detect Huge Thermonuclear Blast Deep in Space
sciencealert.com

In this age of never-ending technology upgrades and improvements, the “Original Swiss Army knife” is still a best-seller
qz.com

Bleach Death of Restaurant Manager Can Be Explained By The Simplest Chemical Reaction
acsh.org

The switch that saved a Moon mission from disaster
bbc.com

The Curious Flesh Eating Enzymes in Pineapple and Papaya
thespruceeats.com

There’s No Such Thing as Millennials or Boomers
bloomberg.com

How to Watch Mercury Transit the Sun Today
nytimes.com

If alien life exists in our solar system, it may look like this
nationalgeographic.com

How Elephant Poop Becomes Fancy Paper in Sri Lanka
atlasobscura.com

The 1985 race to get cherry cola onto store shelves first
cbc.ca • (see also)

Kongo Gumi: The 1,400-Year-Old Company
amusingplanet.com

Some Ships Keep Sailing Even After They’re Wrecked
atlasobscura.com • (see also)

NASA Scientist Shows Dinosaurs Roamed Earth on The Other Side of The Milky Way
sciencealert.com

NASA’s charge-dissipating paint provides a potential solution to a dusty problem
digitaltrends.com

Russia’s greatest Napoleonic reenactor was found drunk in a river with the severed arms of his lover in his backpack
washingtonpost.com

Kilometer-Long Space Tether Tests Fuel-Free Propulsion
scientificamerican.com

Survivors recount how SS Athenia steamed into disaster on first night of WW II
cbc.ca

The Most Delicious Foods That No Longer Exist
theatlantic.com

What Happens After A Whale Dies?
npr.org

The Secret Life of a Professional Statue
narratively.com

Video: Neutron Stars — The Most Extreme Things that are not Black Holes [8:40]
youtube.com

Marshall Islands folk artists suffer from cancers. U.S. nukes bear much of the blame
latimes.com

Mercury putting on rare show Monday, parading across the sun
apnews.com

Why the Berlin Wall rose—and how it fell
nationalgeographic.com

Could the world cope if GPS stopped working?
bbc.com

‘It was morally wrong’: the plot to abandon a man 5,000 miles from home
theguardian.com

How two centuries of slave revolts shaped American history
nationalgeographic.com

Galactic fountains and carousels: Order emerging from chaos
mpa-garching.mpg.de

Image: Saturn the Giant
apod.nasa.gov

The Lingering Trauma of Stasi Surveillance
theatlantic.com