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Scientists used loudspeakers to make dead coral reefs sound healthy. Fish flocked to them.
washingtonpost.com

China launches compulsory face scans for new phone users
dw.com

‘People are caught up in magical thinking’: was the oldest woman in the world a fraud?
theguardian.com

A Better Social Media World Is Waiting for Us
nytimes.com

Video: The relative sizes of astronomical objects [5:07]
youtube.com

Leonardo da Vinci’s Unexamined Life as a Painter
theatlantic.com

The bonkers, bristly story of how big toothbrush took over the world
wired.co.uk

Scientists Recreated Volcanic Lightning by Blasting Ash Out of a Cannon
gizmodo.com

Streamlined design: speed becomes style
vam.ac.uk

How unique Michigan schoolhouse with 6 students has survived 113 years
freep.com

Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons
quantamagazine.org

Gallery: National Geographic’s 100 best photos of 2019
nationalgeographic.com

Reptiles known as ‘living rocks’ show surprising cognitive powers
nature.com

A storied bank helped Eastern European bankers loot their own institutions.
occrp.org

The fall and rise of a spyware empire
technologyreview.com

Canada town of Asbestos, Quebec, looks for new name
bbc.com • (see also)

‘Extraordinary’ black hole weighs in at 70 solar masses
physicsworld.com • Or not

In photo of a 9-year-old girl, a Houston man found his daughter – and a new life
houstonchronicle.com

Mysterious tectonic fault zone found off California
nationalgeographic.com

Life Recovers in a Geological Blink of an Eye after an Armageddon Event
airspacemag.com

Does Who You Are at 7 Determine Who You Are at 63?
nytimes.com

How Peru’s potato museum could stave off world food crisis
theguardian.com • (see also)

Siberia: 18,000-year-old frozen ‘dog’ stumps scientists
bbc.com

Why ageing should be classified as a disease
theconversation.com

There Might Be Cracks in the Universe — But We Can’t See Them from Earth
livescience.com

Archive of blood: how photographer Letizia Battaglia shot the mafia and lived
theguardian.com

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle
foreignpolicy.com

For The New York Times’ Sarah Maslin Nir, covering the Macy’s Parade is a life-affirming tradition
poynter.org

She’s in charge of Canada’s first ‘body farm’ and yes, she knows that’s creepy
thestar.com • (see also)

Original tomb raider: was Tutankhamun buried in someone else’s grave?
theguardian.com

Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving On The 4th Thursday Of November
npr.org

China’s Dead Sea Is a Visual Feast
atlasobscura.com

3 kids. 2 paychecks. No home.
story.californiasunday.com

Only eat oysters in months with an ‘r’? Rule of thumb is at least 4,000 years old
floridamuseum.ufl.edu

Are podcasts a disaster waiting to happen?
theguardian.com • (see also)

New image offers close-up view of interstellar comet
news.yale.edu

Immigration officials set up a fake university in Detroit, enticed hundreds of foreign students to enroll, accepted their tuition, then deported them
freep.com

Is This the First Fossil of an Embryo?
nytimes.com

Cryptocurrency Will Not Die
gq.com

What happened after an explosion at a Russian disease research lab called VECTOR?
thebulletin.org • (see also)

Mysterious Radio Signal Hints at New Type of Star System
realclearscience.com

Russian cows get VR headsets ‘to reduce anxiety’
bbc.com

Image: Hoag’s Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy
apod.nasa.gov

New leaf-toed geckos found living on remote volcano
nationalgeographic.com

Ponzi Schemes, Private Yachts, and a Missing $250 Million in Crypto: The Strange Tale of Quadriga
vanityfair.com

This Is Why The ‘X17’ Particle And A New, Fifth Force Probably Don’t Exist
forbes.com

Video: LIFE BEYOND: Chapter 1. Alien life, deep time, and our place in cosmic history [30:25]
youtube.com

CERN’s Oldest Particle Accelerator Is Still Running 60 Years Later
gizmodo.com

50 years ago the Rolling Stones headlined a ‘West Coast Woodstock.’ It ended the ’60s with darkness and death.
washingtonpost.com

That Time Animators Brought a Guillotine to the Disney Labor Strike in 1941
paleofuture.gizmodo.com • (see also)

To Train Foreign Service Agents, You Must Build a Fake Town
wired.com

Someone put dead cats in these walls, but to what end?
laphamsquarterly.org

‘Growing Up in the Midst of a Low-Level Civil War’
crimereads.com

There has never been a better time to start a small space agency
technologyreview.com

An alien comet from another star is soaring through our solar system
washingtonpost.com

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Storm Isn’t Dying Anytime Soon
space.com

Study: Cryptocurrency mining harms human health as surely as traditional mining
anthropocenemagazine.org

‘They’re profiting off pain’: the push to rein in the $1.2bn prison phone industry
theguardian.com

Three Baltimore men exonerated after serving 36 years in prison for teen’s murder
cbsnews.com

How our dreams prepare us to face our fears
unige.ch