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The Man Who Enabled the Holocaust
thedailybeast.com

The U.S. Army Is Testing a ‘Guaranteed Hit’ Smart Scope For Its Rifles
popularmechanics.com

Exactly How Dangerous Is Football?
newyorker.com

Puffins Seen Using Tools, Breaking Dumb-Puffin Stereotypes
daily.jstor.org

We’re Just Scratching the Surface of the Modern Environment’s Effect on Brain Health
lithub.com

An Ancient Australian Volcano Is a Haven for Giant Pink Slugs
atlasobscura.com

Image: Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
apod.nasa.gov

Toy Commercials Are Being Replaced by Something More Nefarious
theatlantic.com

Palindrome Day 20200202
blog.sumymus.de

Study: Sociable people have a higher abundance of certain types of gut bacteria and also more diverse bacteria
ox.ac.uk

Isaac Asimov’s Throwback Literary Legacy
theatlantic.com

100 years ago today researchers published the results of the infamous, disturbing ‘Little Albert’ experiment
damninteresting.com

Could Pablo Escobar’s escaped hippos help the environment?
nationalgeographic.com

‘Deaf’ genius Beethoven was able to hear his final symphony after all
theguardian.com

The Russian Conspiracy Theory That Won’t Die
theatlantic.com

On Saturn’s Moon Titan, Living Cells May Be Very Different From Ours
airspacemag.com

How did the last Neanderthals live?
bbc.com

Whatever Happened to ______ ?
longreads.com

Gallery: Interior Views of the Central Social Institution in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937
vintag.es

British Police Seek “Rightful Owner” of The One Ring
tor.com

9,008 days
m.chicagoreader.com

Dense stars spotted twisting and dragging the spacetime continuum
newatlas.com

On this day in 1953 an extraordinary storm struck the North Sea coasts of Britain and the Netherlands
damninteresting.com

Could Phoenix survive a water crisis?
thecounter.org

No Twin Mustang Has Ever Been Restored…Until Now
airspacemag.com

They survived fire and toxic fumes. So what happened next to Notre Dame’s bees?
theguardian.com

Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.
quantamagazine.org

Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches
sciencemag.org

Why Is Mystery Russian Spacecraft Cosmos 2542 Suddenly Stalking a U.S. Spy Satellite?
thedailybeast.com

Are Humans the Only Musical Species?
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Artists Who Paint With Their Feet Have Unique Brain Patterns
smithsonianmag.com

Researchers Discover “Ghost Worms” Mostly Unchanged Since the Age of Dinosaurs, Despite 140 Million Years of Evolution
scitechdaily.com

New episode of Damn Interesting Week: Leolo
damninteresting.com

Cool Discovery Could Finally Explain Gigantic Ice Rings Found on Siberian Lake
earther.gizmodo.com

A Tiny Glass Bead Goes as Still as Nature Allows
wired.com

Russian Scientists Reveal Plans for Fusion-Fission Reactor
popularmechanics.com

How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains
lithub.com

A deep dive into the Apollo Guidance Computer, and the hack that saved Apollo 14
arstechnica.com

Everyone Has Neanderthal DNA in Their Genome, New Genetic Analysis Shows
discovermagazine.com

Catching a Glimpse of a Dead Loved One on Google Street View
slate.com

After an 80-Year Quest, Scientists Have Almost Certainly Discovered Metallic Hydrogen
gizmodo.com

The Professor Who Smuggled Intellectuals Out of Nazi-Occupied France
lithub.com

Video: The equation that connects dripping faucets, the Mandelbrot set, rabbit populations, and more [18:38]
youtube.com

Egypt’s building a new capital: Inside the smart city in the desert
zdnet.com

Visualizations of global temperatures for the last 2,019 years (the gray areas indicate uncertainty in the measuring)
climate-lab-book.ac.uk • Related

A Not-So-Brief History of Scottish Independence
smithsonianmag.com

Video: Watch a Mathematician Effortlessly Fit a Large Circular Disk Through a Smaller Square Hole [3:23]
mymodernmet.com

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Loneliness, emptiness, and hyper-hygiene – one woman describes life in a city gone quiet
bbc.com • Photos

Authorities in San Diego unearth longest cross-border drug tunnel in history
latimes.com

These lovely little statues enchanted ancient Greece
nationalgeographic.com

Were Neanderthals More Than Cousins to Homo Sapiens?
sapiens.org

The Spine of San Francisco Is Now Car-Free
citylab.com

The American town that floods with raw sewage every time it rains
bostonreview.net

The film tickets that destroyed a family
bbc.com • (see also)

The universe is expanding faster than we expected. These astronomers want to know why.
expmag.com

‘How my wheelchair changed my life’
wellcomecollection.org

The Bittersweet Bounty Of Greenland’s First Spring
gq.com

The Age of Interstellar Visitors
quantamagazine.org

Comedy Written for the Machines
nytimes.com