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Video: An entire engine rebuild filmed in stop-motion [9:35]
youtube.com

The latest episode of the Damn Interesting Week podcast is out now: Licky Vape Pen
damninteresting.com

Why Titanic’s first call for help wasn’t an SOS signal
nationalgeographic.com

The Business of Building Utopia
outsideonline.com

Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
quantamagazine.org

How Napoleon Bonaparte’s delayed funeral came to be
laphamsquarterly.org

Lessons From Operation “Denver,” the KGB’s Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Venus Exploration Starts in the Lab
eos.org

Funerals in space: The people who send their ashes into orbit
cnet.com

Why NASA Set up Shop in Russia’s Forbidden Star City
messynessychic.com

Mining Company Blows Up 46,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Site, Expresses No Regrets
earther.gizmodo.com

Gold rush, mercury legacy: Small-scale mining for gold has produced long-lasting toxic pollution, from 1860s California to modern Peru
theconversation.com

Scientists confirm the presence of a roughly Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, our sun’s nearest stellar neighbor
unige.ch

World’s largest all-electric aircraft set for first flight
theguardian.com

How America’s Proxy Wars in Indonesia and Brazil Set the Stage for the Next 50 Years
lithub.com • (see also)

How the free press worldwide is under threat
theguardian.com

Why did a loon stab a bald eagle through the heart?
nationalgeographic.com

Mysterious ‘Fermi Bubbles’ may be the result of black hole indigestion 6 million years ago
livescience.com

Mice on Acid
nautil.us

The Uprising of 60,000 Jamaicans That Changed the Very Nature of Revolt
zocalopublicsquare.org

“It’s Like a Burning Theater, and Everyone Is Trying to Get To the Door”: Oil Traders on the Day Prices Went Negative
vanityfair.com

Galactic crash may have triggered Solar System formation
sci.esa.int

The trolley problem problem
aeon.co

The Black Investigator Who Went Undercover as a White Man in the Jim Crow South
narratively.com

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later
thewalrus.ca

On this day in 1962 workers in Pennsylvania accidentally sparked a fire that still burns today
damninteresting.com

The Detective Aboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover
jpl.nasa.gov

Livestream: The first-ever launch of astronauts from a private company, and the first launch of astronauts from US soil since 2011
youtube.com • Postponed

Where Do Eels Come From?
newyorker.com

The Museum Director Who Defied the Nazis
smithsonianmag.com

Video: The Cosmic Lasers That Form in Outer Space [6:25]
youtube.com

The Curious Saga of the Ukulele
saturdayeveningpost.com

One mystery solves another: Fast radio bursts detect missing matter
newatlas.com

In the 1950s, Hundreds of People Started Hallucinating Visions of Hell
vice.com • (see also)

America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
theatlantic.com

How polar explorers survived months of isolation without cracking
nationalgeographic.com

New material could be used to make a liquid metal robot
physicsworld.com

Strange New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered by Astronomers
scitechdaily.com

Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Hint at New Particles
quantamagazine.org

How Dynamite Shaped The World
popularmechanics.com • (see also)

The Strange Saga of the Rogue Kentucky Constables Who Arrested an FBI Agent
thedailybeast.com

When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
obscuritory.com

Dinosaur asteroid’s trajectory was ‘perfect storm’
bbc.com

‘The big show’: US poised to return to human spaceflight with historic launch
theguardian.com

Why astronomers now doubt there is an undiscovered 9th planet in our solar system
phys.org

‘Vigorous’ magnetic field oddity spotted over South Atlantic
livescience.com

The ghetto and the mansion
the-tls.co.uk

The man in the iron lung
theguardian.com

The haunting of Girlstown
vox.com

The Comedy Culture War: A new wave of comics is rejecting stand-up’s tired tropes
thewalrus.ca

Ancient Egyptian coffins and mystery of ‘black goo’
blog.britishmuseum.org

From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, 9-year-old dreams of becoming youngest grandmaster
espn.com

Scratching the surface: drones cast new light on mystery of Nazca Lines
theguardian.com

80 years ago today the ‘Crypt of Civilization’ was sealed, scheduled to be opened again in 6,177 years
damninteresting.com

The Astronaut Wives Know Exactly What to Expect
theatlantic.com

Maybe a Fleet of Tiny Spacecraft Could Help Detect a Primordial Black Hole Planet 9
universetoday.com

The China tea trade was a paradox of global capitalism
aeon.co

A gallery of the almost alien organisms living among us
sciencenorway.no

Gina DeJesus has come a long way in the seven years since she was freed from nearly a decade of captivity
missingkids.org

Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network
wired.com