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How a white mob lynched a Black man, destroyed a city – and got away with it
theguardian.com

He Couldn’t Remember That We Broke Up
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The Story of Songbirds Is a Story of Sugar
theatlantic.com

Team develops quantum simulator with 256 qubits, largest of its kind ever created
phys.org

Goldilocks planets ‘with a tilt’ may develop more complex life
phys.org

Are Some Dogs Geniuses?
realclearscience.com

What fractals, Fibonacci, and the golden ratio have to do with cauliflower
arstechnica.com

‘We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals’
vice.com

How Voltaire Helped Spread the Legend of Europe’s Most Famous Prisoner, The Man in the Iron Mask
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The Pictures That Saved Yellowstone
discovermagazine.com

Electric catfish are immune to their own shocks
massivesci.com

From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOs
theconversation.com

A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake
nytimes.com

How Close Are We To The Holy Grail Of Room-Temperature Superconductors?
forbes.com • (see also)

In 2030, You Won’t Own Any Gadgets
gizmodo.com

Inside the FBI, Russia, and Ukraine’s failed cybercrime investigation
technologyreview.com

Top of the tree: Italian farmers grow world’s biggest ever cherry
theguardian.com

Maine Has a Dangerous, Small, and Very Itchy Problem
theatlantic.com

Mystery Solved: How Plant Cells Know When to Stop Growing
wired.com

What it’s like to live in a world where you are incapable of recognizing faces or places
saturdayeveningpost.com

“A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!” On the Rise and Fall of Radium in the Beauty Industry
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Chickpeas are in peril. Gene editing could save them.
expmag.com

Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
quantamagazine.org

The Bank Robbers Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight (Or Do Anything Right, Really)
narratively.com

The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth
theguardian.com

The Planets with the Giant Diamonds Inside
nautil.us

Scientists Studying Temperature at Which Humans Spontaneously Die With Increasing Urgency
vice.com

Video: Fans; High is next to Off on purpose [17:47]
youtube.com

How deep brain stimulation changes a person’s sense of confidence
aeon.co

The Space Shuttle Engines Will Rise Again
popularmechanics.com

Video: New Lakes Discovered Under Antarctic Ice with NASA’s ICESat-2 [1:55]
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It’s not just bad behavior – why social media design makes it hard to have constructive disagreements online
theconversation.com

Fear of an Insect Planet
daily.jstor.org

This star cluster is slowly being taken over by black holes. In a billion years they’ll kill it.
syfy.com

‘Social’ Mitochondria, Whispering Between Cells, Influence Health
quantamagazine.org

A shadowy birthplace may explain Jupiter’s strange chemistry
sciencenews.org

The U.S. Military Is Testing a Pill That Could Delay Aging
popularmechanics.com

Video: How Taiwan held off Covid-19, until it didn’t [9:40]
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The Croatian village where the land became ‘Swiss cheese’
bbc.com

11-Year-Old Gets Physics Degree, Says He’ll Use It to Attain Technological Immortality
futurism.com

The Pros and Cons of Spiky Genitals
theatlantic.com

Chinese researchers propose deflecting ‘Armageddon’ asteroids with rockets
reuters.com

Methane in the plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life?
phys.org

“Hearing contact lens” claimed to outperform regular hearing aids
newatlas.com

How the Beaches of the South Got There
daily.jstor.org

Did lead poisoning cause downfall of Roman Empire? The jury is still out
arstechnica.com • (see also)

How children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks
bbc.com

Damn.
damninteresting.com

Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)
theguardian.com

Psychedelic spurs growth of neural connections lost in depression
news.yale.edu

China demonstrates most powerful quantum computer
cosmosmagazine.com

Video: How To Terraform Venus (Quickly) [12:47]
youtube.com

Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating planets
phys.org

No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology.
nytimes.com

The AI Wolf That Preferred Suicide Over Eating Sheep
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Microbes that feast on crushed rocks thrive in Antarctica’s ice-covered lakes
livescience.com • (see also)

NASA Mars helicopter pulls off ‘most nerve-wracking flight since Flight 1’
cnet.com

A New Kind of Ransomware Tsunami Hits Hundreds of Companies
wired.com

Solar-Powered Moon Rovers Will Help Scientists Seek Lunar Ice
discovermagazine.com

Video: What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge? [12:54]
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