‘An escape from dark times’: how ancient history podcasts bring comfort and clarity

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/05/an-escape-from-dark-times-how-ancient-history-podcasts-bring-comfort-and-clarity

The Veluwemeer Aqueduct: Netherland's Unique Water Bridge

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The Veluwemeer Aqueduct: Netherland's Unique Water Bridge

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Real Life Resurrections: Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years Come Back to Life

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Your Guide to Products and Technologies That Are Pseudoscience

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Escape the City: Essentials to Build Your Way Into the Off-Grid Life

https://interestingengineering.com/escape-the-city-essentials-to-build-your-way-into-the-off-grid-life

THE GUARDIAN: String theorist Michio Kaku: 'Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea'

String theorist Michio Kaku: 'Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea'
The physicist on Newton finding inspiration amid the great plague, how the multiverse can unite religions, and why a 'theory of everything' is within our grasp

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Ancient genomes trace the origin and decline of the Scythians

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-ancient-genomes-decline-scythians.html

Your Brain Has 'Zombie' Cells That Actually Grow After You Die

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Scientists Might Have Just Stumbled Upon a New Kind of Physics

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35917019/large-hadron-collider-new-physics/

The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age | History | Air & Space Magazine

https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/wright-brothers-invention-aerial-age-180977308/

DAILY MAIL: Scientists discover details of vision vary from person to person

Scientists discover details of vision vary from person to person
Researchers at University of California Berkeley found natural variation in the inherent visual ability to our ability to pinpoint the exact location and size of objects.

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'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions

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National Geographic: Mysterious crocodile relative may have walked on two legs

Mysterious crocodile relative may have walked on two legs
Odd fossil footprints once attributed to a pterosaur seem to actually belong to a croc-like animal that lived more than 110 million years ago.

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Popular Mechanics: How the Obscure Science of Rubbing Built the Past and Will Shape the Future

How the Obscure Science of Rubbing Built the Past and Will Shape the Future
From plate tectonics to knee replacements, tribology plays a big part in our world—and barely anybody knows about it.

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The Ancient Greeks’ 6 Words for Love (And Why Knowing Them Can Change Your Life) - Yes! Magazine

https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2013/12/28/the-ancient-greeks-6-words-for-love-and-why-knowing-them-can-change-your-life

The Ancient Greeks’ 6 Words for Love (And Why Knowing Them Can Change Your Life) - Yes! Magazine

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Exercise Scientists Say One 23-Minute Workout a Week Is Nearly as Effective as Three--but There Is One Catch

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Humanity's Origin Story Just Got More Complicated

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In Exactly A Year Our Knowledge Of The Cosmos Will Change Forever. This Is The $10 Billion Reason

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/03/29/in-exactly-a-year-our-knowledge-of-the-cosmos-will-change-forever-this-is-the-10-billion-reason/

Exercise Scientists Say One 23-Minute Workout a Week Is Nearly as Effective as Three--but There Is One Catch

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Machine Design 101: Pulleys and Counterweights

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Machine Design 101: Pulleys and Counterweights

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Two Famous Real-Life Treasure Hunts, One Is Still Waiting to be Found

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Smithsonian Magazine: The Meanings Behind Words for Emotions Aren't Universal, Study Finds

The Meanings Behind Words for Emotions Aren't Universal, Study Finds
Certain emotions may be universal. But the way humans describe their feelings, it seems, is not

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Forbes: Stunning ‘Northern Lights’ Revealed In Final Images Of Saturn From NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft

Stunning 'Northern Lights' Revealed In Final Images Of Saturn From NASA's Cassini Spacecraft
Cassini plunged into Saturn's atmosphere in September 2017, but not before sending back high-resolution photos of the planet's ultraviolet aurorae.

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National Geographic: 'Extremely rare’ Assyrian carvings discovered in Iraq

'Extremely rare' Assyrian carvings discovered in Iraq
Stone reliefs more than 2,700 years old date to the reign of the mighty King Sargon II.

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Scientists discover whale which is 25 years OLDER than America

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2,700-Year-Old Town From One of Ancient World's Major Powers Revealed by Archaeologists

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Grunge: The truth about the Sea Peoples who terrorized the ancient world

The truth about the Sea Peoples who terrorized the ancient world
The Sea Peoples would be a bit miffed to learn that today, thousands of years after they terrorized the ancient world, almost no one remembers them. But the Sea Peoples did exist, and yes their name sounds kind of stupid. Here's the truth about the Sea Peoples who terrorized the ancient world.

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Archaeologists find evidence of Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem -- as told in the Bible

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Master plan of the universe revealed in new galaxy maps

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A Decades-Old Computer Science Puzzle Was Solved in Two Pages

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Mysterious medieval warrior found in Viking graveyard wasn't actually a Viking

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Ancient Egypt: Underwater Archaeologists Uncover Destroyed Temple in the Sunken City of Heracleion

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-underwater-cities-sunken-cities-temple-coins-jewelry-archaeology-1450695?utm_source=GoogleNewsstandTech&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Partnerships

Road-tripping couple was murdered near Canada's notorious "highway of tears"

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Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley: New clue could explain its mysterious disappearance - CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/us/civil-war-submarine-hunley-clue-trnd/index.html

Business Insider: 15 times the heirs to massive fortunes disappeared under mysterious or disturbing circumstances

15 times the heirs to massive fortunes disappeared under mysterious or disturbing circumstances
The harrowing 1973 abduction of John Paul Getty III has inspired numerous films and books. Kidnappers looking for a major payout will often target the heirs of wealthy individuals. Some famous abductions have ended in tragedy when the abductors killed their victim. In other cases, the kidnapped heir survived their ordeal. A handful of heirs have simply never been found. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Namely, having a familial link to an uber-wealthy person could prompt an

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Horizon magazine: Island cores unravel mysteries of ancient Maltese civilisation

Island cores unravel mysteries of ancient Maltese civilisation
The Ġgantija temples of Malta are among the earliest free-standing buildings known. Sedimentary records may also reveal past ecosystems on Tenerife. The mysteries of an ancient civilisation that survived for more than a millennium on the island of Malta – and then collapsed within two generations – have been unravelled by archaeologists who analysed pollen buried deep within the earth and ancient DNA from skulls and bones. It's part of a field of work that is expanding the use of archaeological

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Smithsonian Magazine: Ancient DNA Sheds New Light on the Biblical Philistines

Ancient DNA Sheds New Light on the Biblical Philistines
A team of scientists sequenced genomes from people who lived in a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel between the 12th and 8th centuries B.C.

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One of the World’s Most Ancient Cities Experienced Surprisingly Modern Problems

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This Bizarre Whale Is a Beluga-Narwhal Hybrid

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Newsweek: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Backed up by Quantum Physics Experiment

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Backed up by Quantum Physics Experiment
June 17, 2019 Quantum particles are not really just particles…they are also waves. The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there's something out there in the world that we are uncertain about. But most physicists believe nature itself is uncertain. Intrinsic uncertainty was central to the way German physicist Werner Heisenberg, one of the originators of modern quantum mechanics, presented the theory. He put forward the Uncertainty

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Maybe we are alone after all: Planets that could sustain alien life much rarer than thought

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/11/planets-habitable-zone-alien-life-much-rarer-than-thought/1422413001/

Do Math in Your Head With These Mental Math Tricks

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