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The Secrets of the Sarcophagus Dealer

theatlantic.com

·2d·Hacker News, r/longform

The Final Hours

theatlantic.com

·2d

Benjamin Franklin Styled Lady Liberty’s Look in This Medal He Commissioned to Honor American and French Allies in the Revolutionary War

smithsonianmag.com·2d

The Engineering of Copper Extraction

youtube.com·5d·Hacker News

NASA debuts radiation-hardened chip with 500x more power than current space processors

interestingengineering.com·3d

The global sand crisis: it’s being used up faster than it can be replaced

theguardian.com·3d

We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age

noemamag.com·3d

Pilot Whales Have to “Yell” to Be Heard Over Ships in the Strait of Gibraltar

discovermagazine.com·3d

‘Forced to preserve a monument’: how the fate of Marilyn Monroe’s LA home became a legal saga

theguardian.com·5d

The story of the first human tool: the humble container

newscientist.com·4d

My Life as a Sex Worker at a Nevada Brothel

esquire.com·11w·r/Longreads, r/longform

How Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets

quantamagazine.org·4d·Hacker News, r/crypto

Fade to black: inside the US’s abandoned movie theatres

theguardian.com·4d

The Pentagon Just Released Over a Hundred UFO Files. Here's What We Found Inside

Key bridge linking North Korea and Russia almost finished, satellite images show

NASA's Artemis 2 commander and astrophotographer team up to capture breathtaking, never-before-seen shots of the moon's far side

·6d

On this day in 1944 the Allies began their final assault on Monte Cassino with the assistance of a 500-pound brown bear

damninteresting.com·3d

This Substance Is 1,000 Times More Potent Than the World’s Spiciest Pepper — and It Could Provide Pain Relief

discovermagazine.com·4d

The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there

How a one-of-a-kind robot led researchers deep into the Great Pyramid

nationalgeographic.com·4d

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