interesting links roundup #14
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- AI Is a Lot of Work
- Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
- Creature of the Late Afternoon
- Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin
- Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
- The elements of scientific style
- Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease
- How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
- In what specific way are you annoying?
- Is Food Really Better in Europe?
- It’s True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain
- A Medical-History Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains [heads up for a few not-too-gruesome pics of preserved human specimens]
- The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system
- The Nonmachinables
- Occasional paper: The impossible predicament of the death newts
- Omnimax
- The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology
- The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell
- SiIvaGunner Is An Elaborate Game Music Joke Collective And One Of The Best Parts Of YouTube
- The Succession Battle For A Prison Empire
- This Is Your Priest on Drugs
- Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE
- The Undersea Art Gallery That Ensnares Illegal Trawlers
- We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
- What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English
- Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code page 437?