interesting links roundup #26
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- The Accidental Architect of the Internet’s Brain
- Are Crows Really Our Friends?
- The Benthic Battlefield
- Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured?
- Cleared to Collide: The crash of USAir flight 1493 and SkyWest flight 5569, or the Los Angeles Runway Disaster
- Crash Blossoms
- The Dark Side of Mindfulness
- The Great Floating Homes of Los Angeles
- How the AIDS crisis helped create a multibillion-dollar death-speculation market
- How to survive boiling water
- The Inconvenient Non-Indian
- The invention of the MMO
- The Nazi Anatomists
- ‘No Future’ Parenting
- The oral history of the Dinosaur Input Device or: how to survive the near death of stop-motion
- A Physicist Rigged Hyis Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night
- The Sentence is a Lonely Place
- Signal then storm
- Some Fish in the Great Lakes Might Be More Than 400 Years Old, a Study Suggests, Outliving Around 15 Generations of Humans
- What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
- When Your Digital Life Vanishes
- Why Human Giants Defy the Laws of Physics