April already? How did that happen? 
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- Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery - ”Elvira and her brothers, Ricard and Ramón, were left at a train station in Barcelona aged two, four and five. As an adult, when Elvira decided to look for her parents, she discovered a family history wilder than anything she had imagined.” A remarkable story
- A day in the life of an oak tree, from mistle thrush in the morning to mice at midnigh - ”Among their deceptively inert branches, trees shelter feathered Pavarottis, scuttling beetles, opportunistic fungi and fierce owls. John Lewis-Stempel recounts a day in the life of an oak and the creatures that call it home.” Busy places, trees
- The Panopticon Effect - The unusual former prison in the Dutch town of Breda: ”Inside the building, there’s a wide-open circular hall the size of half a football field with the sprawling dome overhead. Along the curved brick walls, there are hundreds of heavy orange doors spread out evenly across the four floors… When this place was first built in 1886, it was a penitentiary. But not a typical one. This was a panopticon.”
- PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future - ”Forums, instant messaging, and multiplayer video games all started here.” Sounds like it has a lot to answer for
- The Thrill — And The Mystery — Of A 1970s Bell Labs AI Chatbot Known As ‘Red Father’ - ”In its heyday, AT&T’s Bell Labs was the center of innovation, akin to Silicon Valley today. With AI chatbots in the news, I wondered what happened to a now-vanished early version I used at the famed research institution’s New Jersey offices.” Everything old is new again
- The final flight of the B29 Over Exposed bomber that crashed in Bleaklow - ”Detailing the fate of US Air Force Boeing RB-29A Superfortress, which came down in the Peak District in adverse weather conditions in 1948.” The remains of the plane are up there to this day.
- ‘F*** me, Doris!’ How’s that for a dog’s dick kicker? Press Gazette’s guide to journalism jargon - ”From flongs to fudgeboxes and clickbait to cookies. An A-Z of UK journalism jargon.” Handy guide to whatever it is journalists are going on about.
- Medieval Muslims were so much nicer to their cats - ”Cats didn’t always have it so easy in the medieval West… Their cousins in the east, however, were luckier. In fact, it sounds like was pretty great to be a medieval Muslim cat.”
- The British Rail Sandwich - American sandwich aficionado Jim Behymer tries to work out what the British Rail sandwich thing is all about: ”How does a British cultural reference that’s 20 years out of date end up on the List of Sandwiches that I had, until now, presumed were meant to be eaten? For the click-disinclined, before British train lines were privatized beginning in 1994, they were managed by a single corporate entity known as British Rail, who were famous for selling terrible sandwiches. Or at least, people made jokes about their terrible sandwiches.”
- We Are Tracing Film And Television Locations In Their Real-Life Settings, And Here’s What We’ve Got So Far (40 Pics) - Lugdivine & Sabrina search for film locations: ”For several years, we have been traveling around the world and visiting a lot of places. Most of the time, these are touristy places and film and series sets that marked our childhood… We are downright excited at the idea of discovering a place that we have seen in a film or a series.” This scene from Knight and Day (2010) was shot at the Casa de Pilatos in Seville.
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