Some light reading to pass the time until the weekend, when you get back that hour of sleep that was stolen from you in March 
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- Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González - ”As a Spanish reporter, Pablo González charmed his way into Russian opposition circles and covered Putin’s wars. Then, in 2022, he was arrested on suspicion of espionage. Many former associates now believe that he betrayed them.”
- How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero - ”Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.” Being and nothingness
- The Coming Collision Between Whales and Tankers on British Columbia’s Coast - Whales just can't get an even break: ”Decades after they were hunted to local extinction, fin whales are recovering in the Kitimat fjord system—only to be threatened by a booming LNG industry.”
- 50 exceptionally well-preserved Viking skeletons unearthed in Denmark - ”Archaeologists from Museum Odense have uncovered a remarkable Viking burial site in the Danish village of Åsum, east of Odense, revealing more than 50 exceptionally well-preserved skeletons.” If you see a gang of ghostly Vikings roaming around this Halloween, they may be real
- The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame - ”This is the story of how an army of artisans turned back centuries to restore Notre-Dame by hand, and wound up reviving something even greater than the cathedral itself.” Impressive craftsmanship
- The Weird And Wild Story Behind The Mason-Dixon Line - ”What happens when you put together the world's worst Quaker and a man who named his son Doctor Isaac? You might just change the world.” The story of the mapping of the dividing line between the northern and southern states.
- Future Timeline - ”London-based writer and futurist, William James Fox, started Future Timeline back in 2008. It began as a relatively small and obscure website with a brief list of future predictions. Over the years, however, it expanded to form a lengthy and detailed timeline – running from the present day, through the next century and beyond, all the way to the end of the universe itself.” It won't tell you when the next bus is coming, but it seems to cover just about everything else that is likely to happen
- Height hunt - Adam Townsend is on a mission: ”The height hunt is a quest to find and visit every possible height restriction sign in the UK. There are more than you might think!”
- Inside a ferroelectric RAM chip - Ken Shirriff probes an uncommon form of memory: ”Ferroelectric memory is nonvolatile like flash memory, able to hold its data for decades. But, unlike flash, ferroelectric memory can write data rapidly. Moreover, FRAM is much more durable than flash and can be be written trillions of times. With these advantages, you might wonder why FRAM isn't more popular. The problem is that FRAM is much more expensive than flash, so it is only used in niche applications.”
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year - Another beautiful collection of images from the Natural History Museum's annual contest: ”Whether you shoot in the wilderness or at the heart of an urban environment, Wildlife Photographer of the Year is open to everyone.” This shot of a monarch butterfly arriving at a winter roosting site is by Jaime Rojo.
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