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  Bonobos can play make-believe much like children, study suggests www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
  

  Bonobos can play make-believe much like children, study suggests

  An ape was able to identify the location of imaginary objects in pretend scenarios, researchers find

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  Winners of the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year www.theatlantic.com/photography/... Mirror: archive.is/2026.02.06/h...
  

  Winners of the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year

  The competition celebrates photographers who reveal the hidden world through “macro, micro and close-up imagery.”

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  The Nineteenth-Century Science of Fashion daily.jstor.org/the-nineteen...
  

  The Nineteenth-Century Science of Fashion - JSTOR Daily

  Victorian-era color theory moved from labs and studios into women’s magazines—and into everyday decisions about dress.

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  'We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands' www.bbc.com/news/article...
  

  We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands

  A couple who stayed in Shenzhen discovered their intimate moments were filmed as spy-cam porn.

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  The Farm Boy Who Found Pluto nautil.us/the-farm-boy...
  

  The Farm Boy Who Found Pluto

  The Farm Boy Who Found Pluto: Despite its demotion from planet status, the tiny but mighty world still captivates scientists.

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  Journey to the Invisible Planet

  The tangled history of humanity’s search for the solar system’s uncharted planets.

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  This week: Capturing smells, Mozart's killer, Lilliputian hallucinations, and more! www.damninteresting.com/podcasts/202...
  
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  Historians Thought This Rare Renaissance Portrait by One of the First Famous Female Artists Was Lost to History—Until It Surfaced in North Carolina www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
  

  Historians Thought This Rare Renaissance Portrait by One of the First Famous Female Artists Was Lost to History—Until It Surfaced in North Carolina

  Sofonisba Anguissola's 16th-century painting of a clergyman was known only through a black-and-white photo. However, the original had been hiding in a private collection in North Carolina since 1977

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  Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World www.quantamagazine.org/expansion-mi...
  

  Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Cellular World | Quanta Magazine

  How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

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  Let There Be Dark nautil.us/let-there-be...
  

  Let There Be Dark

  Let There Be Dark: To unleash your imagination, step out of the light.

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  Shortness of Dark

  Depending on who you ask, the first practical light bulb was invented by Joseph Wilson Swan of Britain in 1878, or Thomas Alva Edison of the U.S. in 1879.

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  How a US Invasion of Canada Would Really Unfold thewalrus.ca/how-a-us-inv...
  

  How a US Invasion of Canada Would Really Unfold—And How We Fight Back | The Walrus

  American aggression is no longer theoretical

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  America's Secret Plan to Invade Canada

  At a length of 5,522 miles (8,891 kilometers), Canada and the United States share the longest non-militarized border in the world. Today we think of the

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