mistakes Elon Musk secretly ordered Starlink engineers to disrupt Ukraine counter-attack on Russian fleet Rob Beschizza

guns Dead birds alarm residents of California neighborhood Rob Beschizza

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

Meh The gummy revolution: a chewy answer to America's nutritional needs Boing Boing

Science Octavio Aburto at the intersection of science, art, and conservation Elías Villoro

sports Watch: Man catches home run ball while holding baby David Pescovitz

Weird Hundreds of dead birds mysteriously fell from the sky in Spain David Pescovitz

animals See the stunning moment when a murmuration of starlings join together to form an even larger bird Thom Dunn

photography Video shows the shape of a flock of starlings evading a hawk Clive Thompson

silence of the lambs Video tour of Buffalo Bill's house Rusty Blazenhoff

biology Scientists discover snake's strange method of "lasso locomotion" to climb large trees David Pescovitz

happy mutants The 2019 Locus Award nominees: your guide to the best sf/f of 2018 Cory Doctorow

books Starlings: razor-sharp stories and poems from Jo Walton Cory Doctorow

Kids Photo of murmuration of starlings looks like a giant starling Andrea James

video Starling murmurations as you've never heard before Andrea James

video WATCH: High-speed camera reveals path of each starling in a massive flock Andrea James

Eat the Rude: Hannibal Lecter meets the 99% Mark Dery

guily pleasures Let's put the guilt back in guilty pleasures Mark Dery

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