- How the ‘Wandering Meatloaf’ Got Its Rock-Hard Teeth (New York Times) Bizarre chemistry on a sea slug type creature’s super hard teeth.
- English dictionary of ancient Greek ‘spares no blushes’ with fresh look at crudity (Guardian) There is a lot of profanity in Greek writing, but a Victorian era dictionary Bowdlerized the hall out of it.
- Friends Don’t Let Friends Become Chinese Billionaires (Forbes) Chinese billionaires have a disturbingly high death rate.
- Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning (New York Times) Using microbes to clean Michelangelo sculptures in a crypt.
- VOICES: Lessons from the union busting at No Evil Foods (Facing South) No Evil Foods is evil.
- A Veteran Tried to Credit Black Americans on Memorial Day. His Mic Got Muted (New York Times) The speaker wanted to discuss the origins of Memorial Day, it started with freed slaves wanting to honor Union soldiers, and the racists at the American Legion Post cut his mic. Racism Much?
- Buckingham Palace banned ethnic minorities from office roles, papers reveal (Guardian) Speaking of racism.
- The train goes up, the train goes down: a simple new way to store energy (Vox) A train, concrete blocks, a hill, and you can store energy more efficiently and more cheaply than pumped water storage.
The Squirrel Obstacle Course, the squeak-ual: