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[conuly]

Pearl Street, Niagara Falls and the war of the currents: The eccentric beginnings of New York's bright lights

Solar grazing helps farmers feed their flocks while the expanding solar industry provides more clean energy to the grid.

Tugboat powered by ammonia sails for the first time, showing how to cut emissions from shipping

Did Frank Sinatra Really Perform at My Grandma's High School?

Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death

In Japanese You Need a Dictionary to Count Things

This old-school website is a universal date converter

Lifeline, Cash-Grab, Tool for Censorship: Three Incarcerated Readers on eBooks in Prison

Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers

How archaeologists are investigating a major European battle fought over 32 centuries ago

How Humans Wrestle Against Rivers

Six-year-old abducted from California park in 1951 found alive after seven decades

A Purrrrfect Political Storm

What’s Poisoning These Scientists’ Lab Experiments?

Ur-Fascism (Why is this still relevant!?)

Inside the Billionaire Bunker

Wrecked rain gauges. Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy.

Where the sea wall ends

Bangladesh ramps up border vigilance as thousands of Rohingya flee Myanmar

Environmental cost of food

'The violence is getting out of hand': Crime grips Cuba's streets

Jamaican soldiers and police arrive in Haiti to help fight gangs

As Taliban starts restricting men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner (Oh, if only there had been some way to predict that the Taliban would do what they were doing before!)

Comments

[moon_custafer]

There’s a short film called Fish Story which is a similar tale of trying to find evidence to confirm or deny a family legend.

Having watched it, my guess when I began reading the Frank Sinatra article was that (a) the grandmother’s story would eventually turn out to be true, and (b) there’d be one wrong detail somewhere that would lead the search astray for months. It was interesting to see where and what that detail was.

[siderea]

"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs man who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."