Here's what happens when you crack your knuckles, including the researcher who cracked the knuckles in one hand only for over 60 years to see if he'd get arthritis. Related: The Science of Knuckle Cracking.
How a Guy From a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology
The legend of Blackbeard’s silver-plated skull. Kind of related: The Swashbuckling History of Women Pirates.
April 22 is Earth Day: here's the story of the co-founder who killed then composted his girlfriend.
Inside the FBI’s Colossal Pre-Computer Fingerprint Factory.
Artificial Heart Update: A simple artificial heart could permanently replace a failing human one.
ICYMI, Wednesday's links are here, and include the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed 80% of San Francisco, that time Kansas locked up more than 5,000 women and girls for having STDs, why it's almost impossible to throw a 110 mph fastball, and "T'was the eighteenth of April in seventy-five": the midnight ride of William Dawes and Samuel Prescott (and Paul Revere).
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