Thursday, June 19, 2025

Friday Links!

Leading off this week, the story behind one of the most unforgettable photographs ever taken: ‘At one point, I stepped on a cow’s head’: Gulshan Khan on her best photograph

This is an riveting, twisted story: The Great Pretenders.

Absolutely bizarre (and I remember this): Incredible testimonies: In the 1980s, thousands of Americans began to suspect they may have been abducted by aliens. What happened?

A tremendous read: What is Ethiopian philosophy? Riven by two competing schools of thought, the future of philosophical enquiry in Ethiopia stands at a crossroads

This is fantastic: The Man Who Unsolved a Murder.

A medical mystery finally solved: After a series of tumors, woman’s odd-looking tongue explains everything

Of scientific note: New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory.

From Wally, and it seems unstoppable: As grocery shortages persist, UNFI says it’s recovering from cyberattack. 1777, in case you're wondering: When music became copyrightable. I'll take a t-shirt, please: Archaeologists Are Recreating the Long-Lost Recipe for Egyptian Blue, the World’s Oldest Known Synthetic Pigment. I honestly left feeling underwhelmed, but I was in the tiniest minority: ‘It was simply mind-blowing’: readers remember seeing Star Wars for the first time

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