I believe that some of these stories (but not the links) have been posted.

[URL="https://daily.jstor.org/how-ventriloquism-tricks-the-brain/"]How Ventriloquism Tricks the Brain[/URL]

[URL="https://www.us.mensa.org/read/bulletin/features/this-dictionary-illuminates-the-meaning-of-everything/"]This Dictionary Illuminates the Meaning of Everything[/URL]

[URL="https://www.npr.org/2018/07/02/625426015/the-edge-effect"]The Edge Effect[[/URL]

[URL="https://aeon.co/essays/the-roots-of-writing-lie-in-hopes-and-dreams-not-in-accounting"]The Deep Roots of Writing[/URL]

[URL="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-architecture-vr-ocma-building-morphosis-20180703-story.html#"]How architects are using virtual reality to walk through buildings that don't yet exist[/URL]

[URL="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-color-pink-sahara"]Found: The First Color Made By a Living Thing[/URL]

[URL="https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-brains-may-predict-the-future-20180710/"]To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future[/URL]

[URL="https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a20722505/history-of-steel/"]The Entire History of Steel[/URL]

[URL="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180712100455.htm"]Why the left hemisphere of the brain understands language better than the right[/URL]

[URL="https://www.healthimaging.com/topics/neuroimaging/no-two-people-have-same-brain-anatomy"]MRI study: No 2 brains are the same—even among identical twins[/URL]

[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/science/space-neutrinos-blazar.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"]It Came From a Black Hole, and Landed in Antarctica[/URL]

[URL="http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/jupiter-s-moon-count-reaches-79-including-tiny-oddball-1.4016397"]Jupiter's moon count reaches 79, including tiny 'oddball' [/URL]

[URL="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180719142110.htm"]Complete fly brain imaged at nanoscale resolution[/URL]

[URL="https://qz.com/1324334/memes-around-the-world-the-worlds-biggest-meme-is-the-word-meme-itself/"]The world’s biggest meme is the word “meme” itself[/URL]

[URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2018/07/17/v-corelleplates/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7ce61c695209"]How Corelle plates came to fill immigrants’ kitchen cabinets[/URL]

[URL="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinese-researchers-achieve-stunning-quantum-entanglement-record/"]Chinese Researchers Achieve Stunning Quantum-Entanglement Record[/URL]

[URL="https://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20180713/brains-may-be-as-unique-as-fingerprints"]Brains May Be as Unique as Fingerprints[/URL]

[URL="https://www.popsci.com/first-memory-false-neuroscience"]Your first memory probably isn't yours, no matter how real it seems[/URL]

[URL="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/07/smell-behavior-lemurs-health-communication-animals/"]Is It Possible to Smell Weakness? Lemurs Can.[/URL]

[url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective]Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine[/url] - Motherboard
[quote]At the pharmacy, a pair of single use Mylan epipens can cost over $600 and the company’s generic version costs $300 per pair, but an ongoing shortage means you probably can’t find them, even if you can afford them. In response, Four Thieves published the instructions for a DIY epipen online that can be made for [url=https://fourthievesvinegar.org/blog/2016/09/introducing-the-epipencil]$30 in off-the-shelf parts[/url] and reloaded for $3. Shkreli drove the price of the lifesaving HIV medicine Daraprim sells up to $750 per pill. So Four Thieves developed an open source portable chemistry lab that allows anyone to manufacture their own Daraprim for just 25 cents apiece.

The pharmaceutical industry is valued at $446 billion in the US and its walls are tightly policed by regulatory agencies like the FDA and Drug Enforcement Administration. By freely distributing plans for medical devices and pharmaceuticals, a loose collective of anarchists and hackers is threatening to pull the rug out from under one of the most regulated and profitable industries in the world. And they’re just getting started.

FREE DRUGS

Four Thieves claims to have successfully synthesized five different kinds of pharmaceuticals, all of which were made using MicroLab. The device attempts to mimic an expensive machine usually only found in chemistry laboratories for a fraction of the price using readily available off-the-shelf parts. In the case of the MicroLab, the reaction chambers consist of a small mason jar mounted inside a larger mason jar with a 3D-printed lid whose printing instructions are available online. A few small plastic hoses and a thermistor to measure temperature are then attached through the lid to circulate fluids through the contraption to induce the chemical reactions necessary to manufacture various medicines. The whole process is automated using a small computer that costs about $30.

To date, Four Thieves has used the device to produce homemade Naloxone, a drug used to prevent opiate overdoses better known as Narcan; Daraprim, a drug that treats infections in people with HIV; Cabotegravir, a preventative HIV medicine that may only need to be taken four times per year; and mifepristone and misoprostol, two chemicals needed for pharmaceutical abortions.[/quote]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;492608][url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective]Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine[/url] - Motherboard[/QUOTE]

It really is outrageous what was done by Shkreli and by the folks who make Epipen. And yet... arguing that a pill costs only pennies to manufacture is like arguing that a CD-ROM costs only pennies too, and therefore that's how software should be priced.

In the case of software, obviously no one sells packaged CD-ROMs anymore. Everything migrated to websites and the cloud instead. It's hard to pirate a service. But that wouldn't work for medicines. You can't exactly force people to go to pill church and receive pill communion wafers.

However, these portable chemistry labs will surely get regulated out of existence when people jailbreak them and start producing ricin and carfentanyl. And CRISPR, too, will be severely regulated when people start making monkeypox in their basements.

[url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/]Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm[/url] | Quanta Magazine

[QUOTE=ewmayer;492916][url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/]Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm[/url] | Quanta Magazine[/QUOTE]A good example of: Never trust the authority, they aren't always correct. Always challenge the assumptions.

[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/well/the-power-of-positive-people.html"]The Power of Positive People[/URL]

[URL="https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/jazz-classical-musicians-brains/"]Brains of jazz and classical musicians work differently, study reveals[/URL]

[URL="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/star-s-black-hole-encounter-puts-einstein-s-theory-gravity-test"]Star’s black hole encounter puts Einstein’s theory of gravity to the test[/URL]

[URL="https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/worms-frozen-in-permafrost-for-up-to-42000-years-come-back-to-life/"]Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life[/URL]

[URL="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322579.php"]Why smells bring back such vivid memories[/URL]

[URL="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/18/the-handwriting-of-famous-people/"]The Handwriting of Famous People[/URL]

[URL="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/27/632298300/how-the-brain-helps-you-sing-or-say-what-you-mean"]How The Brain Helps You Sing Or Say What You Mean[/URL]

[URL="https://www.us.mensa.org/featured-content/the-inspirational-journey-of-one-gifted-youth/"]The Inspirational Journey of One Gifted Youth[/URL]

[URL="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/is-the-lorax-real?utm_medium=atlas-page&utm_source=facebook.com"]Is Dr. Seuss’s Lorax Real?[/URL]

[url=www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6024765/Scientists-FINALLY-discover-thalidomide-caused-birth-defects.html]Scientists FINALLY discover why thalidomide caused birth defects[/url] | Daily Mail Online

From the article:

"Some had no arms or legs at all. Others had extremely shortened limbs, with misshapen hands or feet, or under-developed body parts that looked more like flippers."

As terrible as the resulting birth defects were, this is actually quite interesting from an evolutionary/genetic perspective, in the "If shallow-aquatic ancient ancestors transitioned to land and over the eons fins gradually became elaborated into limbs" sense. I.e. similar to the primitive-ancestral forms visible in early-stage embryos - in this case the drug prevents development beyond the ancestral form, the original flipper shape simply grows in size along with the embryo.

[URL="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180802141619.htm"]Map of a billion brain links reveals clues about how we think[/URL]

[URL="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/massospora-parasite-drugs-its-hosts/566324/"]This Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms[/URL]

[URL="https://www.quantamagazine.org/peter-scholze-becomes-one-of-the-youngest-fields-medalists-ever-20180801/"]A Master of Numbers and Shapes Who Is Rewriting Arithmetic[/URL]

[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/30/technology/robot-hands.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"]How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can[/URL]

[URL="https://lithub.com/color-or-fruit-on-the-unlikely-etymology-of-orange/"]COLOR OR FRUIT? ON THE UNLIKELY ETYMOLOGY OF “ORANGE”[/URL]

[URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/books/ernest-hemingway-short-story-published.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes"]A Hemingway War Story Sees Print for the First Time[/URL]

[URL="https://www.newyorker.com/elements/lab-notes/we-are-all-scutoids-a-brand-new-shape-explained"]We Are All Scutoids: A Brand-New Shape, Explained[/URL]

[URL="http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/there-is-no-such-thing-as-unconscious-thought"]There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Thought[/URL]

[URL="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/popcorn-powered-robots-get-em-while-theyre-hot-180969889/"]Popcorn-Powered Robots? Get ’Em While They’re Hot![/URL]

[URL="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180809175051.htm"]A video game can change the brain, may improve empathy in middle schoolers[/URL]

[URL="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/zebra-finches-dream-little-dream-melody-180969925/"]Zebra Finches Dream a Little Dream of Melody[/URL]

[URL="http://news.mit.edu/2018/neuroscientists-brain-caudate-nucleus-pessimism-decision-making-0809"]Neuroscientists get at the roots of pessimism[/URL]

[URL="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-diners-look-like-trains"]Why So Many Diners Look Like Train Cars[/URL]

[URL="https://tedium.co/2018/08/02/disposable-ballpoint-pen-history/"]Pens for Pennies[/URL]

[URL="https://www.us.mensa.org/read/bulletin/features/standing-up-in-slow-time/"]Standing Up in Slow Time[/URL]

[URL="https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/the-bermuda-triangle-mystery-is-solved-again"]The Bermuda Triangle mystery is solved. Again.[/URL]