interesting links roundup #14
Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Creature of the Late Afternoon
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin
Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
The elements of scientific style
Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
In what specific way are you annoying?
Is Food Really Better in Europe?
It’s True: The JAWS Shark is Public Domain
A Medical-History Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains [heads up for a few not-too-gruesome pics of preserved human specimens]
The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system
Occasional paper: The impossible predicament of the death newts
The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology
The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell
SiIvaGunner Is An Elaborate Game Music Joke Collective And One Of The Best Parts Of YouTube
The Succession Battle For A Prison Empire
This Is Your Priest on Drugs
Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE
The Undersea Art Gallery That Ensnares Illegal Trawlers
We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
What Goes Wrong When We Write Ghazals in English
Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
The 12-bit rainbow palette