Tue. 1/26 - Werner Herzog on Skateboarding

New DNA analysis upends some long held assumptions about the evolutionary background of dire wolves. How Adobe Flash broke an entire railway system. Astronomers have discovered a sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system. Say that six times fast… And the definitive Werner Herzog interview on… skateboarding.

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Links:

• Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal (Scientific American)
• Dire Wolves Were Real (Scientific American)
• Dire wolves were real—and even stranger than we thought (National Geographic)
• When Adobe Stopped Flash Content From Running It Also Stopped A Chinese Railroad (Jalopnik)
• 'Sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system' discovered whirling through the Milky Way (Space)
• DISCUSSING SKATEBOARDING WITH FILMMAKER WERNER HERZOG (Jenkem)
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