Plus, toxic worms—and why is Harvard hanging on to 50 Icelandic skulls? And what’s the next step for survivors of America’s deadliest antisemitic attack?
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| | To the naked eye, the margins of a doomed English queen’s prayer book looked blank.
A modern detective, using ultraviolet light (above), unlocked the secret of Anne Boleyn’s scribbled book—and of its mysterious disappearance after her execution.
It also revealed a chain of women who kept the book hidden for centuries. What was in the book? How did they hide it?
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She was framed: Anne Boleyn, shown here in a late 16th-century painting by an unknown artist, was the second wife of Henry VIII and executed on false charges of adultery and incest in May 1536. Read the full story here.
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Feeling hot, hot, hot: High temperatures affect the body in different ways (above, sweat on the shoulder of an athlete), from heat exhaustion to heat strokes, which can be fatal. And it doesn’t take long for heat to injure the body. Here’s what to look for, and what to do to keep yourself safe, as temperatures continue to rise.
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What am I looking at? This isn’t an alien landscape—it’s an extreme close-up of the abdomen of what creature? Hint: It’s been scuttling along the ocean floor relatively unchanged for some 450 million years.
A. Starfish
B. Horseshoe crab
C. Shrimp
D. Trilobite
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Justice—and beyond: A mass killer was given the death sentence this week in the worst antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Members of the Pittsburgh synagogue complex targeted in the 2018 massacre (two of them pictured above) are seeking not only closure—but a future of hope, as Nat Geo reports.
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Today’s soundtrack: Charlie, Last Name Wilson, Charlie Wilson
This newsletter has been curated and edited by David Beard, Hannah Farrow, Nancy San Martín, and Jen Tse. Amanda Williams-Bryant, Alisher Egamov, Rita Spinks, and Jeremy Brandt-Vorel also contributed this week. Thanks for reading! | | | |
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