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BBC
German police probe warnings about Christmas market attack suspect: Officers say they evaluated if the suspected perpetrator could be a potential threat a year ago.
'There should've been better security': Anger as Magdeburg grieves: Outside the market hit by a speeding car, Germans complain about security and their politicians.
Russia executing more and more Ukrainian prisoners of war: Ukrainian prosecutors say Russians have executed at least 147 PoWs, 127 of them this year alone.
Heathrow cancels flights as winds disrupt festive travel: Strong winds are continuing to cause some disruption as millions of people travel ahead of Christmas.

CBC
Every day a 'journey of torment': Syrian Canadian describes 20 years in Assad regime prisons:

Ontario Liberal MPs call for Trudeau's resignation: sources:

One week in, Toronto businesses say GST holiday has been tricky:

Some small business owners say it’s been a challenging transition to implement the tax changes, and there needs to be more clarity around which products are included.

New York Times Science
How to Watch the Ursids Meteor Shower as It Peaks During the Winter Solstice: The astronomical event, which overlaps with the Winter Solstice, is often overlooked because of the winter chill.

A Mouse That Swims and Dozens More Species Are Discovered in a Peruvian Jungle: A 38-day expedition in the remote Alto Mayo region, where development threatens wild habitats, turned up one previously unknown animal after another.

Dennis Overbye on Retiring from The New York Times: A Solstice of the Soul: For his next trick, your cosmic correspondent for the past quarter-century will (try to) retire.

This Brazilian Velvet Ant Is So Dark That It’s Super-Black: Scientists found that the dark markings on a species of fluffy wasp reflected less than 1 percent of light.

Superflares Erupt From Stars Like Our Sun Once Every 100 Years: New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future.


Visualizing Science

The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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