Linkage

• The Poop Emoji Got Gravity Right, Physicists Find (Gizmodo) From the department of too much free time.
• ‘No one believed it’: how a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya’s sand cat really does exist  (The Guardian) First evidence of its presence in Libya.
• Masochistic YouTuber Punishes Himself by Writing a First Person Shooter Entirely in COBOL (Gizmodo) I can't even.
• Detectorist finds 2,700-year-old Bronze Age sword in Poland (Notes from Poland) Metal detector guy hits the jackpot.
• Oldest Wine in the World Is Still Liquid Inside 2,000-Year-Old Roman Funeral Urn (ZME Science) I wonder how it would taste.
• Once Again, Trump Poisons Everything He Touches (The Cross Section) Trump's interference in the referee ruling at the World Cup.
• EU Funding Huge Project on the Origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls - Archaeology (Haaretz) Some of the scrolls are papyrus, and they are going to track down the provenance of those reeds.
• Something Weird Is Going on With the 66 Billion Trees China Planted in a Huge Wall (Futurism) The trees are working to prevent desert expansion, which was expected, and the trees are growing faster than anticipated, which was unexpected.

A pretty good summary of the cesspool known as Palantir.