"Plastic pollution in the sea gives off a smell that attracts foraging birds, scientists have found. The discovery could explain why seabirds such as the albatross swallow plastic, causing injury or death. The smell, similar to the odour of rotting seaweed, is caused by the breakdown of plankton that sticks to floating bits of plastic."

(From July)

Suddenly, a typewriter museum. (A side note: repeatedly clicking Twitter's "Show more" kind of feels like turning the pages of a book.)

So, something magical happened to me today, and I wanted to tell you all about it.

— Marcin Wichary (@mwichary) October 27, 2016

Articles about potential supernovae in my lifetime are sure to always get shared by me.

"One of the phone numbers the government was investigating was not a Signal user after all. For the other phone number, Open Whisper Systems turned over the only pieces of data it could: the time the user’s account had been created and the last time it had connected to the service — far less than the government sought."