Interesting links: April 2019

The lost city of Thonis, in the Bay of Aboukir

SpaceX managed a triple booster landing (!)
In the “somewhat ancient history” category, a look back at Ashurbanipal of Assyria
In the “check out this new animal” category: a giant ancient herbivore
Sam Harris on “the fireplace delusion”
A crazy-but-true-headline: “Violent attack turns man from futon salesman to math genius”
As close as it gets to Indiana Jones: finding a lost underwater Egyptian city
Taking a hypothesis and … really thinking it through: “Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?”
An interesting synthesis of biology and psychology: looking at the role played by the Vagus Nerve
It used to be the case that UFOs were denied by the government/military, but now that they aren’t, they’re apparently … boring.
In the “questionably ancient history” category, a couple of stories on earlier inhabitants of the Amazon
A double “lunar” eclipse on Mars
The complex interior of a Pacific Union “big boy” locomotive