sapience: engineering students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute may have created a trio of robots that are self-aware, tested with a proverbial riddle adapted for machines
banishment: Atlas Obscura explores historical locations for exiled leaders with contemporary equivalents
bubbler: interesting survey of the history of drinking fountains and what their decline means, via Super Punch
for the queen to use: gorgeous vintage science fiction and space images from the British Library, via the Everlasting Blort