A new study says a junior merchant from the Dutch East India Company, shipwrecked in 1629, is the earliest documented “corporate psychopath,” and we look at what the study actually claims. Also: the SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built, will be sunk off Florida in November to become the world’s largest artificial reef. And astronomers at the Rubin Observatory announced a possible sixth dwarf planet beyond Pluto, a world roughly 600 to 1,500 kilometers wide that was hiding in a crowded patch of stars. Plus a plea deal over microwaved fish, a great white shark that did not want to be petted, a computer model of the universe’s first 2 billion years, and a $47 million “mini T. rex.”
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