March 28, 2020
(Yes, TriWeekly has become a very elastic term these days ...)

The bones of 60 mammoths were used to build a 40-foot wide structure on the Russian Steppes, around 25,000 years ago. That's the Ice Age! Why such a big building was needed and what it was used for is a mystery.  
There was probably no roof over the massive enclosure.  Other paleolithic sites dot the general area, but nothing on this scale has been found ... anywhere.

I first read about Thalidomide babies in the early 1960s, in a Life or Look Magazine at the eye doctor's office. Maybe I was 9. Here's a concise, interesting history of the drug, and a profile of the FDA researcher who blocked its marketing in the US - she saved thousands from its effects.
The New York TImes reports on the thalidomide babies  today, and a new book tells their personal stories, reminding us of what can happen when miracle drugs get passed out without trials or testing. 

Bored? Wish you could go to a museum?
The Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose bought a pair of Egyptian sarcophagi from the Neiman Marcus catalog in 1971, and found a mummy in one of them! 
And Oxford's History of Science Museum features the original penicillin culture, which you can see at left.
Those museums and others are profiled by Atlas Obscura, with links to their virtual tours. They point you to Google's Art & Culture page, where you can gorge yourself on international collections of paintings, sculpture, and more.