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And äwe: Ikea is recalling three models of table and floor lamps that it says could give you an electric shock when you touch them.

Up to now, the most shocking things about shopping at Ikea were finding your car in the parking garage, successfully assembling one of the Swedish retail giant’s bookshelves, and waking up at 2 a.m. with a bellyache after eating their Swedish meatballs.

Big bird brains: Researchers at the University of Washington are trying to understand why crows react loudly when they see one of their own die. Experiments show that, in crows, the part of the brain involved in memory formation lights up at the sight of death.

Also unexplained: Why seemingly every crow in the greater Puget Sound region flies to Bothell in the evening,

You’re not my mummy: Radar scans of King Tut’s burial chamber have revealed two hidden rooms, raising the tantalizing possibility Tut shared his tomb with his stepmother, Queen Nefertiti.

If so, at least Tut didn’t have to share space for eternity with his mother in law.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff