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• The Wood Wide Web: What Trees Actually Share Underground
  Forest trees are joined by a fungal internet that trades sugar for minerals, warns neighbours of drought, and lets stumps keep feeding for years. The science is real, the popular version is exaggerated — here is what mycorrhizal networks genuinely do.
• How DNS Works: The Invisible Phone Book That Runs the Internet
  Every click starts with a lookup you never see: a name becomes a number in tens of milliseconds, through a global, cached, hierarchical database nobody centrally controls. Here is the machinery of DNS — roots, TLDs, resolvers, records and TTLs — and its documented weak spots.