News Summary

• Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare Guardian (Kevin W.): “While not a virus with pandemic potential…” The Gray Lady is officially not freaked out but still worried enough to put the article outside the paywall.
• For over a thousand years, historians thought the Viking "sunstone" was nothing more than a myth.
• The Norse sagas repeatedly referenced a mysterious object called a "sólarsteinn" or sunstone.