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1. Interesting – The Jihadist Next Door (NY Times).
2. Interesting – Could Cars Have Caused the Mortgage Meltdown? (Wired)
3. History – Josef Mengele’s diary up for sale (Telegraph UK).
4. History – Early draft of the Constitution found (Philadelphia Inquirer).
5. History – Adolf Hitler, the Irish folk music fan (IrishCentral).
6. History – “Voodoo Histories”: When smart people believe dumb things (Salon).
7. Science – Battle of the Viral Mutations (SEED).
8. Science – Zoologger: ‘Living beach ball’ is giant single cell (NewScientist).
9. Science – Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy (arXiv).
10. Dinosaurs – Tiny dinos perished in footprint death pits (NewScientist).

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1. Science – Antarctica’s “Blood Falls” (Discover Magazine).
2. Science – Volcanoes ‘destroyed ancient ocean life’ (Telegraph UK).
3. Science – The Lost Turkeys of the New World (Wired).
4. Science – The absolutely insane 1 Megajoule laser (ScienceDaily).
5. History – Asian skeleton discovered in Roman cemetery (Independent UK).
6. History – Birds Got Too Fat to Fly After Dinosaurs Vanished? (National Geographic)
7. Interesting – The World’s Dirtiest Cities (Forbes).
8. Interesting – Russia’s evolution as seen through McDonald’s (NY Times).
9. Interesting – Shanghai’s cricket fighting subculture (WSJ).
10. Wikipedia – Tama-Re, the Egyptian-themed Nuwaubian compound (Wikipedia).

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1. Interesting – A Year of Global Shipping Routes Mapped by GPS (Wired).
2. Interesting – Why do high-end prostitutes make so much money? (bakadesuyo)
3. Interesting – 15 Cute Animals That Will Cause You Horrible Harm (brainz).
4. Interesting – The economics of child soldiering (Chris Blattman).
5. Interesting – The Zero Rupee note (World Bank).
6. Science – Moon May Have Formed in Natural Nuclear Explosion (arXiv).
7. Science – Can planets reproduce by budding? (weird things)
8. Art – The Most Famous Unfinished Works of Art (Bezbridge).
9. History – The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon’s Greatest Army (TYWKIWDBI).
10. History – Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume (stone).

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History is full of figures with popular stature or political influence who were plagued with scandals. Most of their offenses end up getting hushed up or forgotten, but sex scandals always seem to linger. The following are 7 (alleged) sex offenders and how they managed to get away with it. Click to continue »

1. Interesting – Skull linked to secret Yale society to be sold (MSNBC).
2. Interesting – Black people are no longer the majority in Harlem (NY Times).
3. Interesting -A build-it-yourself motorcycle that can fly kit will be available by 2011 (Scientific American).
4. Interesting – Christopher Lee (Saurman) is making a concept album about Charlemagne (myspace).
5. Interesting – Crapulous (Etymology Online).
6. Science - Dandelions can be hacked to produce rubber (The Economist).
7. Science – Frogs will urinate foreign objects in their bodies (Nature).
8. Science – Prions can evolve and adapt (Lab Spaces).
9. History – September 1752, The Month That Wasn’t (UNEASYsilence).
10. Wikipedia – How Elf lost $150 million on an oil sniffing device (Wikipedia).

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