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I’m not dead! Just really busy. Will start updating in May August when things calm down a bit.

Edit: FML.

1. Science – Neuroscientists discover brain area responsible for fear of losing money (PhysOrg).
2. Science – The Evolution Debate Is Over; It’s Time To Move Forward (NPR).
3. Science – Being bored could be bad for your health (Salon).
4. Science – What came before the Big Bang? (The Daily Galaxy).
5. History – Slavery in America: Historical Overview (Slavery in America).
6. History – When electric doorbells were new (Wired).
7. History – Indian man resurrects the East India Company (Times Online).
8. Interesting – Does polygamy reduce the risk of AIDS? (Chris Blattman).
9. Interesting – USA’s top pork producer is also one the worst polluters (Rolling Stone).
10. Wikipedia – Edwin Howard Armstrong: The inventor of FM radio (Wikipedia).

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1. History – Tycho Brahe to be exhumed (The Copenhagen Post).
2. History – The tragedy of dying languages (BBC).
3. History – World History Looks Different When Seen Through Islamic Eyes (VOA).
4. History – The history of tipping (BillShrink).
5. History – Founders of British obstetrics ‘were callous murderers’ (Guardian UK).
6. Interesting – Why Do the Chinese Save So Much? (Columbia Business School)
7. Interesting – Chinese attitudes about antiques 40 years after the Cultural Revolution (NY Times).
8. Interesting – How the right to arms saved the non-violent civil rights protesters (The Volokh Conspiracy).
9. Science – Our world may be a giant hologram (NewScientist).
10. WTF – How to survive if you are buried alive (The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook).

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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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