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1. History – Technical specs and photographs from the Eiffel Tower’s construction (BezBrige).
2. History – A 4,000-year-old lentil seed found during an archeological excavation has germinated (Hurriyet Daily News).
3. History – Sign Stolen From Auschwitz Is Found (NY Times).
4. Science – Inside the Nursery That Supercharges Evolution (Wired).
5. Science- Richard Dawkins: What if we had 16 fingers? (New Statesman)
6. Science – Galactic Tide May Have Influenced Life on Earth (arXiv).
7. Science – 1968 scuba tank helps climate research (ABC News).
8. Science – NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spotted the first reflection off a northern lake on Saturn’s moon Titan (Popular Science).
9. Science – Mysterious Collapse of Reindeer Herd Blamed on Freak Storms (Wired).
10. Science – Why Geologists Love Beer (Wired).

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1. History -How the Nazis stole Christmas (Telegraph UK).
2. History – 10 executions that defined the 2000s (Executed Today).
3. History – The history of homosexuals and transgenders in the Wild West (LA Times).
4. History – The legacy of an inhuman trade (Times Online).
5. History – Top 15 Greatest Composers Of All Time (Listverse).
6. Science – Higgs in space: Orbiting telescope could beat the LHC (New Scientist).
7. Science – First Global Map of Mercury (Wired).
8. Science – Wild Dingoes Remember Human Gestures (LiveScience).
9. Interesting – In the lawless mountain realms of Asia, a Yale professor finds a case against civilization (Boston Globe).
10. WTF – Chilean Olympic weightlifter Elizabeth Poblete has given birth to a baby boy during a training session, without having known she was pregnant (BBC).

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1. History – The woman who taught France how to drink (The Independent).
2. History – Boy Scout founder Lord Baden-Powell ‘executed PoW’ (BBC).
3. History – Why Are Europeans White? (Google Knol)
4. History – Nobel Peace Prize Also-Rans (Foreign Policy).
5. Dinosaurs – Tiny tyrannosaurs rewrite evolutionary rules (Scientific American).
6. Science – What Is the Speed of Thought? (Discover Magazine)
7. Science – Pitch of Blue Whale Songs Is Declining Around the World (ScienceDaily).
8. Interesting – North Korea’s Ajumma Rebellion (The New Ledger).
9. Interesting – Why Do Rappers Hold Their Guns Sideways? (Salon)
10. Interesting – What Do Philosophers Think – and What Do Philosophers Think Philosophers Think? (The Library of Economics and Liberty)

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History is full of epic mustaches. The Babylonians believed that a man’s virility was proportional to the thickness of his mustache and even swore oaths upon their beards. This tradition continued into Saddam Hussein’s reign, where mustaches were practically mandated. At times, one wonders if it is the man or the mustache. The following are notable examples of humanity’s timeless mustache heritage. Read the rest of this entry »

1. WTF – The Gambler Who Blew $127 Million (WSJ).
2. WTF – Office Space Actor Sues Anonymous Wikipedia Vandal (Wired).
3. WTF – Radovan Karadzic’s New-Age Adventure (NY Times).
4. Science – Stem cells can kill HIV (Chicago Now).
5. Science – Young-earth creationist Kent Hovind’s doctoral dissertation (WikiLeaks).
6. Science – Saturn’s Hexagon May Be Solar System’s Coolest Mystery (Wired).
7. Science – New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future (Technology Review)
8. History – Naylamp’s temple discovered in Lambayeque (… en Peru).
9. History – Ancient Tablets Decoded; Shed Light on Assyrian Empire (National Geographic).
10. Wikipedia – Manshiyat naser is a slum settlement on the outskirts of the city of Cairo whose economy revolves around the collection and recycling of the city’s garbage (Wikipedia).

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