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The Jihadist Next Door (Links)

By Sami on February 05th, 2010

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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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The woman who taught France how to drink (Links)

By Sami on December 17th, 2009

empressjosephine The woman who taught France how to drink (Links)

  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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Chairman Mao’s Underground City (Links)

By Sami on November 23rd, 2009

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  1. History – Chairman Mao’s Underground City (Vice).
  2. History – The abandoned cities of Kola Peninsula (English Russia).
  3. History – How the Nazis attempted to reinvent Christmas (Spiegel Online).
  4. History – Top 10 Snipers in History (Listverse).
  5. History – The search for Genghis Khan’s tomb (EurasiaNet).
  6. Interesting – Naming the ’00s (NYTimes).
  7. Interesting – Madagascar’s stone forest (National Geographic).
  8. Science – Hippos are photographed biting a crocodile to death (Science Blogs).
  9. Science – Will E.T. Look Like Us? (Scientific American)
  10. Dinosaurs – Tyrannosaurus skeleton casts mounted in a mating position (Wikipedia).

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Ukrainian Jews survived WWII by hiding in caves

By Sami on October 16th, 2009

caves Ukrainian Jews survived WWII by hiding in caves

  1. History – Ukrainian Jews survived WWII by hiding in caves (Finding Dulcinea).
  2. History – A previously unknown portrait by Leonardo da Vinci potentially worth tens of millions of pounds is thought to have been discovered thanks to a fingerprint (Telegraph UK).
  3. History – William Shakespeare wrote anonymously published play, expert claims (Telegraph UK).
  4. Dinosaurs – The “early bird” Archaeopteryx may not be a bird, after all (NY Times).
  5. Science – Stephen Hawking Is Making His Comeback (Discover Magazine).
  6. Science – What do we really know about the Kuiper Belt? (Scientific American)
  7. Science – Whalebones: Saving the remains of the world’s biggest animal (Walrus Magazine).
  8. Science – Dyslexia has big differences in English and Chinese (Scientific American).
  9. Science – DARPA Tries to Tap Elusive Casimir Effect for Breakthrough Technology (Scientific American).
  10. Interesting – Amazon tribe has just five members left (Telegraph UK).

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Illusions: What’s in a face? (Links)

By Sami on October 13th, 2009

faceillusion Illusions: Whats in a face? (Links)

  1. Science – Illusions: What’s in a face? (Scientific American)
  2. Science – Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Danger (National Geographic).
  3. Science – The world’s leading psychologists share one nagging thing they still don’t understand about themselves (British Psychological Society’s Research Digest).
  4. Science – A New Challenge to Einstein? (Discover Magazine)
  5. Science – Vegetarian spider is Gandhi of arachnids (New Scientist).
  6. Dinosaurs – Baby dinosaur made tracks as it fled for its life (New Scientist).
  7. History – Nepal: Peace, Love, Massacres (The War Nerd).
  8. Interesting – Computer program proves Shakespeare didn’t work alone, researchers claim (Times Online).
  9. Interesting – 5 Insects People Love to Eat (mental_floss).
  10. WTF – Al-Qaeda has starting hiding bombs in the rectum (The Times of India).

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