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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. 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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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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1. Wikipedia – The Cave City of Vardzia (Wikipedia).
2. Science – Boom! Hok! A Monkey Language Is Deciphered (NY Times).
3. Science – Hungry Amoebas Spawn Biggest Viruses Ever (Wired).
4. Science – Ancient Volcano’s Devastating Effects Confirmed (Yahoo!).
5. Science – Has the Dark Matter Particle been discovered? (Resonaances)
6. Interesting – Pirate payoffs feed big-money lifestyle in Somalia (KENS5).
7. Interesting – Mehmet Ali Agca to be released 28 years after shooting Pope John Paul II (Times Online).
8. Interesting – Survey finds dramatic drop in Siberian tiger populations (Scientific American).
9. Interesting – Seven Psychological Principles Con Artists Exploit (Lone Gunman).
10. WTF – North Korean leader’s 007-style secret escape tunnels revealed by defector (Times Online).

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1. Wikipedia – The Richat Structure is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of Mauritania near Ouadane. It has attracted attention since the earliest space missions because it forms a conspicuous bull’s-eye in the otherwise rather featureless expanse of the desert (Wikipedia).
2. Wikipedia – Approximately 800 square miles between Egypt and Sudan are up for grabs since neither country can stake a claim over the land (Wikipedia).
3. Wikipedia – The Curta calculator was invented in the Buchenwald concentration camp by Curt Hertstark. He was promised his freedom if he could complete a working model (Wikipedia).
4. Wikipedia – The Old Man of the Lake is the name given to a 30-foot tall tree stump which has been bobbing in Oregon’s Crater Lake since at least 1896 (Wikipedia).
5. Wikipedia – Humphrey Bogart once got into a fight over two stuffed pandas (Wikipedia).
6. Wikipedia – The Requerimiento was a declaration of sovereignty and war read by Spanish military forces to assert their sovereignty over the Americas (Wikipedia).
7. Wikipedia – Eugene Schieffelin was responsible for introducing the starling to North America, where it has become a serious pest (Wikipedia).
8. Wikipedia – Xiahou Dun was said to have yanked the arrow fired by enemy general Cao Xing out of his eye and devoured his own eyeball to instill fear in his enemies (Wikipedia).
9. Wikipedia – The Sega Saturn’s insane marketing techniques: naked women, the psychological effects of using one, and Judo masters who will kick your ass for not buying it (Wikipedia).
10. Wikipedia – The Hollywood Freeway chickens are a colony of feral chickens that live under the Vineland Avenue off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles, California (Wikipedia).

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