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Trivia (35 Biomes points): What were these structures used for (hint: they aren’t ancient)?
Why Nigerian email scams work. Although they seem so obviously crooked, this blatancy is a means of weeding out all but the most credulous respondents.
I enjoyed this 1979 BBC Four interview with John Cleese and Michael Palin about the making of Life of Brian, and the inclusion of two crazy people challenging the film. This kind of discussion would never be allowed to go on for over an hour on TV today.
Estonia has built the world’s first nationwide electric car charging network.
The ridiculous rise of Ayn Rand.
Gavin Mueller argues that Bruce Wayne isn’t a capitalist, he’s a feudalist.
Some nice photos from MSN, including this honeybee committing suicide by stinger induced evisceration.
I’d never heard of free-floating planets before, but apparently they may be more common than stars.
Watch the beetle cam help researchers study a pride of lions close up, before being stolen by a cub.
This week’s Zombie Lie: Do companies lay people off because of taxes or a minimum wage rise? No, they don’t.
Today’s long read is a fascinating and detailed account of the life and rise to power of Adolf Hitler.
Researchers are finding that urban coyotes are adapting to city life in remarkable ways, including studying traffic patterns and learning to use crosswalks at red lights to get across streets safely.
And the great news is that according to a Pew Research Center poll only 22% of Americans consider themselves to be Republicans. The bad news is a majority still think the deficit is our most urgent problem, when it's actually the least.
At 61, Mark Hamill may star in the next Star Wars Movie.
Another “People are Awesome” compilation.
Animal of the week: Ten things you didn’t know about chameleons.
I remember as a kid reading about the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest.
They’re calling it a “disorder”, but I think everyone experiences some degree of lethologica.
When you buy packaged seafood in grocery or box stores (box store products seem to be worse according to the article) you may be paying up to $15 per pound just for the ice the fish is packed in.
Jim Gilliam’s story “The Internet is My Religion”. What this guy went through is humbling.
Now we’re cookin’: Chocolate gadgets, like this functional chocolator.
Fifty years after his assassination, a pair of ex-pat brits living in Dallas are trying to create a community project honoring Kennedy. Local residents will hold up placards containing each of the 2,549 words that were to be the speech he was to give later that day.
Eliminating Saturday mail delivery won’t do anything to help the postal service’s financial problems since the Republicans mandated that the USPS will fail, making way for privatized mail service. They did it by requiring the mail service to overfund its employee health care costs decades in advance.
Pet corner: Eight of the weirdest dog breeds, and the list includes the Catahoula Leopard Dog (which makes up half of Creole’s mix). What makes the breed weird in this case is they have been in America for almost 500 years. And they can climb trees.
A video of Auroras, the ones at the 40 sec. and 1 min. marks are spectacular.
Drivers with safe records, but who are low income, pay more for car insurance than rich people with a record of at-fault accidents.
Timewaster of the Week: Ducks are the best.
The meteorite explosion over Russia is all over the interwebs, but a more impressive display was seen a hundred years ago over that country. The Tunguska Explosion laid waste to 80 million trees in Siberia.
Need to rent an online girlfriend? Great! Then you have without a doubt come to the right place.
Using math to counter Pascal’s Wager.
iPod Shuffle:
As usual, Charles Pierce has the best take on the resignation of Benny the Rat.
Why in 1969 it was actually easier to just go to the moon than it was to fake the landing.
Architectural eyesore of the month.
Beautiful nature photographs by Patrick Zephyr.
