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1.1709: The year that Europe froze (www.newscientist.com)
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2.Japan’s Big-Works Stimulus Is Lesson (www.nytimes.com)
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3.Jon Stewart's First Ever Daily Show (ccinsider.comedycentral.com)
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4.No Son of Mine Plays Oregon Trail Like That. (mcsweeneys.net)
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5.Typo In Proposition 8 Defines Marriage As Between 'One Man And One Wolfman' (www.theonion.com)
This made me laugh audibly. A rare Onion article where reading the whole thing is an improvement over just reading the title.
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6.Obama's Chief Speechwriter, 27, Works on Inaugural Address While Making His Own Transition (www.washingtonpost.com)
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7.The “broken windows” theory of crime is correct (www.economist.com)
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8.Some See Big Problem in Wisconsin Drinking (www.nytimes.com)
Among other things, minors in Wisconsin can drink in bars as long as their accompanied by a guardian who consents.
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9.Obama's designated a--hole (www.salon.com)
Apparently Ari Gold is based on Rahm Emanuel's little brother.
Thanks Garry
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10.Spam gets 1 response per 12,500,000 emails (www.techradar.com)
But spammers still make money.
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11.Blue vs Red States: Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes (farm4.static.flickr.com)
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12.A Rise in Kidney Stones Is Seen in U.S. Children (www.nytimes.com)
Insane.
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He also says he's running for governor of Alabama in 2014.
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14.The Curious Cook - What’s Hot, What’s Not, in Pots and Pans (www.nytimes.com)
I didn't know McGee wrote for the Times.
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15.Projected Electoral Votes Based on Polls (electoral-vote.com)
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16.Pocketful of Dough - Tips on Tipping (www.gourmet.com)
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17.Train crushes railway sex couple (news.bbc.co.uk)
Really? On the train tracks? I smell a darwin award.
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18.Wind turbines make bat lungs explode (environment.newscientist.com)
I wonder if the bats are still alive after the explosion.
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19.Look Who's Irrational Now (online.wsj.com)
Apparently evangelical christians are less likely to hold certain superstitions. The tone and conclusions are a bit suspect but some of the mentioned studies sound pretty interesting.
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20.The Strangest Factor Yet for Rising Obesity? (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
"Is it possible that the availability of good plumbing has contributed to our national weight gain?"
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21.Scientist use Tetris to study how dreams reinforce learning (www.sciam.com)
I can still see the pieces when I close my eyes.
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22.The diet that really works (women.timesonline.co.uk)
I always thought that the Atkins diet was total insanity, but the low/no carbs part keeps popping up.
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23.In 1973, said Hedegaard, “we got 99 percent of our energy from the Middle East. Today it is zero.” (www.nytimes.com)
Denmark is putting the US to shame.
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24.They Used to Say Whale Oil Was Indispensable, Too (www.nytimes.com)
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25.Traffic jams are not, by and large, caused by flaws in road design but by flaws in human nature (www.nytimes.com)
Book Review - 'Traffic,' by Tom Vanderbilt
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