20 May 2013
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Born today in 1799:
Honoré de Balzac |
NEWS
- Outlaw narwal tuskers pinched
- Planet dicovered, orbiting next-door neighbor star
- Prince of “Sealand” Roy Bates (1921-2012)
- New “few-toothed worm eater” rodent discovered
- Mona Lisa, the Younger (?)
- Goat-ear poaching on the rise in Kentucky
- Glass table explodes on a whim
- Five moons now for Pluto
- Enormous stone structures & animal reliefs, 12K years before present
- Kirk Sorensen on fission energy from thorium
- Lab rats turning back the clock with buckyball-infused olive oil?
- Coin Shrinkers Я Us
- Ultimate random number generator (live and online)
- Cow bottleneck: 10,500 years ago, only 80 or so ancestors
- Mona Lisa’s twin painting discovered
- Yes, Sir, That’s My Bebe? (I’d be skeptical.)
- New nickel foam/lattice, lighter than aerogel
- The official plain M&Ms colors, 1941-2011
- A seriously disconcerting Holloween mask
- Thai “life-threatening toothpaste,” etc.
- New directions in marketing
- Mystery solved: the makings of that florid Al Jazeera logo
Al Jazeera
DailyNK (North Korea uncensored)
Cassini Saturn Mission
Curiosity Mars Mission
Damn Interesting
Dawn Vesta/Ceres Mission
English Russia
Listverse
MarsNews.com
NASA Science News
Newser
News of the Weird
Salon
Science Daily
SharedList.org - Free online list directory
Slashdot
Slate
The Straight Dope
Wired News
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I frequently compile a list of books and other media that either pique my interest
or that I’ve already owned and enjoyed. Then I run that list through a kind of
sibylline algorithm that analyzes various criteria and extracts the 50% or so
that (it thinks) should be the most intriguing to other people besides
just me.
The ones you see here pop up randomly from these finalists. You
can click that refresh icon at the lower left to see a different set.
Individual sections on this site draw from other, differently specialized
assortments.
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- 7. Cool places by satellite (5 Parts)
- 8. Online temperature conversion for 70 different scales
- 9. Stanton Friedman’s site (WEB CLIENT)
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- 10. Lee Speigel’s site (WEB CLIENT)
- 11. World’s rarest things, Part 1 (uranium, shilajit, Manni olive oil, heavy water, 100-year-old balsamic vinegar, Château Pétrus, weird currency)
- 12. World’s rarest things, Part 2 (rose alba, agarwood, buckminsterfullerene, buckypaper, Tyrian purple, red mercury, silphium, Semper Augustus, byssus, vicuña, Escorial wool)
- 13. World’s rarest metals (Or, what’s $1 billion per troy ounce?)
- Real-life shortwave espionage: The mysterious Lincolnshire Poacher “numbers” station [mp3 2.2M]
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(or something like that) 
