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Can someone identify this wildflower? 27 Aug 2013 | 02:21 am
It's nothing important, but we ran across this plant on a hike this weekend and are frustrated because we have been unable to locate it in our guide books. The blossom looks like perhaps a type of ma...
Fixer-upper 26 Aug 2013 | 08:41 pm
You can explore the intricacies of this interesting 1936 dormered cabin in Georgetown County, South Carolina in a wallpaper-size photo at Shorpy.
Godfather-themed Pepsi commercial 26 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm
YouTube link. Wait for it...
The U.S. supported chemical warfare by Saddam against Iran 26 Aug 2013 | 08:31 pm
The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America's military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing t...
How to create artificial cartilage 26 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
Due to a lack of blood vessels and other characteristics, cartilage heals very slowly. One way to accelerate natural cartilage repair and growth is to use tissue engineering, or the artificially-stimu...
Claims of lax oversight of agricultural biotechnology 26 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
YouTube link. A video report from Motley Fool comments on recent accusations that the USDA's current monitoring activities are basically a "rubberstamp" approach to the genetic engineering of crops. ...
Australia's experience with giving up guns 26 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
Recently a young Australian athlete "was shot in the back... as he jogged alongside a road in Oklahoma. One of the three teenagers who, according to police, left him to die in a drainage ditch said: “...
A U.S. map of English as a second language 26 Aug 2013 | 07:49 pm
"More than a quarter of counties in the United States have at least one in 10 households where English is not the language spoken at home. Spanish is, by far, the most common language other than Engli...
Her name was "Mimsie" 26 Aug 2013 | 06:52 pm
YouTube link. In the standard version of the logo, as first used on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mimsie appears in a crouched position, looks up at the camera, and meows once. Mimsie would not meow for...
Words for epeolatrists 26 Aug 2013 | 06:42 pm
A selection of adjectives, from Laurence Urdang’s Modifiers (1982): abbatial, of an abbot buccinal, of trumpets compital, of a crossroads contabescent, of atrophy frumentaceous, of wheat haruspical, ...
