Modern Genes Reveal 100 Major Population Shifts In Human History
• http://www.popsci.com, By Francie DiepWherever conquerors go, they leave a little bit of their genetics. Gene analyses of modern people are able to reveal those influences.
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See Inside The Time Capsule Steve Jobs Buried — And Lost — 30 Years Ago
• Business InsiderAt the 1983 Aspen International Design Conference, Steve Jobs gave presentation on the future of technology. He used an Apple Lisa mouse to navigate the presentation before contributing it to a time capsule that would be buried as part of the confere
Confessions of an Unreconstructed ‘Isolationist’
• http://original.antiwar.com, by Justin RaimondoAn appeal to our readers
Scary 1929 market chart gains traction
• marketwatch.comOpinion: If market follows the same script, trouble lies directly ahead
The Peace of 1814
• arcleinPerhaps the federal heritage minister, James Moore, overstated his case when he toldMaclean’s, “This war leads directly to Confederation in 1867.” People are entitled to disagree. But Moore’s critics should read A.R.M. Lower, a Liberal historian, who
Confronting US Militarism with JFK
• arcleinFrom the start, JFK recoiled at the caper's stench, as CIA Director Allen Dulles has acknowledged, demanding assurances from CIA and Pentagon brass that there was no chance of failure and that there would be no need for U.S. military involvement. Du
The Legendary Pot Growers and Moonshiners of Appalachia
• arcleinGenerations of Mistrust of the Government This event had an extremely damaging effect on how the moonshiners viewed authority: they never trusted the government again, and passed down this sentiment to their progeny. Even to this day that sprit of s
Ancient City Found in India, Irradiated from Atomic Blast
• http://veda.wikidot.comRadiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous. A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating the site, where a housing development was being b
Man Keeps 14 Year-old Hamburger
• http://www.youtube.com, KUTV2NewsFast food is meant to be consumed quickly and conveniently, which is why a St. George, Utah mans perfectly-preserved 14 year-old hamburger gets a lot of attention.
Tech Time Warp of the Week: The Horrifying Apple Super Bowl Ad That Time Forgot, 1985
• Wired.comAs the tech world celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh last Friday, we were reminded — time and again — of the iconic Super Bowl ad that announced the arrival of Apple’s world-changing machine.
...100 years of sitting in a shed in Austria, the world's very first Porsche has been uncovered.
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Madeline StoneAfter more than 100 years of sitting in a shed in Austria, the world's very first Porsche has been uncovered in remarkably good condition (via The Atlantic Cities).
Scientists Digitize Psychology’s Most Famous Brain
• http://www.wired.com, By Greg MillerHenry Gustav Molaison is one of the most famous patients in the annals of brain research.
It’s Always World War II
• http://original.antiwar.com, Justin RaimondoIf you’re a warmonger
The Japan-China Conflict Echo
• arcleinThe Chinese professional mentioned the islands in the context of the recent visit by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The Yasukuni Shrine is a Shinto shrine where Japanese killed in Japan's many military conflicts
Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True
• newyorker.comThis month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy about nuclear weapons, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”
Throwback Thursday: 100 Years Ago, Drone Cameras Soared on Kites 2,000 Feet High
• http://www.wired.com, By Doug BierendIf you’re a photographer, one sure way to get ooohs and aaahs these days is to strap your camera to a drone and snap some pictures from the air.
A Comedy Of IMF Forecasting Errors: Global Trade Growth Tumbles More Than 50%...
• zerohedge.comThe comedy of errors that are IMF forecasts is well known: it was covered most recently in "Hilarious Charts Of The Day: IMF's "Growth Forecasts" Over Time."
The Irish Slave Trade
• arcleinThe Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Iris
Has the Sun gone to sleep?
• http://www.bbc.co.ukScientists are saying that the Sun is in a phase of "solar lull" - meaning that it has fallen asleep - and it is baffling them.
Wall Street Movies Seem To Hit Theaters Right Around The Time Of A Big Stock Market Crash
• Business InsiderIf history repeats — and history has a funny way of doing that — then the release of Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" should warn investors of an impending market crash.
We Will Be Told Hyperinflation is Necessary, Proper, Patriotic, and Ethical
• http://mises.org, by Patrick BarronHyperinflation leads to the complete breakdown in the demand for a currency, which means simply that no one wishes to hold it.
The Legendary Pot Growers and Moonshiners of Appalachia
• http://tarrinlupo.hubpages.com, Tarrin P. LupoFor many years Appalachian hillfolk have had a secret: most of the strongest cannabis in the world comes from this mountainous region on the eastern coast of the United States.
Frederic Kaplan: How to build an information time machine
• ted.comImagine if you could surf Facebook ... from the Middle Ages. Well, it may not be as far off as it sounds. In a fun and interesting talk, researcher and engineer Frederic Kaplan shows off the Venice Time Machine, a project to digitize 80 kilometers of
Could a Civil War-Era Law Stamp Out Bitcoin?
• http://www.wired.com, By Robert McMillan“A lot depends on whether the government becomes anxious to move against Bitcoin,” he says. “Whether this is the most appropriate statute under which to control Bitcoin, I’m not so confident.”
Alfred Hitchcock's unseen Holocaust documentary to be screened
• independent.co.ukIt's a little known fact that the great director made a film about the Nazi death camps – but, horrified by the footage he saw, the documentary was never shown. Now it is to be released.
Democracy needs whistleblowers. That's why I broke into the FBI in 1971
• http://www.theguardian.com, Bonnie RainesLike Snowden, we broke laws to reveal something that was more dangerous. We wanted to hold J Edgar Hoover accountable
Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
• http://www.nytimes.com, By MARK MAZZETTIThe perfect crime is far easier to pull off when nobody is watching.
You Say You Want a Revolution? Keep it Non-Violent
• Lewrockwell.comHistory is full of violent revolutions and civil wars. Overthrow the government; disband the state; our guys will be better than their guys.
After 42 years, burglars of FBI 'Cointelpro' docs reveal their roles
• Yahoo! News blog3 former political activists revealed their part in a brazen 1971 burglary of an FBI office outside Philadelphia, where they stole as many as 1,000 documents, enraging FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and exposing a domestic spying operation that
William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
• ted.comHow do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimp
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