Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Miss Cellania's Links

Notes From an Expedition to the Cellfoan People.

Redditor 4ecohgie tells the story of his four grandparents who were all interned in concentration camps during World War II. Follow the whole thread, because it is both fascinating and horrific.

Last year, a group of Sasquatch investigators in Texas announced that they had sequenced Bigfoot's DNA, but they had trouble getting the results published in a scientific journal. Now that data has been published and Ars Technica got a copy. (via Metafilter)

21 Amazing Animals Who Defied The Odds.

Surprisingly, Red Isn’t The Most Dangerous Color You Can Wear Aboard The Starship Enterprise. The statistics of Star Trek: The Original Series tell the real story.

More and more Americans are childless by their own choice. When a logical decision that is good for an individual turns out to be bad for a society, the society will have to change.

Argo and Other Forgivably False “True Story” Films. Does historical accuracy matter that much if the film is really good?

How Britain's Last Hangman Did His Job. Albert Pierrepoint shares the ins and out of execution in the 20th century.

Texas Woman Gives Birth to Two Sets of Identical Twins (at the same time). The odds of this happening are so astronomical, she probably won't do it again.

When your father is a photographer, you get used to modeling at an early age. Photographer Bill Gekas puts his daughter into classic paintings with beautiful results.

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