Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Miss Cellania's Links

Why We Sing Auld Lang Syne on New Year’s Eve.

10 Incredible Real-Life Mad Scientists. (via Environmental Graffiti)

Born With Ambiguous Genitalia. (via Ed Yong)

A Theory of Absolutely Everything.

In 1964 Canadian writer Graeme Gibson bought a parrot in Mexico. The rest of the story is a bit sad. (via Nag on the Lake)

12 Surprising Facts You Might Not Know About Anchorman. Just in time, because you want to be fully informed before seeing the sequel.

7 Food Typos That Make Us Cringe. If you're guilty of any of these, you don't have to admit it -just correct it.

A classic psychological experiment showed how young children are attached to their mothers. Recently, the same experiment showed that dogs are attached to their owners, too …but then there are cats.

The new movie American Hustle is a fictionalized account of the Abscam sting of the late 1970s. Here's the bare bones story of what really happened.

Two 7th graders, Olivia Maloney and Cameron Dreyer, made a short film about an eating disorder for a school project. That film, You Are Beautiful, is now gathering awards on the film festival circuit.

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