Monday, March 24, 2008

Good Reads and Information

A new study is challenging the long-standing notion that the whole solar system formed from the same raw materials. They just don’t have the same chemistry, which is a classic brush-off if I’ve ever heard one.

If your name is similar to a name on the federal watchlist of suspected terrorists and drug dealers, you may have a hard time buying a car, using a credit card, or using your PayPal account. But now there’s a hotline to inquire about it.

In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy. “Infants have their infancy; adults, adultery.”

Writers Who Suffered From the Sylvia Plath Effect. Luckily for me, serious mental illness only seems to affect creative and successful women writers.

People are driving less, so why do gas prices keep rising? The answer doesn’t make me feel any better about filling up.

“The most complicated thing that humans have ever built” describes CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ready to open next month. Here are some jaw-dropping pictures and statistics.

Sexual extortion in the US Immigration service.

How to find lost web pages.

9 Big Names Who Lived Above the (Tax) Law.

Scientists find giant marine life in a recent Antarctic sea survey. The 30,000 specimens collected include starfish that are 2 feet across and jellyfish with 12 foot tentacles!

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