Friday, March 30, 2012

Miss Cellania's Links

Aung San Suu Kyi is the Nelson Mandela of Burma. If you don't know of her, you can catch up on the fearless Burmese opposition leader in an excerpt from the book The Lady and the Peacock.

Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos wants to retrieve Apollo 11′s engines from the ocean floor. If he succeeds, they'll still belong to NASA, even 43 years later.

Nick Berry of DataGenetics has calculated the best strategy for winning the game Hangman. You might think you know which letters to pick first to maximize your chance of guessing right, but there’s a lot more involved than you ever considered!




Obamacare allowed Nancy Meyer to buy private health insurance coverage for her daughter, who has a heart defect. Now she regrets that, because private insurance is way worse than government insurance. (via Breakfast Links)

When Social Networks and Body Image Collide. When strangers come together on sites like Pinterest, they can enable eating disorders, if not outright encourage them.

Gwen tried out for a position in the new field of data processing, and aced the test. That surprised everyone around her who assumed that a black woman could never be smart enough, but the machines didn't care who ran them.

Skyrim Hoarders is another pop culture mashup. If you have even a passing familiarity with either part, you'll get a laugh out of how they're put together.

 8 ridiculous pop culture-inspired cookbooks. You, too, can learn to cook like a fictional character, or a fictional chef who cooks fictional food for fictional characters.

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