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New materials provide insight into radioactivity in the environment, self-assembling nanostructures and genetic fingerprints yield insights into health of diverse ecosystems

StrangeWire: Your source for all your paranormal news needs. Asking the difficult questions such as, "DO ORGAN TRANSPLANTS TRANSFER MEMORIES?" (Because, "according to this study of patients who have received transplanted organs, particularly hearts, it is not uncommon for memories, behaviours, preferences and habits associated with the donor to be transferred to the recipient.") Cue eerie music.

Curious Georgette: Endometriosis not for easily grossed-out monkey-men more inside

BookCrossing. Release your old books into the wild, and track their movements. Or find a book and send it on its way. It's becoming a popular way for authors to get their books read, too. more inside

No one with a user number of 1 is allowed to read this. I thought about putting this on the wiki, but am not sure enough of us are reading it at this point. Two seminal events are approaching, and we need to get organized. Sometime around June 26, a baby will be born unto our goddess and fearless leader and her consort. July 27 is tracicle's birthday. Presents seem appropriate, since she and #2 have given us a place to play, and argue, and flame out and enjoy. more inside

Unknown Species of Dinosaur Found From the article in the LA Times, registration required: The scientists acknowledged that they owed the discovery to the troubled conscience of a man named Lawrence Walker, who found the creature while poaching fossils from federal lands, digging only at night hidden under a tarpaulin. He had sold several of the fossil fragments at mineral shows. more inside

BMX film Astounding riding in 10Mb clip of Corey Martinez. winmedia or quicktime (both embedded)

Dome Improvement Now they say that the constant dumbing down of society is to be blamed for the Flynn effect!? (via)

Save the antelope [mpg]

Doctor Who Top Trumps (via viewropa)

Curious, George: What exactly is a "hollaback girl"?

Daily Show correspondent Stephen Colbert is getting his own show. Where the Daily Show makes fun of news broadcasts, Colbert's show is supposed to make fun of talking heads. Hopefully, it'll be good.

Whizzball! Like you were getting any work done with the #@%! zombie game anyway . . .

A local Onion clone - but funny! This newspaper from my fair city has been publishing erratically in print for a couple years and it's really pretty good. They seem to actually be updating their website now (huzzah!) so you monkeys can share the giggles. They also seem to have a blog (but then, who doesn't?) which I haven't really read carefully yet but hey! It's Wednesday! Read & giggle! Or chortle. Or smile sadly.

<b>Curious George: </b> I am in Centipede Hell more inside

"Then you'll have a little bit down at the bottom, the white stuff, and that's your meth."

Do you speak American? PBS put together a site to go along with its broadcast special (premiered in January) that's chock full of linguistic goodness! Take a quiz or check out the dictionary. more inside

Teh Steve Moustache Show!1! I laughed, I cried, I got my daily fill of internet stupid. (wmv videos)

The Prank Place offers everything from truck nutz to, um, the dancing toilet turd. Not for the faint of heart nor the stupid-humor-challenged. But for the rest of us, a gross gag goldmine!