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July 11, 2013

In Passing #75

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The one-year rollover of ObamaCare because of its "complexity" suggests it's time to call in the physicists, the people who study black holes and death stars. Daniel Henninger: Big Government Implodes - WSJ.com

At age 79, Syd Mead is still the best sci-fi visual futurist on earth (as we know it). Huckberry | The Present Future

Europe’s debt-crisis strategy is near collapse. The wheels are coming off the whole of southern Europe - Telegraph

Three B-17s and two PV-2s laden with 10,000 pounds of death-dealing cargo each would carry out their missions “with the City of Sarasota and eastern Manatee as their targets.” Ants Go Marching - Issue 3: In Transit - Nautilus

To Avoid Cyber Espionage, Russia's Switching Back to Typewriters

“And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, / Went home and put a bullet through his head” Reading Poems Backward : The New Yorker

June 1937. “Child of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi to the Panhandle." KA-CHING! • June 1937

The science of how much we suck The Periodic Table Of Humanity's Worst Vices [Infographic] | Popular Science

A recent report commissioned by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reviewed the health benefits of reducing salt intake and the take-home message is that salt, in the quantities consumed by most Americans, is no longer considered a substantial health hazard. The Sound Of Settled Science - Small Dead Animals

Steve Sailer: Why are blacks moving to conservative southern states? You might almost think that blacks find they do better in Republican-run states that are pro-jobs....

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 11, 2013 10:34 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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The thing about fire ants may be obsolete. There's a new strain, first observed in Pearland, TX, known as 'crazy Raspberry' ants (Raspberry being the name of the tech that identified them); (1)they kill fire ants, (2) they could care less about people (they don't sting).
They do, however, have a fondness for electrical equipment

Posted by: ed in texas at July 11, 2013 4:03 PM

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