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July 10, 2013

In Passing #74

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The flame is stronger and has a better chance. Cigarette cards: The life hacks of 100 years ago - The Week

Our pipits differed across islands, not just in beak shape but in overall size, the length of their legs, and the size of their wings, too. The role of chance in evolution – Lewis Spurgin – Aeon

A watercolor drawing by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart of his ear compared to an ordinary earMozart had weird ears

DNA from a cave in Russia adds a mysterious new member to the human family.The Case of the Missing Human Ancestor

Depending on your tour guide, you may learn about the legends of the moving doll and the haunted upstairs room. Robert Frost Farm | Atlas Obscura

Chengdu's New Century Global Centre has its own beach resort, cinemas, shops – and a replica Mediterranean village Largest building in the world opens in China

It's like leaving a note for your roommate—the mailman won't see that. Unless the mailman kicks in your door/the NSA subpoenas your email provider. So, You Want to Hide from the NSA?

The most dangerous ways to open wine

Hard work but somebody has to do it. Beer festival closes early – after running out of beer

Yes, let's: Let’s Call Bullshit on Jim Carrey’s Twitter Apology to Assault Rifle Owners – Flavorwire

"We may have very big crystals at the centre of the Earth, maybe up to 10km," says Hirose. TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): The center of the earth may be made of crystals

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 10, 2013 3:14 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

Your Say

Sign a petition to get rid of the Bill of Rights!
http://youtu.be/k0he0cqHH20

Mark Dice asks California beach goers if they'll sign a petition showing support for Obama in his quest to repeal the Bill of Rights. People sign it.

Posted by: Potsie at July 10, 2013 8:35 AM

Gerard, you set the bar pretty damn high for eclectic.

One wonders where you wander, wending your way down the path of life.

OK, pardon the clumsy alliteration, I ran outta W words. Would that it were willful.

Posted by: chasmatic at July 10, 2013 10:08 AM

Willful wor wot, woo war will won wascally wabbit.

Posted by: vanderleun at July 10, 2013 11:12 AM

Speaking as one of Flavorwire's motherf%cking maniacs, I'd just like to say that I don't care what Jim Carrey thinks about me and don't recall having tried to intimidate him into anything. Maybe he's just losing his mind.

Posted by: Joel at July 10, 2013 11:21 AM

The center of the earth MAY be filled with marshmellow cream, too. Not a very good chance, I give you, but its possible, at some infinitesimal level.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 10, 2013 12:36 PM

Whoa. Wonderfully wicked wordplay fwom the wizard.

Posted by: chasmatic at July 10, 2013 2:31 PM

Actors spend their career doing trivial things. Many of them eventually recognize this and are desperate to do something that has significance and is serious. That's when they start lecturing us. Well, they don't really lecture us, they lecture the people MSLSD and the other alphabet networks tell them about. So when noted sociologist Rosie O'Donnel or Jeff Spicoli lecture in public they are only talking to the inbreeding, moonshining, hill people on the payroll of the Koch brothers. The other 315 million Americans are just innocent bystanders.

Posted by: Scott M at July 11, 2013 3:23 AM

Just now you learn about Homo neanderthalensis denisova?

Posted by: Alan Kellogg at July 11, 2013 8:53 PM

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