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Top 10 Scientists Killed or Injured by Their Experiments (plus one). These stories are cautionary, inspiring, and bizarre at the same time.
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The History of Guerrilla Marketing. Part one in a series on how businesses use unconventional tactics to advertise on a small budget.
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Is your kitchen wasting energy? Here’s a 33-point checkup.
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Bo Burnham sings about New Math. It doesn’t make any sense, but that’s the way new math is.
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How a Cold War defense project led to MySpace and YouTube.The 50-year history of the internet, told by the people who made it happen.
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5 Ways to Cause a Man-Made Earthquake. Kids, don’t try this at home!
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10 Operas You Didn’t Know You Already Like. You know the songs; you just didn’t know where they came from.
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The lynch mobs of old Los Angeles. Gang violence in the city is older than you may have thought!
The scientists link is fascinating, though I think the author gave Marie Curie short shrift compared to the male scientists mentioned (maybe because most people know about Marie Curie).
Did you know however that her lab notes are still too radioactive to handle without protection and that her bones glow within her tomb?
posted by Julia on 6-5-2008 at 7:29 pm