A new hominid species found in South Africa may be the link between australopithecines and humans. The two skeletons are two million years old and have been named Australopithecus sediba.
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These chairs are not stolen goods! There’s a perfectly good explanation of how the seller came to possess them.
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How the Mona Lisa was stolen in broad daylight in 1911. They might have caught the thief if it hadn’t taken an entire day for the painting to be noticed as missing! (via Metafilter)
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7 Disruptive Foods Changing the Way We Eat. Foods of the future are so different they might not even be food at all!
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How far does diplomatic immunity go? What was designed to safeguard foreign representatives from harassment can become a license for mayhem.
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Cash Cab star Ben Bailey finds out what humans are made of. It makes kicking them out of the cab all that much easier.
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Union Rules for family members. If anyone wants to shake up the status quo, they’ll have a real battle ahead!
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TV Characters Who Suffered from Chuck Cunningham Syndrome. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, then the producers’ schemes have worked perfectly.
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I would love to get into the Cash Cab with Ben Bailey…but I might be a little weirded out after that video… HA HA ‘Meat… They’re made of Meat.’
posted by old hippy chick on 4-9-2010 at 7:18 am
Oh my goodness, I can’t believe that ebay listing is for real!!!!!!!!!
posted by Katie Rose on 4-9-2010 at 11:15 am
The very first story my art history teacher told us was the one about the Mona Lisa being stolen…and how the police thought Picasso stole it!
posted by Meg on 4-9-2010 at 1:01 pm
It took me a moment to remember that Chuck Cunningham was Richie’s older brother on Happy Days, who walked up the stairs, never to return. I haven’t yet read the article, but I hope that little Richie from Family Matters is on that list too, even though everyone knew and was supposed to love him before he mysteriously disappeared.
posted by VitaminD on 4-11-2010 at 5:19 pm