Monday, April 20, 2009

Recommended Reading

How To Colonize a Nation. Just remember, if you break it, you buy it.

The Big Picture has a roundup of signs of spring, including the many ways people around the world celebrate the vernal equinox. Well, at least those of us in the northern hemisphere.

Debit Card, Credit Card, Charge Card, what's the differences? And which one works best for you?

18 Ways Attention Goes Wrong. That seems like an awful long list for people who may have attention problems.

A expedition in 1930 hoped to find gold in New Guinea. What they found was thousands of people who had no concept of a world outside their island, and they had a movie camera with them to record the event.

America Becomes a Thrift Nation, sort of like we were in the 1930s. Even when money is tight, people tend to look at the bright side.

The story of X -- evolution of a sex chromosome. The male Y chromosome keeps deleting genes that are detrimental to males, while the female X chromosome is busy putting them back in.

The Florida School for Boys was created to reform delinquent teenagers. What it accomplished was to scar them for life.

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