Thursday, January 21, 2010

Good Reads and Information

The Truth About Chimps. A group of chimpanzees who have no experience with humans are giving us a new look at what they really are. (via Boing Boing)

A Farewell to Victory. With each war since World War II, it gets harder to tell when a war is over, or even to distinguish who won.

Esther Reed wanted to be someone. She ended up being several people, until the police caught up with her.

Every once in a while, people encounter things on their radio, TV, or interstellar wave detectors that no one can explain. Is it a secret military message, a prankster hacking just to see if it can be done, or aliens trying to contact us?

An experimental community in the New Jersey woods has become a destination for the homeless. As the population goes up and donations go down, idealism goes out the window.

10 Enigmas That Defy Explanation. There are plenty of possibilities -ghosts, aliens, secret government experiments, you know, the usual things. (via I Am Bored)

4 Lost Civilizations (and what might have happened to them). My advice on anything lost is to look behind the dryer, and in the back of the refrigerator.

Genome Study Provides a Census of Early Humans. It turns out that the population explosion is a really recent trend. (via Metafilter)

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