The Black tea of Cahokia...was made from the Yaupon Holly leaves, a plant related to the plant used for Yerba mate in South America, and the Kuding tea of China...
and the author mentions he has a book explaining how the Maya see a 250 year cycle of civilizations, perhaps based on the solar cycles...
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Wired has an article on the lowly Horseshoe Crab, a survivor of the Cambrian extinction.
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Ten World Changing Innovators from PopMech:
actually, more than ten people (some worked as a team) who changed the world for the better but didn't get one ten thousandth of the publicity we give to Justin Bieber.
Headsup Instapundit.
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GM Cow produces allergy free milk.
Ah, but the real problem is not "allergies" but the lactase, which cannot be digested by those who are not Northern Europeans, some Ugandans, or Masai...
It doesn't stop the milk companies from advertising here though...
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science headline of the week:
Spermless mozzies not a turnoff for females
Mozzie is Aussie for mosquitoes, and actually, this is good news for controlling malaria.
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Can a creativity cap help you think better?
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HeirsOfDurin blog updates what is written in Bilbo's contract.
whoops...he did break his contract by taking the Arkenstone...
WETA is releasing it's own copy
the Noble Collection is offering its own version just appeared on TORn, and with it an extremely helpful high-res image of much of the document (which you will be able to order this month for around $40).
heh. as Yogurt says: Merchandising! merchandising!
and talking about Merchandizing: this podcast discusses the Disneyfication of the LOTR franchise, among other things;
Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were both released in 1937? Coincidence? Or not? Join Professor Olsen and Trish Lambert in a conversation about these two works and the men who made them in a new Tolkien Chat format called "Pipeweed on the Porch."
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