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    When Scientists Stretch The Truth To Make Discoveries Seem Important

    I don't think this happens often in science, but I have to question whether the lead scientist's personal frame of reference influenced his rather inflated claims. Million Mummy Discovery Under Dispute A massive cemetery with up to 1 million mummies has reportedly been found in Egypt, but the announcement of the discovery apparently landed a U.S. research team in hot water, and possibly even kicked off the project. Archaeologists from Brigham Y… Read at Google+

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    What Feminists Really Want

    … For Christmas Two Women Hilariously Remind Us What Feminists Really Want For Christmas We just found the song of the holiday season — and it’s got the perfect mix of Christmas cheer and patriarchy-smashing. The Doubleclicks, described as a “nerd-pop-folk sister duo from Portland, Oregon” on their YouTube page, wrote “… Read at Google+

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    Where I'll Be Christmas Eve

    Until about 1130pm, I'll be singing at the late service. The earlier service will be "Las Posadas" but probably not like how they do it in New Mexico: they're using a door borrowed from a local theatre group. If I were involved I would have made them go all around the church, in the cold, in the dark. We have enough exterior doors to make it work (there's a tradition song, with verses sung at each neighbor's door). Christmas Eve At St Nicholas December 24 – 4pm Las Posadas, 9pm Lessons and Carols Christmas Eve December 24 4pm Family Service…

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    Cover Blown

    Cover Blown Undercover police officer pulls gun on Oakland protesters after cover blown Demonstrators against police violence ‘surged’ on officers amid a reported tussle Read at Google+

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    Fightin' Otters in Second Life

    I need to hop inworld to Abraminations to pick up an otter AV for my alt. And it looks like one of the otters in this video is wearing a hat I made! SL Video: “Christmas with Fighting Otters at Abranimations “ (Click here if the video does not play) By Saffia Widdershins, ” Abranimations is one of the Second Life stores with an Advent calendar this year – and owner Abramelin Wolfe is giving away some great gifts – including these c… Read at Google+

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    Literary Soup:Smaug's American Cousin

    Literary Soup:Smaug's American Cousin Tolkien’s death of Smaug: American inspiration revealed John Garth: As well as its familiar roots in Icelandic mythology, this Middle-earth story also has some surprising transatlantic sources Read at Google+

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    International SUV of Mystery!

    Who is the incredibly bad driver in the silver Beemer SUV? The Calgary Police would like a word. This Driver Is REALLY Bad At Getting Out Of A Parking Lot More sympathetic to this driver’s plight, we could not be. We HATE driving. We especially hate parking and getting out of parking spaces. Our visual-spatial skills and spatial reasoning abilities are not up to par. Throw snow into the equation and… Read at Google+

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    Booty Call

    My dogganiece Rosie has booties, must call her parents and see if there's video of her in her booties. Let These Dogs Trying Their Booties For The First Time Bring You a Minute of Joy Cheezburger.com – Crafted from the finest Internets. Read at Google+