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Stuff I thought was interesting on April 13th:

• The 7 Most Horrifying Things Ever Discovered in a Human Body | Cracked.com – Most experienced surgeons and doctors will say they’ve seen it all. Most surgery is fairly routine, and it’s only occasionally that you slice somebody open and some really crazy shit pops out. Have we found you a list of some of the craziest shit? Why, yes.
• Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe? – According to a mind-bending new theory, a black hole is actually a tunnel between universes—a type of wormhole. The matter the black hole attracts doesn’t collapse into a single point, as has been predicted, but rather gushes out a “white hole” at the other end of the black one, the theory goes.
• How North Koreans See Themselves – And Why it Matters – Immersion in propoganda, race-based nationalism and the un-figure-outable vortex of Juche Thought: Colin Marshall talks to B. R. Myers, author of “The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans see Themselves and Why it Matters“

St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park (U.S.)

Stuff I thought was interesting from March 31st through April 8th:

• 2 more glaciers gone from Glacier National Park – Yahoo! News – Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt, the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday.
• France24 – N.Korea leader sets world fashion trend: Pyongyang – The trademark suit sported by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is now in fashion worldwide thanks to his greatness, Pyongyang’s official website said Wednesday.
• SETI@50: the Wow! signal | COSMOS magazine – The most famous signal in SETI history was detected on the night of 15 August 1977 at the Ohio State University Big Ear Observatory. Has anything happened since?
• Scientists discover first multicellular life that doesn’t need oxygen – The discovery of the new species, which live buried in sediment under the Mediterranean seafloor, is significant in that it marks the first observation of multicellular organisms, or metazoans, that spend their entire lifecycle under permanently anoxic conditions.
• Avatar Dances in Fern Gully’s Dune – An image depicting plot similarities between a series of “hero saves persecuted peoples” films.
• Crisis in Kyrgyzstan – The Big Picture – Boston.com – Widespread anti-government protests in Kyrgyzstan recently turned violent, with groups of opposition protesters attempting to storm some government buildings, and clashing with riot police.
• Stuart Redler
• Landscape Photography by Yorkshire Landscape Photographer Tim parkin
• Using coloured filters with black & white film

Stuff I thought was interesting on March 28th:

• Photoshop’s CAF (content-aware fill) – unbelievable? Not quite. – the real Uqbar –
• University of Illinois student beats the Westboro Baptist Church –
• 40 missing as South Korea warship sinks near North Korea’s border –
• Crowley newborn with heart defect is denied insurance coverage | Health | Dallas-Fort Worth L… –