No Black Hole Or Magnetic Monopole: Tunguska Really Was a Meteor davide-nature writes "The mysterious blast that flattened 2,000 square km of a remote Siberian forest in 1908 has been blamed on the most bizarre causes, such as an exotic elementary particle left over from the Big Bang, a black hole or, of course, aliens, including in the double-episode 'Tunguska' of The X-Files. But a new analysis of tiny rock samples suggests that a more mundane explanation ...
June 11, 2013 - Slashdot
Facebook Ends ‘Sponsored Stories’ Advertisements Facebook announced that it will no longer offer advertisers the ability to place Sponsored Stories, controversial advertisements that turn your social media activity into a commercial. Sponsored Stories are a way for advertisers to take your actions on Facebook and pay to share them with the world. Naturally, though, companies are uninterested in your old photos and mundane updates – they’re ...
June 11, 2013 - Techland
“The Big, Bad, Book of Beasts:” odd and wonderful animals Michael Largo’s compendium “The Big, Bad Book of Beasts” finds the strange and wonderful in the animal kingdom, from the microscopic to the mundane.
June 9, 2013 - Seattle Times
Seth Green in Baltimore Sun Lampooning pop culture, as "Robot Chicken" always does, the special "takes something that you know about, and explains why it's silly," says Green, "or points out what COULD have happened, just off-screen. We love to emphasize the mundane in...
Paris Hilton in guardian.co.uk The letter to Mr Schwarzenegger says Ms Hilton should be freed because "she provides hope for young people all over the US and the world. She provides beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives."