September 2009
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Iran Replaces the Dollar with the Euro →
You may recall what happened to another oil-rich Middle Eastern country shortly after they did the same thing…
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Carl Jung and the The Holy Grail of the... →
This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.” Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and...
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WatchSurreal video of a tiny fisherman swept out to see and rescued by tiny men in a tiny helicopter. Filmed with time-lapse and tilt-shift photography. The song by Megan Washington is catchy, too!
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Would you like this guy sticking needles in your...
BOISE, Idaho – When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he’ll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver’s arms, as he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein.”I was looking at people’s arms and hands, thinking, ‘I could draw from that,’”...