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Wine Fraud and Cesium 137


French physicist Philippe Hubert uses gamma rays to detect radioactivity in wine In the wine is the story of the Atomic Age he says

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/03/318241738/how-atomic-particles-became-the-smoking-gun-in-wine-fraud-mystery
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25 Leaders of the Worst Genocides



          http://list25.com/25-leaders-responsible-for-the-worst-genocides-ever-committed/1/
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Saving the Feynman Van


http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/may-2014/saving-the-feynman-van?email_issue=499
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Three years of Of the Sun In A Four Minute Video


http://www.sciencedump.com/content/three-years-sun-4-minutes-video?utm_source=ScienceDump+News&utm_campaign=fbe8f30dd3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ab3c58e0d1-fbe8f30dd3-55785881
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XKCD: The TED Talk


                                 http://boingboing.net/2014/06/02/xkcd-the-ted-talk.html
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If you're on the beach, this map shows you what's across the ocean

http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/05/22/if-youre-on-the-beach-this-map-shows-you-whats-across-the-ocean/

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How South Koreans Unclog Toilets

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The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses

http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-wrong-way-to-treat-child-geniuses-1401484790
We need more math majors who don't become mathematicians—more math-major doctors, more math-major high-school teachers, more math-major CEOs, more math-major senators. But we won't get there until we dump the stereotype that math is worthwhile only for child geniuses.
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Manta Rays! Airborne! All The Way! Every Day!



http://news.distractify.com/fun/over-10000-of-these-ocean-creatures-mysteriously-gathered-and-then-they-took-flight/?v=1
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Octopuses In The Night, Exchanging Glances, Wondering at the Sight, What Were The Chances...

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