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No matter how many times I write and rewrite this entry, it always boils down to "ow."

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The Patrick O' Brian mapping project.

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Via silmaril; while not recent, it's still woefully pertinent: A letter from the mother of a gay child to her local newspaper.

Many letters have been sent to the Valley News concerning the homosexual menace in Vermont. I am the mother of a gay son and I've taken enough from you good people.

I'm tired of your foolish rhetoric about the "homosexual agenda" and your allegations that accepting homosexuality is the same thing as advocating sex with children. You are cruel and ignorant. You have been robbing me of the joys of motherhood ever since my children were tiny.

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An underwater view of the BP spill.

ur-squid!

New Canadian research into 500 million-year-old carnivore fossils has revealed an early ancestor of modern-day squids and octopuses, solving the mystery surrounding a previously unclassifiable creature.

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The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has plans to build a base on the Moon by 2020. Not for humans, but for robots, and built by robots, too.