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Why we kiss
Ninety percent of all people in the world kiss. Even though it inevitably involves the exchange of saliva and mucous membrane...
Riveting stuff
The story goes that Levi Strauss, founder of Levi Strauss & Company, insisted on calling his denim work pants "waist-high overalls" rather than "jeans"...
Lethal generosity
Ad Age's Books page (adage.com/bookstore) has an interesting review on a book called Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods...
Association of genius
When the so-called Father of Microbiology, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, first witnessed the microbes in a drop of water in which he had suspended some...
Death of a Geopoet
"Utter, damned rot!" was the response of the president of the American Philosophical Society...
La révolution chimique
The day after the guillotining of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, on May 8, 1794, mathematician Joseph...
One helluva sum
The World Digital Library, a globe-spanning project which aims to make humankind's accumulated...
Hacks and innovations for the digital age
Google's fledgling search engine Chrome, barely out of beta, has morphed into an operating system...
Julius Shulman
Creator of some of the most celebrated images of modernist architecture, has died aged 98...
Paper Toss
A most addictive iPhone app (this link will only work if you've got iTunes installed)...
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