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Public largely tunes out NSA surveillance debate, poll finds

http://lat.ms/1eQRMzT

Heart-warming tale of crowd-sourced decipherment

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=9902

What caused a 10-year winter starting in 536?

http://bitly.com/1jpcLNj

The Racially Fraught History of the American Beard

I have to say, if you read the article and then conclude that a. the author is cruelly declaring anybody who has ever had a beard for any reason to be racist and b. that even though this is a "fluff piece" it is well worth 12+ hours of your life to whine about it in the comments, then it is entirely possible that you are, in fact, a racist. The evidence anecdotal, to be sure, but it IS there.

http://bit.ly/1cNv09n

What Makes a Good Toilet

http://bit.ly/1dpdn44

The Great American Class War: Plutocracy Versus Democracy

http://bit.ly/1c1NTe4