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[conuly]

Coast Guard's last lightkeeper looks to 300-year milestone

The Story Behind the Most Famous Photo from Hurricane Andrew

New York to grow oysters on recycled toilets

Billy Possum: President Taft's Answer to the Teddy Bear

Yellowstone Owes Its Early Success To Public Bear Feeding

Blind people gesture (and why that’s kind of a big deal)

China, world leader in tea, grows a taste for UK blends

Taboos and ancient traditions help one community protect Kenya's forests

NY coalition pushes for reliable work schedules nationally

In Their Struggle for Survival Against Killer Mites, Bees Get an Unlikely Ally: Monsanto

Ivory Coast evicts thousands of cocoa farmers to save forests

Progress slows on uninsured as health law blame game goes on

The Legend of Elden Kidd, America’s Most Dedicated, Most Creative People Smuggler

The Man Who Lit The Dark Web

What teachers around the US spend on supplies

Typhoons that slam Asia getting much stronger

This may be one reason so many federal prisoners end up back in jail

Court Costs Entrap Nonwhite, Poor Juvenile Offenders

The Long Search for the Missing Child Brides of a Mormon Polygamist Sect

The Suicide Catcher

Pvt. Felix Hall died in the only known lynching on a U.S. military base. How hard did the government try to find his killers?

European earthworms decrease species diversity in North America

UNICEF says 28 million children uprooted by global conflict

Comments

[heliopausa]

The article about blind people gesturing was very interesting, though so brief. Thanks. :)

[conuly]

I was surprised, really - I'd assumed that gesturing is always learned behavior, that is, you have to see it or be explicitly taught and there's no real difference between vague gestures and formalized ones like "the finger" or "come here".