• Wooden Shigir idol found to be over twice as old as Egyptian pyramids (Phys.org)
• When Milky Got His Money (Esquire) An Australian was allowed to overdraw his account to the tune of over a million Australian dollars. Much hilarity ensues
• 10 of the Most Sociopathic Washington Post Columns (FAIR) The only columnist with multiple cites is ……… wait for it ……… Richard Cohen!
• Neanderthals etched a message on this 36,000-year-old stone tool (Ars Technica) Just so cool
• Flirting with Liberals: A Critical Examination of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) (The Hampton Institute) A Marxist critique of DSA for not being Marxist enough. I disagree, but this should be read.
• Mystery pooper at N.J. high school’s track turned out to be superintendent, cops say (NJ.com) It was on the rival school football field. That old school spirit.
• The coming media whitewash of John McCain’s career (Oliver Willis) Any obit should mention Sarah Palin and the Keating 5 prominently.
• One space between each sentence, they said. Science just proved them wrong. (Washington Post) I, a compulsive 2 spacer, find vindication.
• Gmail’s ‘Self Destruct’ Feature Will Probably Be Used to Illegally Destroy Government Records (Motherboard) This is a feature, not a bug.
• Alan Turing’s chemistry hypothesis turned into a desalination filter (Ars Technica) Imagine what we would have learned if bigotry had not ended his life early.

Anyone remember transparent aluminum from Star Trek 4? (It’s actually a ceramic in which aluminum figures prominently)