It starts out like a Jason Bourne movie. There’s a plane. A body. And mountains of cash (67 tons of it) on pallets running the length of a cavernous wide-body cargo plane. The MD-11 wide-body cargo…
Source: Dripping blood, a severed arm, & 67 tons of cash on a CIA plane | MadCowNews
Sometimes I’ll meet someone who mentions having written a book, and who then adds, ‘… well, an academic book, anyway,’ as if that didn’t really count.
Source: The 20 Most Influential Academic Books of All Time: No Spoilers | Open Culture
An evolutionary burst 540 million years ago filled the seas with an astonishing diversity of animals.
Source: What sparked the Cambrian explosion? : Nature News & Comment
2015 saw a record rise in homegrown violence and extremism that matched the rise of discriminatory and hateful rhetoric from mainstream political figures., Domestic terrorism, extremism, hate groups, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC,
Source: 2015: The Year US Political Leaders Fanned The Flames Of A Nation ‘Awash’ In Hate
A new study suggests there’s some science behind the claims made for mindfulness meditation.
Source: How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body – The New York Times
