- 21 April 1994 – Rwandan Genocide | About.com African History
- This Day in African History: first reports of the Rwandan genocide are starting to appear in the international press.
- Ancient Tibetan book reveals 3,000-year-old brain surgery | ABlogAboutHistory.com • by Sevaan Franks
- A study of the Tibetan Tripitaka has revealed that brain surgery was being practiced by doctors at least 2,900 years ago.
- From Alexander Pope to "Splice": a Short History of the Female Mad Scientist | io9 • by Jess Nevins
- The mad scientist is an icon of modern popular culture, but critics have traced its origin back centuries. Yet there seem to be few female mad scientists. Which is odd, because the first significant fictional mad scientist was a woman…
- Recount! – Anaea Lay
- Don’t be misled, I would be completely shocked if the recount changes the outcome. We lost that one. And I believe that we lost it, not that it was stolen. (Though something criminal did go on, even if it was just Niklaus staying in a job at which she must know she was terminally incompetent) …
Sarah Palin coopting our rhetoric is vaguely amusing. Scott Walker doing it must be answered in kind.
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