[BRAIN CANDY] News of note for Feb. 7
Atlas Obscura

Why men get more navel lint than women
National Geographic

One fish frozen while eating another
Bleeding Cool

RIP Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica)
Scientific American





Born in Los Angeles in 1949, Harry Turtledove is an author of speculative fiction – especially alternate history – such as The Guns of the South and the Worldwar series. Turtledove, a former treasurer of the Science Fiction Writers of America, originally published under the pseudonym of “Eric G. Iverson” because an editor…
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