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chris_gerrib ([personal profile] chris_gerrib) wrote2012-06-01 08:57 am

Friday Link Salad

They go bad if I leave them over the weekend:

1) Federal judge blocks Florida voter suppression law.

2) There's a group of people in Appalachia called "Melungeons" who claim exotic ancestry. Based on DNA research, they are really just mixed-race white and black.

3) Paul Krugman on the oversized egos of Wall Street types.

4) Roger Ebert has some interesting reflections on John Wayne.

5) In space news, Soviet lander discovered water on the Moon in 1976.

6) The question is, is this the key to vastly better batteries?

7) A 19-year-old Egyptian student may have invented a new type of space engine. Will future spacefarers call it the "Mustafa Drive?" In other space news, Mars One.