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Rabies.
Or at least that’s what this article says.
They’re Alive: Real Scientific Reasons to Believe in Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies.
It’s slightly mis-titled, but it’s a pretty good hypothesis/theory of how the beliefs about how werewolves, zombies and (Stoker-esque) vampires came to be.
Here’s an excerpt:
Rabies has several more vampire-like symptoms. It can cause insomnia, which explains the [...]
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Wanted to share a post on the Official Google Blog about Google Books and the importance of projects like it.
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. With rare exceptions, [...]
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I was going to write something in reference to the recent killing of the doctor who had been performing abortions in Kansas, but I came across this post that pretty much summed up what I thought about it.
This sums it up, but I suggest the whole post.a
Since there are no imaginable circumstances in which lethal [...]
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The over-the-top named blog Killer Tech Tips posted a list of “Six Windows Lifesaver Programs That Save You From PC Blunders” they all looked good, but the one that I tried and would totally recommend is DriverMax. This is what KTT has to say about it:
You don’t have a back up of your device drivers. [...]
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So, after my prandicle of a lunch this afternoon I decided to clear out my inbox a bit and I ran across an email from a site that I visited last night. It’s called “Save the Words” and it’s put on by the Oxford Dictionary people. It’s a site that’s encouraging people to pick a [...]
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