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For Hallowe'en: the physics of Cthulhu.

Steve Bodio's radio interview on An Eternity of Eagles is playing now on our local NPR station, but you can (and should!) listen anytime here. Bateleurs, wolf-hunting Kazakh falconers, wind farm mortality and more!

Do slime molds have a form of memory? "Memory" strikes me as overstating the case, but still interesting.

Cache of 140 WWII Spitfires discovered in Burmese jungle: very cool!

... the Spitfires are buried in the original crates with their wings folded back along their bodies, covered in grease and wax paper. Their joints are even tarred and they're expected to be in pristine condition.

Via Adventure Blog.

Shark falls from sky onto golf course

Today's challenge: name a common element uniting Turkish conspiracy politics, a Muslim faith movement, American charter schools, the Poconos, and New Mexico legislative junkets.

The answer: a man named Fethullah Gülen. Claire Berlinski boldly endeavors to make it all comprehensible.

Relocating the Battle of Hastings?

What a joy to stumble across an amazing, beautiful and utterly useless talent that I've never even heard of: contact juggling!

Via Pithless Thoughts.

Giant elk-shaped geoglyph discovered in the Urals, dating to the 6th-3rd millennium B.C.

Hat tip to Forging the Sampo, who also has some good thoughts and quatations on elk in Finnish folklore and the Kalevala.

A virtual tour of Deyrolle, "a kind of magical taxidermy shop" in Paris. Hat tip: Rod Dreher.

For those who, like me, have lost track, here's an update on Kennewick Man. Though I note that the story pointedly avoids discussing the more controversial aspects of the find.

Mysterious and beautiful seasonal patterns in Martian sand dunes: geysers, microbes, or something else?