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  • Stroke me, I’m a primate Now more than ever, we need to touch each other.

    Dr. Nina Jablonski, a primatologist, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist, is professor and head of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She kicks off Saturday at Pop!Tech with a talk on the meaning of human skin, the subject of her book, Skin: A Natural History. She starts by noting what “a phenomenal and exceptional group of primates” she has for an audience. She asks each of us to look to his or her neighbor, and touch for about 20 seconds. She suspects that some of us haven’t done much touching this morning; she worries that we are too wired, surrounded by our cell phones and technology to even think about the great…

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  • Does Trump have a time machine? Tesla's stolen research, and some freaky coincidences. Here's my theory.

    Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943 and the world mourned the passing of a great mind. Especially Serbia – Tesla’s homeland – which at the time was a loose confederation of potato farming communes not generally known for thinking much about anything. Two days later, FBI NYC notified Hoover of Tesla’s death and shared a report that his safe has been raided by family and colleagues. The Office of the Alien Property Custodian – an agency now known for seizing half a billion dollars worth of private property during WWII – became involved and decided to make off with his entire estate. Two truck loads of Tesla stuff checked…

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    63 things you didn’t know about Arnold Schwarzenegger Did you know his Nazi father favored his older son because he believed his wife had cuckolded him?

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