Game Fodder / Story Fodder

[Setherick]

15,000 years of language cognates: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/linguists-identify-15000-year-old-ultraconserved-words/2013/05/06/a02e3a14-b427-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html

I have the PNAS article that is mentioned in this if anyone is really interested in reading some hardcore linguistics research.

[clockworkjoe]

yaaay cortical stacks on their way! http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/07/tech/brain-memory-implants-humans/index.html?hpt=te_r1

[QuickreleasePersonalitY]

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514581/government-lab-reveals-quantum-internet-operated-continuously-for-over-two-years/

and it might already be obsolete ;3

singularity? pah! old skool...

[Setherick]

Gate to hell: http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/gate-to-hell-found-in-turkey-130329.htm

[Setherick]

Why you should never trust a psychic to do investigative work: http://news.discovery.com/human/psychic-claimed-amanda-berry-dead-130508.htm

[crash2455]

Hah. James Randi issued that contest years ago.

[QuickreleasePersonalitY]

i'm imagining a truly interactive necronomicon http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130509-paper-printed-circuits-electronics-technology-science

origami that can do blood tests?

a Ross Peryton book that smells, looks, tastes, sounds, psis like different zombies?

[Setherick]

i'm imagining a truly interactive necronomicon http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130509-paper-printed-circuits-electronics-technology-science

origami that can do blood tests?

a Ross Peryton book that smells, looks, tastes, sounds, psis like different zombies?

This is good. I'm already working on one posthuman CoC scenario and am looking for fodder for future ones. I'll definitely keep this in mind.

[Capitalocracy]

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Full original article: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/in-virginias-fairfax-county-robbing-banks-for-the-cia

[Setherick]

Crazy triple homicide not far from where my parents live: http://cjonline.com/news/2013-05-07/sheriff-three-bodies-found-franklin-county-farm

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/may/07/ottawa-9am-press-conference-beta/

http://cjonline.com/news/2013-05-12/body-18-month-old-lana-bailey-believed-found-osage-county

[Setherick]

Semi-submerged ghost town: http://www.weather.com/news/science/environment/argentina-ghost-town-photos-20130510

[SageNytell]

The Root Bridges of Cherrapunji (if that doesn't sound like a pulp adventure I'll eat my hat): http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2013/05/08/root_bridges_of_cherrapunji.html?wpisrc=obnetwork

[QuickreleasePersonalitY]

a successful veil-out

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/13/mayan-pyramid-belize_n_3268255.html?utm_hp_ref=canada

[Setherick]

A good quotation? Or the best quotation?

"I have never in my life seen such a swollen pelvic bone. It hid the whole package [and] the scrotum was enlarged. Right now it feels heavy and unreal. We did not talk very often, but he was still my neighbour."

http://m.ibtimes.co.uk/man-sweden-dies-sex-hornet-s-nest-467900.html

[Dom]

Big heists aren't just something from movies and RPGs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22566533