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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #630 on: May 07, 2013, 08:53:08 AM »
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.
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« Reply #631 on: May 07, 2013, 09:54:35 PM »

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« Reply #632 on: May 07, 2013, 11:36:16 PM »
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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #634 on: May 09, 2013, 08:28:41 AM »
Why you should never trust a psychic to do investigative work: http://news.discovery.com/human/psychic-claimed-amanda-berry-dead-130508.htm
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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #635 on: May 09, 2013, 10:31:48 AM »
Hah. James Randi issued that contest years ago.

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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #636 on: May 10, 2013, 10:14:42 AM »
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?
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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #637 on: May 10, 2013, 06:22:26 PM »
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.
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« Reply #638 on: May 10, 2013, 09:21:41 PM »
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Full original article: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/in-virginias-fairfax-county-robbing-banks-for-the-cia

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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #640 on: May 12, 2013, 01:23:47 PM »
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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #641 on: May 13, 2013, 09:45:15 PM »
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

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« Reply #643 on: May 15, 2013, 08:35:12 PM »
A good quotation? Or the best quotation?

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"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."

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Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« Reply #644 on: May 17, 2013, 10:30:09 AM »
Big heists aren't just something from movies and RPGs.

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