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* Remembering the Tulsa "Race Riot" (Massacre would be a more appropriate title I think) 90 years later: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/us/20tulsa.html

Three hundred people were murdered and 8000 left homeless when whites burnt an African American community to the ground. No compensation of any kind was paid for all that was lost and no one punished for the murders and property damage. Only 40 survivors are left, and if anything is to be done, it really needs to happen soon.

* 17 million year old hominoid tooth; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110622072744.htm

* Otzi's last meal: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-scientists-iceman-otzi-meal.html

* More bones from a 5000is year old tomb in Orkney: http://www.scotsman.com/news/Charnel-house-gives-up-its.6786940.jp

* Seventeen victims of a medieval English pogrom found in a well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13855238

Only six were over the age of 15. The youngest was two. Damn.

* Celtic Princess burial; http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/pictures/110621-celtic-princess-tomb-gold-amber/

* Coconut genetics and human migration; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110624142037.htm

* 9th century viking remains in Dublin: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/9th-century-Viking-skeletal-remains-found-in-Dublin-124154204.html

* I have decided I'm done with balsam in scent blends.

* Geek wedding cakes: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2011/06/sunday-sweets-geek-wedding-cakes.html

* An interesting discussion of Lady Gaga's use of inappropriate words in "born This Way:" http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/964645.html