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• 10 ways bicyclists can avoid getting hit by cars (h/t Jack Bogdanski)

• Anatomy of the Incredible Hulk

• Brian Palmer: How Many People Are At Least 1/32 Native American?

• Daniel Kalder: “Right now it seems as if the leadership of the entire planet is coming up for election. At least that’s the impression I get from the news: there are changes of leadership everywhere, or at least in those places where the population is allowed to have a say in such matters. But when I look at the results, I can’t help thinking that the people coming into power are completely incapable of meeting the challenges of our times.”

• Daniel Terdiman: “For two months last fall, Eric Simons secretly took up residence inside the Internet giant’s Palo Alto, Calif., campus, eating free food, enjoying gym access, and building a startup in the process.”

• Esther Inglis-Arkell: 10 Science Concepts that Could Spawn Awesome Supervillains

• Fred Guteri: “NASA climate scientist James Hanson has warned of a ‘Venus effect,’ in which runaway warming turns Earth into an uninhabitable desert, with a surface temperature high enough to melt lead, sometime in the next few centuries.”

• Jim Goad: “I have trouble accepting the idea that Hitler was a vegetarian. He just didn’t seem that pushy.”

• Jim Romenesko: “Elmore Leonard liked Detroit Free Press reporter Tammy Battaglia’s piece about a roofer saved from electrocution, so he wrote her a nice letter. ‘I read your story the other day about the roofer narrowly dodging death and admire the way you wrote it,’ the crime novelist told the journalist. ‘What I admire the most is the sound of your writing, your effortless style.’”

• More Kalder: “I would therefore like to make a modest proposal, a test for those lacking documentation of their tribal lineage but who would nevertheless like to advance their academic or political careers by claiming to be a Native American. Can you rope a steer while on horseback and then cut out and eat its liver, like Herman [Lehmann]? Elizabeth Warren, are you ready?”

• Occupy Bilberberg 2012

• The Smoking Gun: Bacon Lover In Piggly Wiggly Rampage

• Timm Rautert’s photographs of the Amish (h/t Lucy Steigerwald)

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