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http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/01/17/managing_nerds.html This is an excellent definition of nerds and the way they operate.

http://visuallearningresearch.wiki.educ.msu.edu/file/view/Harp+%26+Mayer+(1998).pdf Seductive details (unrelated, interesting facts) don't help students remember.

http://propertiesfabrication.blogspot.com/2011/10/molding-and-casting-oh-my.html A step-by-step guide to casting disposable props quickly and cheaply.

http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_cannonballrun?currentPage=all Setting the record for the fastest trip across America takes a ridiculous amount of planning.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature4.php&issue=2011-10-01 An article on the trial of Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/10/051010crat_atlarge?currentPage=all Malcolm Gladwell on the history of Ivy League applications.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/10/ff_radioactivecargo/all/1 The story of a shipping container accidentally loaded with radioactive metal.

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/trust-issues.php?page=all An article about long-running trusts including a thousand-year trust given to a small college.

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2011/jay-z-and-alan-lomax/ How a folk song collector wound up as the legal co-author of a Jay-Z diss track.

http://civilwarstoriesofinspiration.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/rebel-snowball-wars-fighting-winter-boredom/ Historical accounts of a snowball battle between northern and southern armies in the Civil War.