On Sunday, the password system of Gawker was hacked. After examining more than 188,000 passwords, The Wall Street Journal published a list of the Top 50.
Here’s the Top 10:
More than 3,000 people had 123456 as their password. You’re asking to have your account hacked like that.
After compiling five years of data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, The New York Times released an in-depth, interactive map that compiles lots of data. You can look across the entire country and plot areas by racial composition, median income, percentage of same-sex couples, and many other categories. It’s addictive.
[c/o Darcy and DCist]
What killed Mozart? Well, apparently nobody knows. The world-renowned composer died in 1791 at the age of 35. Since then, literally hundreds of theories have emerged about what killed him.
Scientist Lucien Karhausen writes in British Medical Journal after analyzing hundreds of scientific papers on the subject. Following a close examination of the relevant material, he identified more than 140 separate conditions that scientists proposed as the cause of death. He concludes “most, if not all” of the explanations must be wrong, since Mozart only died once.
Karhausen finds that the explanations for his death have grown more outlandish with time. Since his death, scientists have identified 27 distinct psychiatric conditions as present in the composer.
Archaeologists in China have discovered a sealed pot of soup that could date back more than 2,400 years. While working on an extension to the airport in Xian, an ancient capital. That area is the location of the famed terracotta warriors.
“The discovery will play an important role in studying the eating habits and culture of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC),” one scientist said.
During the excavation, scientists found a sealed, bronze cooking vessel. Inside the pot, they found a green liquid (turned that color from the oxidation of the bronze) and bones. In the same tomb, they located an odorless liquid, believed to be wine.
40 million foreigners actually, if you believe a figure from the Confucius Institute. That means Chinese is the trendy language to learn. Apparently, it’s good on a resume, as well.
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