Daily Quippages 05.29.2009

• Wikipedia battles The Church of Scientology, bans IPs for biased editing – via Mashable.

• The NYT has a cool gallery of reader submitted Polaroid photos.

• Kavya Shivashankar, the seventh Indian-American winner in eleven years, takes National Spelling Bee with “Laodicean” – via College News.

• A healthy human hosts about 1,000 bacteria species on his/her skin – via American Scientist.

• Bacteria outnumber human cells 10 to 1 in a healthy human body – via Science Daily 07/2008.

• New Yorkers: check out “Manhattanhenge” this weekend and July 11, 12 – sun sets in precise alignment with street grid – via Space.com.

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