Links for Thursday 8 May 2008

Hewing Jungles and Mountains for World’s Greatest Highway (Jun, 1934) - Modern Mechanix brings us an article from 1934 about the construction of the Pan-American Highway.

Colossal Castle or Humble Home? Same Price – Your Choice - Divine Caroline discusses what half or a million dollars will get you in some major US cities versus the rest of the world, I think I’ll move to France now.

Amazing pictures: The lightning storm that engulfed an erupting volcano - Great pictures from the Daily Mail of the volcano that is erupting in southern Chile.

How China gets its troops to stand to attention - Another nice article from the Daily Mail about how China gets its troops to stand at attention, by using pins and crosses.

The bone detective - Finally, we learn that more women are becoming forensic anthropologists than men, interesting shift.