All the fancy artisanal hand-crafted bourbon with the well-designed label and premium price points? Probably comes from the same spigot, says the Daily Beast. The article links to this page, which compiles all the brands and notes who really makes who. I had no idea Four Roses made Bulleit. Next we'll learn that many beers are made by the same enormous distilleries. You can't trust anything anymore!

SCIENCE! Another day, another skull - but this time it has a bonus feature. Ancient brains.

Scientists can piece together the brain-inhabitant's last hours? No. I mean, it's not as if they're hooking it up to a Dreamscape recorder and downloading the memories. I don't know what that means. So let's go to the original story in the Local.

I didn't think many human skulls belonged to animals, but I'm not a paleontologist.

HMMM Questions that don't seem as provocative as they might:

Related, inasmuch as it's a teaster on the internet:

No. Don't.

TIOT That's the Internet of Things, the nebulous and infantile name for the imminent future of interconnected machines. Some people think it'll be overkill. Like this.

If you don't think this is likely, check your email for all the letters you get and don't want but haven't bothered to unsubscribe from. I don't want to unsubscribe from my orange-juice camera.

TRAVEL TIPS From Michael Totten, freelance globe-trotter:

Where he went, and what he saw, make for a fascinating read. Here you go.