News Briefs 05-02-2013
Posted by Greg at 01:17, 05 Feb 2013Looking forward to Will Storr's The Heretics (pre-order from Amazon UK). Promises to stir up trouble in every direction…
- Skeleton discovered in a car park confirmed as that of English king Richard III.
- Is scientific materialism "almost certainly false"?
- Spooky number of Americans believe in ghosts.
- Reinvestigating haunted houses and challenging previous science and skepticism.
- The FBI once freaked out about Nazi monks in the Amazon rainforest.
- Remote viewing pioneer Ingo Swann has passed away, aged 79.
- Life found almost a kilometre beneath Antarctica.
- Recent scientific findings suggest humans came to America earlier than ever thought, sparking hot debate among archaeologists.
- New study suggests Neanderthals died out earlier, and did not co-exist with modern humans.
- Ice Age art hints at the birth of the modern mind.
- Mankind's cradle of civilisation found in Java?
- Bacteria turns toxic chemicals into solid gold.
- Are crop circles more than just modern pranks?
- Bonfire of the Sanities: the Quietus review of John Higgs' wonderful book KLF: Chaos, Magic, Music, Money.
- The Washington Times reviews Rupert Sheldrake's Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery.
- Finally! A new contender for the 'Headline of the Year' department: "Hatchet-wielding hitchhiking homeless man saves the day when a driver claiming to be Jesus tried to run a man over". Remarkably, the video interview IS EVEN BETTER!! (lots of NSFW language)
- This is what the sky would look like over New York, if you could see the stars.
- Image of the Day: What's this? Oh just the rings and polar hexagon of Saturn, in the one shot, taken by a spacecraft in orbit around the planet. Nothing too amazing really...
- Bonus Image of the Day: Ascend the Holy Mountain, and join the eternal ones in the sky.
Quote of the Day:
To course across more kindly waters now, my talent’s little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel
Dante
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1 May 2004
2 days 16 hours
There is a good blog in English on the above site which includes some very good photos. Could not find any English technical information though on the deep underground tests. Look forward to reading more about this site in the future.
http://rusdiah.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/jo....
Nostra
1 May 2004
2 days 16 hours
Here in the UK, Channel 4 made a documentary on the excavation of the car park and the discovery of the skeleton. From the start it was clear that this programme was not going to be in the vein of Channel 4’s show, Time Team, and so I had high hopes for it. But the reality was quite different.
It started off with the mechanical digger destroying the lower leg bones of what turned out to be Richard III’s skeleton. A short while later we see the archaeologist admitting to busting a hole in the same skeleton’s skull with a mattock whilst trying to remove surrounding earth.
As for showing the context of the skeleton’s grave, this was reduced to less than 30 seconds in a 90 minute show. The skeleton was not ‘cleaned’ very well before being removed and any other information gleaned from the dig was omitted. The background to the dig was sparse and failed to show how it progressed from an idea to the actual dig – and the impression gained from watching was that it was a little half-hearted on the dig team side. They seemed to be working with the attitude that they would find nothing, and wanted to say ‘I told you so’. It was only when the skeleton’s curved spine was found that their attitude began to change.
All I can say is, comeback Tony Robinson and the Time Team guys, at least you have a passion for the job and can convey this to the audience!
Nostra