Well, they don’t say its the land Down Under for no reason…

• Archaeologists and astronomers solve the solar mystery of Chile’s Stonehenge.
• Why the ‘Stonehenge’ at Newgrange is the most exciting discovery in Ireland in 100 years.
• Ancient fairytales and myths are back in fashion – for telling it like it is.
• Mary Todd Lincoln died 136 years ago. Did the First Lady’s supernatural interests convince Abraham Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation?
• Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult philosophy.
• Related: Dark star rising – fascism and the occult meet in Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin.
• “There is no advantage to thinking” – reviewing Leon Festinger’s landmark book on belief systems, When Prophecy Fails.
• The secret history of Marxist alien hunters.
• NASA awards contract to study flying drones on Venus.
• Research suggests that humans could one day regrow limbs.
• The loudest sound ever heard.
• Researchers discover a quadrillion tons of diamonds in Earth’s deep crust.
• Unearthed stone tools and spearpoints in Texas add to the debate over who the first Americans were.
• Image of the Day: the spiders from Mars.
• Video of the Day: the most cinematic nuclear bomb footage you’ll ever see.

Quote of the Day:

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

George Orwell