Click here to support the Daily Grail for as little as $US1 per month on Patreon

News Briefs 20-10-2004

By Jameskeon

I wonder if Roast Guinea Pig is as tasty as Roast Beef?

  • Forest excuse is pure Roman spin.
  • Tombs offer clues to ancient mystery.
  • Super Guinea Pigs are the last supper in Peru.
  • Coral Castle: the key to creation?
  • Solar minimum is coming sooner than expected.
  • An apple a day keeps cancer away.
  • US Airforce pursuing antimatter weapons.
  • Dawkins has another go at phenotype and this time it is Race.
  • Randomness, risk and financial markets.
  • Is the US playing politics with Pot research.
  • Early solar system was a mess. So no change there then.
  • Ancient fungus revived in the lab. Foot powder at the ready.
  • Unseen comets may raise impact risk for Earth.
  • Toothache made lion eat humans.
  • Shaking up gravity.
  • Giant proximity effect supported by latest superconductor research.
  • If your brain has a buy button then what pushes it? Someone else’s sell button?
  • A new culprit in depression?
  • First skeleton of sleeping giant found.
  • Inventor rejoices as TVs go dark.
  • Artefacts may provide clues to ancient Texas coast dwellers.
  • Medieval houses of God or ancient fortresses? Both? Perhaps the God being worshipped was very unpopular.
  • Fisherman nets 2400 year old bronze statue.
  • Global climate change to kill Earth with ice and deserts.
  • Two spectacular discoveries make the case for birds evolving from dinosaurs even stronger.
  • Girl who wept stones admitted to hospital. Lucky for her they weren’t crocodiles.
  • Synaesthetic woman sees colours around faces and names.
  • Bacteria are genetically modified by lightning.
  • Ancient tree a legacy from prehistoric times.
  • Cave art reveals ancient Chinese science thrived.
  • TV emits distress signal.
  • Scientist is building a planet in his lab.
  • Mining the Moon.
  • The Cold Truth. If it is all true then one wonders if the theories are right.

Quote of the Day:

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

Jameske
Related

10 Comments

  1. Show me colours where there’s none to see….
    My housemate is synaesthetic. He’s learning to play the piano and he sees colours instead of notes. He also experiences this when listeing to any kind of music. He can also see auras.

    When I was a kid, I always saw a colour instead of the day of the week (Monday was always yellow, Tuesday blue, Wednesday red or burgundy, Thursday grey or silver, Friday the colour of the night sky). I don’t experience this anymore. I wonder why.

    It’s an amazing thing — my housemate says it’s a “gift”. And it is.

    My subject line is almost a lyric from a U2 song: She shows me colours where there’s none to see from The First Time

  3. Coral Castle
    Once again, a researcher finding patterns (where non exists) and determining them to be some kind of Holy Grail of physics, life, the universe etc. etc.

    However there was a link at the end of the item to another report on acoustics and patterns various sounds can generate. Much more interesting, backed up with ‘proper’ science, and well worth checking out.

    Nostra

  4. caledonian forest
    Its a classic response for a historian to insist that an ancient writer is lying when his descriptions do not match the historian’s theory.
    Another way to explain the “missing” caledonian forest, is to accept that perhaps “Scotland” in roman times was not on the British Islands. It could easily be located a few miles East on the continent. Perhaps inhabited by the “Scythians”=(scottish)?
    I do not believe it is controversial that northern Europe was heavily forested in Roman times. They also seem to have spoken Gaelic there at the time.
    The British Islands should not have been particularly important to the Romans, given their geography, so it seems odd that they spent so much time and resources securing it. Britian would really have only gained its modern importance after the middle ages when a wealthy house of Rome began using it as a base for launching treasure raids on the rest of Europe. This would probably also explain the mysterious lack of Roman artifacts in Modern Britain. They were there, but they probably didn’t call it Britain at the time.

    Of course, this is all just speculation, but so is all history before the advent of modern record keeping. Just trying to keep everybody’s minds open! 😉

    1. Lack of Roman artifacts in Britain…??
      Er, actually there’s been quite a lot of Roman artifacts dug up in Britain.

      Most of our old towns and cities were built on the sites of Roman settlements(ever heard of a little place called londinium?)

      People are digging up Roman artifacts all over the place, from simple one-off coins and pins to treasure hoards of gold coins and entire forts, temples and villages (pay a visit to Bath if you’re ever over that way).

      Most of our existing road infrastructure is built over the tops of what were the original Roman roads (and many of them, alas, have not been as well maintained as their 2000 year old counterparts). 🙁

      Secondly, how do you explain Scotland being “a few miles East” (presumably from its current location) “on the continent”?

      So – let me get this straight – you’re suggesting that the whole of Scotland, only 2000-5000 or so years ago, actually existed not north of England, but several hundred miles east, on the continental mainland?

      What cataclysmic geological event happened to alter the European continental landscape so drastically? Why is there no theories abounding and no evidence to back it up?

      Do you honestly believe that this is a more acceptable explanation, than to suggest that perhaps a few of the Roman legionnaires and contemporary writers “exaggerated the truth” to save their own reputations? Come on.

      1. Scotland is a name and not a place…
        Scotland is a name and not a place. It is entirely possible that the ancient writings that refer to “Scotland” were instead refering to the land of the Scyths, or some other Northern European group.
        In other words, I am suggesting that the Roman histories of Britian might actually be histories of northern Europe instead. If someone can produce a map of “Britian” made in Roman times, that shows conclusively the familiar shape of the British costline, then I will be satisfied with the current explanation.
        Until then, I would say its quite up in the air.
        As to my comments about the lack of Roman artifacts in Britian, I should probably have said relative lack. As far as I can see, there should be much more Roman remains than currently have been found given how extenisve the Roman occupation was said to have been.

    2. Roman Britain
      There are so many things wrong with the post above I don’t know where to start. In case anyone from other nations is wondering, I can personally attest to the huge number of Roman remains and artifacts in Britain, including two humungeous walls stretching from coast to coast. Studying Latin at school was what first stimulated my interest in ancient history and I spent several summers exploring those remains with my school. For more on the Romans in Britain, check out the excellent BBC webpages or the huge site maintained by roman-britain.org.

      Regards, C

      1. Romans
        One should be wary about calling the remains Roman because it is almost certain that British people played a big part in building them. As for the roads, well, perhaps the Romans simply improved roads already there.

        Jameske

  5. Roman roads in Britain
    I understand that many of the Roman roads in Britain have been found to have been built over the top of existing paved roads, although no-one seems to know who might have built these sub-subsurface highways. Interesting!

    Kathrinn

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Mobile menu - fractal