Shuffle up and deal. Are you in, human? I warned a sceptical poker-playing friend about this months ago, but some time today Wired Magazine will publish a story about online poker’s autoplaying robots. I can hardly wait to find out if they have an ace up their, err, sleeve.
- “I am already famous and powerful,”and, “I don’t want to talk about myself”: More than you ever wanted to know about the world’s most-famous Egyptian.
- By the end of the year, Bulgarian archaeologists expect to find 100,000 artefacts from unknown Bronze Age civilization.
- Inca ruins uncovered near frosty peaks.
- 10,000 year old Stone Age site discovered in the heart of Surrey.
- Viking Religion.
- Chinese fossils bare 580 million year old bilaterally symmetric organism.
- Dental DNA reveals our ancient roots.
- What was the relationship between Neanderthals and early humans?
- Climate Model Links Warmer Temperatures to Permian Extinction.
- Evolution of warfare theory says spears spawned ancient group violence.
- X-Rays reveal lost stone writings.
- Leapin’ Similarities: the convergent evolution of killer ants and frogs in Madagascar and Panama.
- Physicists describe a new mechanism for metallic magnetism.
- Monster meteor leaves dusty clues.
- Earth’s core rotates faster than crust.
- Supernova 1987A Decoded: proof that supernovae are catastrophic electrical discharges focused on a star. If you make it to the end of this article, you’ll find out how megaliths such as Stonehenge are related.
- Thunderbolts’ Aug. 24 update: Seeing Circuits, part two.
- Scientists express worry about the struggle over science in the US.
- Are Europe’s floods due to climate change?
- ‘Peak oil’ enters mainstream debate.
- Scientists discover flea fossil.
- What’s so special about the numbers one, two, six, 1,729 and 6.6742?
- Change blindness: Why we fail to see obvious changes in our environment.
- New drug reverses the effects of sleep deprivation in monkeys. Where’s the queue to get in the human trials?
- Polio outbreak in Indonesia is spreading and could pose a global health threat.
- Second-hand smoke may hook children on nicotine.
- When coping with negative life events, self-esteem not as important as self-compassion.
- Neuroscientists find link between daydreaming and Alzheimer’s.
- Hair follicle cloning could soon spell the end of receding hairlines and shiny, bald crowns.
- People dying from hunger should not have to wait for the TV camera crews to arrive.
- New £15,000 prize for short stories suggests Britain is finally getting over its obsession with the novel. But will it motivate Rico?
- Nicholas Roerich and the Chintamani Stone. (pdf)
- The Gnostic Science of Alchemy: Parts one and two.
- The High History of the Holy Grail.
- One man’s quest to find Atlantis.
- Last week’s photos of UFOs near Standing Rock, NM, a Navajo community near Gallup, may be the clearest in decades. Only one photo, but it’s a good one.
- Wikipedians plotting new world order – how to use their vast reservoir of knowledge to educate the world.
- John Skelton: the medieval godfather of rap.
- Spate of big cat sightings prompts Dorset wildlife officer to issue warning.
- Bear arrested for begging.
- Superman spotted in Serbia.
- Don’t teach your guard dog to bite – teach him to kick-box.
- Grumpy Brits are among the biggest moaners in the world.
Quote of the Day:
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln
