Before we begin, a quick heads-up to the esoteric book collectors our there. And now, the news:
- Co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine found ground-breaking malaria treatment by scouring ancient Chinese medical texts.
- Island boulders reveal an ancient mega-tsunami that unleashed waves 170 metres high.
- Michigan farmer unearths woolly mammoth skeleton.
- Research reveals that prehistoric Britons mummified their dead like the ancient Egyptians.
- Islamic State blow up iconic, 2000-year-old Palmyra Arch of Triumph.
- The five scariest cults in modern history.
- Sneezing monkey and walking fish among new species discovered in Himalayas. Researchers to continue searching for the crouching tiger and hidden dragon.
- Crows fear death.
- Scientists to nudge asteroid off course as practice for protecting the Earth
- Boyhood encounter with UFO inspired art that soared around the world.
- In some cultures people with schizophrenia actually like the voices they hear.
- Suffrajitsu: How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts.
- Ambient radio waves turned into electricity for charging low power devices.
- Image(s) of the Day: Extraordinary stereographs from the 1800s.
Thanks @djp1974 and @mandate33.
Quote of the Day:
I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.
Graham Hancock