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- Lost tapes reveal Apollo astronauts heard unexplained ‘music’ on far side of the Moon. Pink Floyd, surely…?
- Newly-discovered 93-mile-long ancient wall in Jordan puzzles archaeologists.
- World famous ancient Siberian nude ‘Venus’ figurines turn out to be statuettes of ordinary men and women wearing clothes.
- From washing machines to computers: how the ancients invented the modern world.
- A look at Latin America’s mysterious crystal skulls.
- Stonehenge quarry is being plundered for chips of bluestone which are being sold on eBay.
- Evidence of violent storms that destroyed ‘Britain’s Atlantis’ has been uncovered.
- Did the Maya create the first comics?
- A treasure trove of iron meteorites may be hiding beneath Antarctica’s ice.
- What is the strange black substance falling from the sky in Harrison, Michigan?
- Italy’s fascinating Festival of the Snake-Catchers.
- The surprisingly sticky tale of the bird that guides African tribes to honey.
- No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts the universe had no beginning.
- Blade Runner sequel announced for January 2018, starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling.
- Vale Umberto Eco, who asked the hard questions about the myths we can’t help believing in.
- Atheism is older than Christianity and Islam, but Romans erased it from history, new study finds.
- Image of the Day: Deer flees from flying squirrel.
Quote of the Day:
Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d’état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes. The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn’t called out. Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.
Umberto Eco