- ‘Phantom time hypothesis’: Did a power-hungry pope fabricate centuries of history?
- A massive tsunami may have annihilated Britain’s Stone Age population 8,000 years ago.
- 2023 confirmed as the hottest year on record.
- The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis in 2024 that has parallels with reality.
- Neanderthals split from modern humans just 408,000 years ago, says new study.
- On the serious business of 19th-century fairy paintings.
- See also: John Reppion’s discussion of Richard Dadd’s The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke in his essay Magic and Madness.
- Mysterious moat discovered in Jerusalem may have been used to divide the biblical city.
- NASA has added another year’s delay to its Artemis plan for landing astronauts on the Moon.
- The missing conversation: to the detriment of the public, scientists and historians don’t engage with one another. They must begin a new dialogue.
- The strange story of the grave of Copernicus.
- Video of the Day: The snows of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Quote of the Day:
Strangely, some songs you really don’t want to write… It’s an odd feeling, like something else is guiding you, although forcing your hand is more like it.
David Bowie
