It’s Wednesday already?
- Explore the mystery and majesty of Turkey’s Cappadocia.
- Loren Coleman ponders the Argentinian gnome video.
- Debate over Flores Island Hobbit intensifies after Palau Island discovery.
- Anthropologist argues size and shape of craniums did not give humans advantages over Neanderthals. Same for Randi.
- The official poster for the new Indiana Jones movie has a very interesting skull.
- 6000-year-old Neolithic carvings were found by a Scottish plumber taking a stroll.
- An amateur archaeologist found an unprecedented collection of Stone Age hand axes among material collected at the bottom of the North Sea.
- 4000-year-old skeleton buried with a Bronze Age beer mug. That’s how most men wish to be buried, with essential items they’ll need in the Afterlife.
- America’s Stonehenge in Florida is still surrounded by condos and controversy.
- 2200-year-old jar burial containing a Parthian girl discovered in Iran, with pic.
- Temple ruins found at the Sacsayhuaman archaeological park near Cuzco, Peru.
- The ESA’s Venus and Mars orbiters have found the two planets have surprisingly similar atmospheres. Uranus however…
- In the wake of meteorite strikes, new life blossoms. Like the Phoenix.
- Cancer-causing chemicals found in products claiming to be ‘natural’.
- Satellite image of pollution from East Asia to North America isn’t a pretty picture.
- How prescient was HG Wells when he wrote about a system of world governance and scientific control? The Open Conspiracy (Amazon US or UK).
- News from China of Tibet protests is blanketed by a media blackout.
- Officials warn perennial Arctic ice is diminishing rapidly despite freezing winter.
- Does this Antarctic iceberg look like a giant humbug?
- There’s humour in the darkest places: an interview with author Terry Pratchett.
- The Nine Billion Names of God, a brilliant short story by Arthur C. Clarke.
Quote of the Day:
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. Clarke
