Let’s all go and explore the Monday news briefs together…
- Boulders at Stonehenge were taken to the monument’s site by humans, rather than dragged there by glaciers, new scientific research has confirmed.
- In Roswell, it’s not Epstein – it’s the UFO files Trump promised. (Archived page link)
- Archaeologists find trilobite fossil that had likely been made into an amulet by ancient Romans.
- Related: The ancient Egyptians collected fossils.
- Earth’s unusual rapid spin since 2020 could prompt first-ever ‘negative leap second‘.
- Copies of the infamous Cottingley Fairies photographs are set for auction after a century in family’s possession.
- This cat-borne parasite could be causing you to make bad decisions by hijacking your brain chemistry.
- The ancient site that has become a political flashpoint in India.
- Mary had schizophrenia — then suddenly she didn’t: Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? (Archived page link)
- Decapitation of a child 850,000 years ago provides new evidence of cannibalism among early humans.
- Jaw-dropping video shows NASA’s plan to deliver a helicopter swarm to Mars without landing.
- Zahi Hawass hits back at Joe Rogan over ‘car-crash’ interview: “Didn’t do his homework” on pyramid alien conspiracies.
Quote of the Day
Irreverence is easy — what’s hard is wit.
Tom Lehrer
