- Stuff keeps getting older: 12-metre-long monolith found in the sea off Sicily is manmade, and at least 9000 years old.
- British Library appeals for help in cracking cryptic code on a medieval sword.
- Is this a reefer I see before me? Pipes with cannabis residue found in Shakespeare’s garden.
- Mormon Church reveals the stone that ‘translated’ the Book of Mormon.
- Recreated alchemical recipes show the genius of ancient scientists.
- Sensory deprivation goes from CIA torture manuals to a yoga studio near you.
- Vatican astronomer believes in aliens.
- Parapsychologist Caroline Watt keen to dispel ghostbusting mythology.
- Why do we believe we have free will?
- MIT claims to have found a ‘language universal‘ that ties all languages together.
- What lies beneath? Tantalising clue may lead to the location of Nefertiti’s tomb.
- This wasp controls the minds of spiders to make them build it cozy webs.
- Please, don’t have sex with robots.
- Scotland to ban GM crop growing.
- The man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb.
Thanks @MarkStaufer.
Quote of the Day:
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
