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News Briefs 30-07-2004

By Billon

There’s lots of news to finish up the week.

  • Neanderthals grew fast and died young.
  • CT and laser-scanning techniques have combined to recreate the life and death of a priest buried in Thebes 2,800 years ago.
  • The Angono Petroglyphs probably tell an ancient story with human figures accompanied by frogs, lizards, rectangles, and triangles.
  • An ancient brewery is discovered on a mountaintop in Peru. Wari lite.
  • The UK government has launched a consultation document to consider the repatriation of human remains held in Britain to aboriginal groups.
  • Afghanistan’s Buddha’s may rise again.
  • Was King Arthur really King McArthur?
  • The fundamental teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about some events in the Book of Mormon are challenged by DNA evidence. Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA and the Mormon Church is available from Amazon US and UK (advanced order).
  • A Roman Catholic bishop is doing his best to keep hate alive in Croatia.
  • The ancient Olympians were not exactly heroes.
  • The Catholic Church has officially declared the oil-seeping and bleeding artifacts at the Inala Vietnamese Catholic Centre as fakes. So did our TDG survey.
  • Believing in Hell has its benefits.
  • British Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick, who along with American James Watson discovered the double helix structure of DNA, has died at the age of 88.
  • That animated parody of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry set to the tune of “This Land Is Your Land” on TDG last week has everyone laughing except the owners of Woody Guthrie’s copyrights.
  • A diving-mule act splashes controversy. It’s not the same without the monkeys.
  • Cremation is changing the face of funerals.
  • An anti-HIV protein evolved millions of years before the emergence of AIDS.
  • The DNA of rare and endangered species is to be preserved for future generations. Good idea.
  • Shrimp shells help save soldiers’ lives.
  • Weird worms are found on whale bones.
  • A brain tweak makes flies lecherous. Our brains may have a similar tweak.
  • Czech labor inspectors convinced a retail chain to drop a plan that would have required women cashiers to wear red headbands when menstruating. No, we don’t make this stuff up.
  • Are Americans evenly divided on the issues? The Fifty – Fifty Split in American politics is phony.
  • Salam Majeed looks forward to democratic Iraq. I’ll bet he’s not alone.
  • If we could find solutions to the dozen or so factors that cause the body to age, decay and die, humans could live as long as 200-years.
  • Can vines grow rocks?
  • The shocking ‘suicides’ of four young recruits begs the question – What really happened at Deepcut barracks?
  • Video provided by the Mexican government could be key to credibility in a UFO-enthusiast’s career.
  • Is this circle of mushrooms the work of fairies or fungi?
  • The new expedition has embarked to solve the mystery behind the popular phenomenon known as Tungus (Tunguska) meteorite.
  • Linda Moulton Howe reports on the Crop Circles in Tilden, Wisconsin oats, and 90-Degree Angles in Litchfield, Minnesota barley with lots of pics. Doug and Dave, no doubt. ;o)
  • Some say Bigfoot is alive and well. Does a mysterious beast really roam the mountains of southern Oklahoma?
  • Has an elusive Chupacabra been killed on a ranch near San Antonio, Texas? Here’s the story and the pics.
  • The Maryland mystery animal has been seen worldwide.
  • A rubber band is invoked to explain dark energy.
  • A lucky find in the desert of Oman has allowed scientists to reconstruct the most detailed ever history of a lunar meteorite.
  • A pair of 35-million-year-old craters on Earth thought to have been carved by comets now appears to be the result of a broken asteroid that generated a slowly delivered shower of debris over millions of years.
  • NASA wants some Martian spies.
  • Supersonic plasma jets that dart across the low atmosphere of the Sun are explained.

Quote of the Day:




Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.



Benjamin Franklin

Bill

23 Comments

  1. in retrospect
    i must dis-agree with Bills quip towards the story in which he titled “An ancient brewery is discovered on a mountaintop in Peru. Wari lite”/
    Point being that i highly doubt that anyone in the ancient world would have considered leaning towards a “lite diet” alternative, a progressive choice. Most likely, the reverse would be more the appropriate assumption.

    –dd “Lactomangulation, n.:Manhandling the “open here” spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the “illegal” side.“

      1. heheh
        Hi Bill. Thanks for the update! I can go with Spicy 🙂

        –dd “A large number of installed systems work by fiat. That is,they work by being declared to work.“

        1. love the quote
          It’s like my computer.
          “It’s looks perfectly normal to me.” declares my son.”Those purple zigzag flashes on the screen are only there to stop people from falling asleep at the keyboard”.

          shadows

      2. Chupa-what?
        Hi Bill,

        I do indeed live in S.A. – problem is I have only lived here a couple of years and dont know the local fauna (Im Scottish). My wife wont even let me go into woodland on my own because I dont recognise the rattle of a rattler!

        As for the anti-religious thing someone is complaining about…in my mind its not anti religious unless you diss ALL religions, not just christianity :-). Ever wondered about the chistian/islam/judaism thing? I have: why are they all fighting, not over which God they pray to but how best to go about praying to the same God? Depressing, I tell you. Give me Pagans every time.

        And, for the record, Im not a Liberal…that means something very different in the UK where I come from. You only have Liberals like you seem to mean them in the US, not elsewhere. I describe myself, when I need to, as an anarchist with sympathies for the socialism I was brought up with. (Scotland is a socialist country, folks…votes overwhelmingly for the Labour Party, which is a socailist party, at every UK election)

        To sit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men

        2. Liberals in Australia
          Cernig,

          I feel your pain.

          Here in Australia, the Liberal Party is conservative. Don’t ask me why, it’s an oxymoron that defies logic. Maybe it’s why I despise political parties so much, I’m too much of a literalist. I mean, Labour, come on, they haven’t done a hard day’s blue-collar work in their collective lives …

          Me — right of left, but definitely left of right. I like to be all things inbetween, depending on the issue or situation. Makes it hard come election time though, I don’t want to vote for any of them!

          Eddie McGuire for President of Australia, I say (wink wink, Greg).

          Sliante!

          Rick

          “Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.” – Philip Pullman

  4. fairies or fungi?
    Although I am not an expert on fairy rings, the offered scientific explanation seems to leave a little bit to be desired. If the mushrooms eat dead grass and spread 10 cm at a time, one would expect a SOLID circular pattern of mushrooms rather than a narrow RING. What force of nature drives the specific curvature of the ring pattern? Perhaps it has to do with the geomagnetic field, sunlight polarization or some other type of field that we don’t yet understand.(e.g., crop circles? )

    1. Where is it going to
      That depends on who your listening to.
      If your listening to the politicians, we’re going to hell.
      If you listen to the religious zealots, we’re going to hell.
      take your pick. then go to hell. heheh

      –dd “A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.“

    4. Anyi-religion?
      To which article do you refer when you cite anti-religion:

      • The article that reported hate being kept alive in Croatia by a Roman Catholic bishop?
      • The article stating that the Roman Catholic Church made an honest evaluation of the ‘weeping’ statue and declared it a hoax?
      • The article that reported that the teachings in Book of Mormon are being challenged by one of their own members?
      • The article giving evidence that nations are richer, less corrupt, and more prosperous if the populous has a belief in Hell?
      • Or the article stating that Afghanistan’s Buddha’s may rise again?

      Bill

        1. News update
          Hi X_O,

          You can send me an email for the news update at billb (and then)@dailygrail.com (gotta beat the spambots).

          Thanks for the update. Good article. I love to see the Big Bang and relativity unravel. Is that anti-religious? ;o)

          Bill

      2. a little addendum
        In reference to the Catholic Church in Inala where the statues were seen to bleed oil,the media has announced that someone of authority within the church was seen to pour oil on rosary beads which were then proferred for sale.
        The money raised from the faithful, the Vietnamese community was said to be above $50,000.
        Plans were being made to enlarge the church.

        All the above from the last few days news.

        shadows

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