News Briefs 02-05-2012

Kat should be online again soon, barring another Kat-ocalypse.

• Feathered headdress of Aztec ruler Montezuma could return to Mexico.
• Lima's urban growth putting pre-Inca archaeological sites at risk.
• Finding healing through an ancient Amazonian brew.
• Reimagining ancient Korean music for modern times.
• Archaeoacoustics: listening to Stonehenge & other rock music.
• Traditional Evenk village built for tourists in Siberia's remote Amur region.
• Influential Neighbours: Silk Road nomads of Kazakhstan.
• The lost cities of Khotan, buried beneath the sands of time.
• 5300 years ago, Ötzi the Iceman survived an arrow in the knee back.
• Grolar bears are increasing in the Arctic. Sans meteoric iron armour, alas.
• Start shaving, Red Pill Junkie! Biggest full moon of the year this weekend.
• Once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Venus transit the sun this June.
• Dunes made of volcanic glass may be a hotspot for life on Mars.
• Billions of habitable planets in the Milky Way boosts chances of alien life.
• Is it xeno-nucleic acid alien life, Jim, instead of DNA or RNA?
• Intimate photo portraits reveal human stories of alien abductees.
• The bizarre world of alien abductee researcher Dr David Jacobs.
• Was alien abductee Travis Walton influenced by Weird Wonder Tales?
• Aussie kazillionaire plans to build a (Made In China) Titanic II.
• Trekkies argue a full-scale replica of the USS Enterprise is better value.

Much thanks to unfolding.

Quote of the Day:

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Robert Anton Wilson