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News Briefs 22-03-2016

Our intermittent reminder regarding those terrorist folk…

Thanks to Kat, @JohnReppion and @DoctorAtlantis.

Quote of the Day:

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Susan B. Anthony

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  1. Fossil snail
    I’m guessing that the guy he asked to identify them is one of those religions that believe man walked with dinosaurs. My god this is stupid. The guy clearly has internet so he could have googled them. As a fossil hunter and collector, I know the snails are not from 4,500 years ago. There is nothing I hate more than misinformation about finds. Since he was laying dirt it’s likely the fossils came in from the trucked in dirt from somewhere else. I had river rocks in my yard in my old house were I would find fossil coral. Also I have a turritella fossil. It dates back to the Eocene, 53 million years ago and was found by a friend, a real fossil expert, in Wyoming. I really hope someone gives this guy the right info, but living in Texas probably not.

  2. Easter
    This site needs to tone it down with the religious ads.

    You can’t really define any holiday as being based off one thing. Christianity based itself off of many stories and legends from many different cultures (it just denies it). The hare is a symbol of fertility in every culture. It doesn’t take a priest to see they breed like rabbits.

  3. “Anonymous” now looks like a
    “Anonymous” now looks like a ripe excuse for any sort of impostor claiming to be “for the good.” You can see what is next – “Anonymous” claiming to have unearthed some secret that is actually a “plant” being used for some geopolitical purpose. “Anonymous” going after Trump for instance could just as easily be some kind of Neocon front group of hackers donning the mask of do-gooders. Any group of hackers can call themselves “Anonymous” – no license required.

    http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/isis-twitter-accounts-traced-saudi-arabia-british-government/ri13463#

  4. “Mysterious new dwarf human species”, isn’t
    I was truly surprised to learn this article was about homo naledi. What the hell?! Talk about yesterday’s news. I’ve read this Daily Mirror article over, and I still can’t figure out why it was run. (Well, the tabloid nature of the source itself could explain it.) There’s nothing new here – this discovery and all the information in the article, as far as I can see, have been available since 2013. A simple shallow Google search shows you guys have had at least 7 separate News Brief entries on homo naledi since September, 2015.

    What gives? It’s just that I got all excited by the teaser, and then…meh.

  5. Easter not linked to a Pagan festival?
    I have often wondered why ‘Easter’ moves around when all other Christian ‘events’ are fixed within the yearly calendar. I understood it to be something to do with the phases of the Moon: more Pagan than Christian, as far as I’m concerned.

    1. Easter is (apparently) the
      Easter is (apparently) the most important Christian festival and holiday. In principle, Easter falls on the Sunday following the full moon that follows the northern spring equinox. There is, and has been, numerous ways (and dates) to calculate the exact date, and the overarching name for this calculation is “computus”. I believe nowadays the vernal equinox and the full moon are not determined by astronomical observation. The vernal equinox is fixed to fall on 21 March.

      1. sorry, no, the vernal equinox
        sorry, no, the vernal equinox is defined by the position of the Earth’s axis relative to the Sun, not fixed to our calendar. In fact, the equinox happened on March 20th this year in the UTC zone, and the evening of the 19th in Pacific time.

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