It's Wednesday already?

• Explore the mystery and majesty of Turkey's Cappadocia.
• Loren Coleman ponders the Argentinian gnome video.
• Debate over Flores Island Hobbit intensifies after Palau Island discovery.
• Anthropologist argues size and shape of craniums did not give humans advantages over Neanderthals. Same for Randi.
• The official poster for the new Indiana Jones movie has a very interesting skull.
• 6000-year-old Neolithic carvings were found by a Scottish plumber taking a stroll.
• An amateur archaeologist found an unprecedented collection of Stone Age hand axes among material collected at the bottom of the North Sea.
• 4000-year-old skeleton buried with a Bronze Age beer mug. That's how most men wish to be buried, with essential items they'll need in the Afterlife.
• America's Stonehenge in Florida is still surrounded by condos and controversy.
• 2200-year-old jar burial containing a Parthian girl discovered in Iran, with pic.
• Temple ruins found at the Sacsayhuaman archaeological park near Cuzco, Peru.
• The ESA's Venus and Mars orbiters have found the two planets have surprisingly similar atmospheres. Uranus however...
• In the wake of meteorite strikes, new life blossoms. Like the Phoenix.
• Cancer-causing chemicals found in products claiming to be 'natural'.
• Satellite image of pollution from East Asia to North America isn't a pretty picture.
• How prescient was HG Wells when he wrote about a system of world governance and scientific control? The Open Conspiracy (Amazon US or UK).
• News from China of Tibet protests is blanketed by a media blackout.
• Officials warn perennial Arctic ice is diminishing rapidly despite freezing winter.
• Does this Antarctic iceberg look like a giant humbug?
• There's humour in the darkest places: an interview with author Terry Pratchett.
• The Nine Billion Names of God, a brilliant short story by Arthur C. Clarke.

Quote of the Day:

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Arthur C. Clarke