Happy Memorial Day to everyone in the US. Unfortunately, this will be my last post as a regular TDG news poster, as the demands of other aspects of life are causing me to want to give up this commitment. Still, I’ll continue to lurk around this great site and may even fill in as a backup to the other guys from time to time. Thanks to everyone who has offered their support along the way. Certainly is an interesting variety of news out there this weekend…
- Mainstream rubbish? Statistical flaws revealed in top journals’ papers.
- Mysterious inscription on the Great Pyramid? An attempt at decoding it.
- Robert Bauval has been very prolific recently in updating his Giza News bulletin board, including a post about possible new explorations behind the Sphinx.
- Archaeologists startled to discover Neolithic ritual site.
- Bird’s-eye view of the Amazon, airborne archaeologist challenges the myth of a pristine wilderness.
- An archeological team working in Bashir Mount in the desert area of Palmyra (Tadmor) has unearthed 46 archeological sites that date back to 80,000 years BC.
- Microbes consuming Mayan ruins.
- Petra remains a lost city for many. Jordan’s ancient ruins little visited by tourists, making them even more attractive.
- A new discovery has created a great stir in Chinese archaeological circles, as a cemetery dig yields clues 3000 years ago with what may be a large group of tombs of China’s Western Zhou Dynasty.
- India pledges to restore Angkor temple.
- Macbeth’s castle unearthed in Inverness garden?
- Archaeologists in Hereford have uncovered evidence of a 15th Century workshop.
- Is London really based on Troy?
- A replica of a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age boat – built from clues left on ancient inscriptions and artwork – set sail from the island of Crete Saturday to be showcased at the Athens Olympics.
- Hollywood plans stir Celtic ghosts, as no fewer than four scripts on Boudicca are in the works.
- Planets line up in ecliptic over Giza (w/ pic).
- Raw ingredients for life detected in planetary construction zones.
- Nasa’s Spitzer telescope has found evidence around a distant star for a planet that may be less than one million years old.
- The Universe is at least 156 billion light-years wide.
- Missing black holes found.
- Milky Way churning out new stars at a furious pace.
- Atomic wings: a new mini-reactor revives the dream of a nuclear-powered aircraft.
- Proposed nuclear-powered Jupiter mission defined.
- Panel to report on Moon-Mars space plan.
- Mars rover Opportunity endures ‘deep sleep’ with no harm.
- Gravity Probe B mission status report.
- A powerful earthquake that shook Alaska in 2002 affected geysers and hot springs at Yellowstone National Park nearly 2,000 miles away in Wyoming.
- Earthquakes beget earthquakes near and far.
- ‘Silent slips’ complicate earthquake patterns.
- Dinosaur skull provides geological clues, scientists say dinosaur skull is evidence Africa broke off later than thought.
- Mysterious majesty of Mount Fuji solved.
- Forget the CNN article from Friday’s TDG news, the current story is, one again, that Earth’s brightness is dimming. We like to report conflicting things around here.
- Tens of thousands hit by floods in Caribbean as more rains fall.
- Blackout gave cities a breath of fresh air.
- Arctic getting warmer faster.
- The science, and fiction, of Day After Tomorrow. The deliciously baddest movies. The hijacking of “Tomorrow”. Day After Tomorrow a wreck, special effects are amazing, but the rest …
- Why I believe in the paranormal by Colin Wilson. ‘Now they will realise that I am a genius’, claims Colin Wilson speaking of his auto-biography. Dreaming to Some Purpose: The Autobiography of Colin Wilson is available at Amazon US/UK.
- Ghostbusters enter spooked docks. Ghostbusters say ‘docks haunted’.
- Elusive whispers draw searchers into an old prison’s dark, haunting halls.
- Call to halt ghost tours over potential psychological harm.
- Those lion sightings could have some teeth.
- Four hundred years ago, rumors circulated of man-eating horses.
- Book deal for dragon hoax author.
- The latest UFO reports from Filer’s Files and UFO Roundup.
- UFOs Or simply oil well flames in Mexico sighting?
- A national conference on UFOs in Campbelltown, Australia, next weekend.
- Was ‘UFO’ just a happy couple?
- The Lord – or one of His helpers – has been working in mysterious ways in a Brisbane church during the past week.
- Exposed: conman’s role in prayer-power IVF ‘miracle’. One of the authors of a university report on infertility has admitted a ulti-million-dollar fraud.
- Vital signs found in boy thought dead.
- Sky-high prices spark renewable energy.
- Lord of the molecular rings created.
- Gassy fruit forces airline alert. At least it wasn’t gassy passengers.
- Frogs in focus, already strange array of known amphibians keeps growing.
- A tiny, orange-coloured, rodent-like mammal was discovered recently at a burnt forest clearing on Mount Banahaw, south of Manila.
- White croc tale makes jaws drop.
- Giant mushroom invades Congo (third story on page).
- Dolphin DNA blows myth of home-loving dads.
- Researchers reveal that microbes have stolen some of our genes.
- Hippo sweat: super sunscreen.
- Flying fish jumps into man’s eye.
- Researchers discover that a protein in grape skins can kill cancer cells.
- Are lie detector tests a big fib?
- Cigarettes are linked to more ills in the US.
- Could mice hold the secret to longer life?
- Most of us are poor judges of our own abilities.
Quote of the Day:
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Lynd (1879-1949) Anglo-Irish essayist, journalist
