Ignorance is not bliss — and never has been.
- Stonehenge in the Caucasus: Previously unknown Bronze Age civilization discovered with the help of a 40-year-old aerial photo. More.
- How Middle Eastern milk drinkers conquered Europe during the Neolithic period.
- Woolly mammoth bones (not fossils) found in Snowmass Village, CO.
- York’s ‘Headless Romans’ had exotic origins.
- Moonlighting as a Conjurer of Chemicals: The scope and details of Sir Isaac Newton’s interest in alchemy are only now becoming clear.
- Socrates – a man for our times. Bettany Hughes’ The Hemlock Cup is available at Amazon US (pre-order) & UK (now).
- ‘Fractal’ mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot has died from cancer, at age 85. More, including video.
- From the Millau Viaduct to the Pyramids: Ten of the greatest feats of human engineering.
- Cosmic Log: Physicist explains your quantum superpowers.
- Making robotic prosthetics we can control with our minds.
- Why painting wind turbines purple could protect birds and bats from being killed by their blades.
- UN environment chief: ‘We are destroying life on Earth.’
- Rising seas and declining species.
- River clean-up brings UK’s otters back from brink of extinction.
- Most Americans don’t understand climate change.
- Military blood test may detect mild brain injuries.
- Project will map trillions of brain circuits in a healthy human brain. Wonder where they’ll find one?
- The top five times the US almost accidentally nuked itself.
- What’s that you say? The Chilean mine rescue was a Masonic plot? Hey, makes sense to me! Not really.
- And what about NASA using Photoshop on their images?!
- Researchers claim cancer is ‘purely man-made’ after finding almost no trace of the disease in Egyptian mummies.
- ‘Silver bullet’ could finally beat the common cold – and other viruses.
- John Scalzi interviews Graham Hancock about his novel Entangled (Amazon US & UK).
- Amazon Awakening: Deep in the Ecuador jungle, a local tribe works to protect its traditions, and a visitor finds answers through visions and revelations.
Big thanks to Greg!
Quote of the Day:
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.
Mark Twain
