Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it!
- Archaeologists discover huge lost civilization in Guatemala.
- Finding the first Americans: Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
- Attila the Hun attacked Rome to save his people from starvation, new study suggests.
- ‘Troubles melt away’: record crowd celebrates winter solstice at Stonehenge.
- Helicopters evacuate travelers stranded at Machu Picchu.
- A movie based on the Betty and Barney Hill UFO ‘abduction’ case is coming to Netflix next year, via the Obama’s production company.
- The perception of time is not universal – even among humans.
- Electrical stimulation to the brain could stop the fear response in people with phobias.
- Transparent glass-frogs ‘vanish’ at night by hiding red blood cells in their liver.
- Behind Argentina’s World Cup magic, an army of witches.
- The myth of the psychedelic Santa.
- The first Romantics: How a close group of brilliant friends, in a tiny German university town, laid the foundations of modern consciousness.
- Image(s) of the Day: Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge in England, and at Karnak temple in Egypt.
Quote of the Day:
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
