It’s a bit jumbled up, but I’m sure you’ll manage. Yo, Bill, there’s news about mesquite. I’m hoping today’s quote is a first for TDG.
- The thirst for knowledge is physically addictive. We TDGers have suspected as much, but we still want more.
- Archaeologists exploring one of Rome’s oldest catacombs have discovered more than 1,000 skeletons dressed in elegant togas.
- Long-lost Byzantine port uncovered in Istanbul, with what may be a church, a gate to the city, and 8 sunken ships wiped out by a giant storm more than 1,000 years ago.
- Anglian sword found at Bamburgh Castle has been declared the only one of its kind in the world.
- Atlantis and Tartessus: Norway Scientific Institutions recognize Spanish paleographical hypothesis.
- Arctic, Antarctic, Mars.
- Ancient shell beads may be oldest jewelry and first sign of modern culture. More.
- Radar peers into one of North America’s great pyramids, and into the Muscogee Nation’s past.
- Amongst deliberate destruction, blind ignorance and so-called progress, Arizona is quickly losing its prehistoric heritage.
- Prehistoric humans damaged coastal ecology.
- Huge underwater volcano discovered off Sicily.
- Etruscan tomb near Rome yields oldest paintings in Western civilisation.
- Oldest known spiderweb found in ancient amber.
- Amber preserves silk and prey from 136 million years ago.
- Dancing with the moon goddess in Callanish.
- Crowd of 19,000 at Stonehenge described as 5 percent pagan and 95 percent partygoer.
- Stonehenge-like tomb also marks solstice.
- Diving expedition continues search for underwater relics in China’s Fuxian Lake.
- From campfire to gas tank, Mesquite energy may be harvested for ethanol.
- Scientific world unites over origins of life and issues damning statement against creationism.
- The average worker spends two hours a day answering phonecalls, emails, and pointless questions.
- Study of social isolation paints sobering picture of a fragmented America, where intimate social ties are shrinking or nonexistent.
- Suburban ‘serenity’ blamed for making Americans the fattest, sickest people in the developed world.
- Charged paper moves on its own.
- Foraging monkeys make use of meteorology.
- Gut bacteria determine fat or thin. But, other than researchers force-feeding it to sterile mice, what determines gut bacteria?
- Viagra improves high-altitude exercise performance 45% – for some. Tour de France to become a revealing three-legged race?
- Research shows cherry juice decreases exercise-induced muscle pain and damage.
- ‘Fountain of youth’ drug proven to slow, even reverse, aging. But there’s new molecular proof that some aspects of aging are out of our control.
- Child abuse linked to development of schizophrenia.
- Sexual success and the schizoid factor.
- Contrails and the dark side of air travel.
- Physicists discover effervescent space.
- Why are uniforms uniform? Because color helps humans track more than 3 objects.
- Ozzie asks: Where have all the UFOs gone? Have we offended them?
- 50-year fear: Long incubation period means the number of people infected with vCJD could be far higher than previously thought.
- Spaceship dreams get real.
- Ufology’s generation now: Nick Pope.
- Girl-haunting ghost strikes terror in school.
- Walking ghost caught on video. Looks more like a waddling ghost to me.
- Experts weigh UFO facts and fiction.
- Making factories and computers with DNA.
- Magnetism nudges matter into black holes.
- Jon Stewart, Enemy of Democracy?
Quote of the Day:
You have kept me away from water for a week. Give me water.
Nepal’s girl-haunting ghost
