Time to lighten-up a bit on the political front. The US presidential election is in November; take all political news that you come across anywhere with a grain of salt. To insure that everyone is equally offended, TDG offers this perspective. (Click on the picture, it will take a few minutes to load; with sound.) ;o)
- Ah, an amusing little vintage with a hint of saber-toothed tiger musk. An archaeologist is attempting to trace the first wine to the Stone Age.
- Baby’s first word filled Stone Age Papa with pride.
- Excavations are set to begin at one of the most important archaeological sites in Scotland.
- Bronze Age ritual human sacrifice may have been rarer than believed.
- Fraudulent behavior by a dog trainer who has assisted in archaeological disputes calls into question the use of dogs in archaeology. Eagle, the dog, did not misbehave. Good dog; bad trainer.
- A 17,000-year old art relic has been found in central Russia.
- The legal battle over the ancient bones of Kennewick Man has been won by the scientists, but they now face a new wrangle over access to the remains.
- Ramses II, son of the Sun god, the greatest warrior king of ancient Egypt, has been defeated by the automobile.
- A Kyrgyz-Russian expedition has embarked on a hunt for an ancient city covered by a lake – a Kyrgyz Atlantis.
- Do you have dreams of taking a sunny paddle boat ride across the sky-blue waters of Lake Titicaca? Looks can be deceiving.
- Here’s a new twist. Napoleon Bonaparte died of too many enemas.
- Following an NDE, a young monkey at an Israeli zoo has started walking on its hind legs only, just like us. Somebody notify Commander George Taylor.
- The Dutch are getting taller, but they are being stalked by junk food.
- Michael Jackson wants a celebrity exception to the First Amendment. No, we don’t make this stuff up.
- Thousands of acres were set on fire in California when a red-tailed hawk was electrocuted by power lines and fell to the ground.
- Handedness develops in the womb.
- The key genetic differences among people are revealed.
- The ancient Germans weren’t so fair.
- Grey matter matters for intellect.
- A new audio system lets flowers sing.
- The blind really do hear better. That’s fair.
- Evidence is revealed for the creation of elusive matter.
- Stephen Hawking concedes a bet, backtracking on his long-held belief that black holes obliterate everything that falls into them.
- Cool fuel cells could revolutionize the Earth’s energy resources. Somebody shovel some money to these guys.
- Men with guns change the weather in China.
- War is hell. US army food… just add urine.
- What is happening to birds?
- The shady phenomenon of freak waves as tall as 10-story buildings has been seen from space.
- Drunken flight attendants fight a passenger. That’s correct – read it again.
- Scientists find that shorelines breathe. That’s scary.
- On a site beneath the waves off the coast of Florida, Atlantis is being built of concrete and human ashes. I don’t think this is what Edgar Cayce envisioned.
- While the Pacific Northwest has Bigfoot and Nevada is famous for UFOs, Illinois claims the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, the Farmer City Monster and perhaps yet another unconfirmed tall tale: Lake County cougars.
- Is the story of Troy and the Trojan Horse really a tale of scheming gods? Zecharia Sitchin’ THE EARTH CHRONICLES EXPEDITIONS is available from Amazon US and UK.
- Is physicist Vittorio Formisano’s Mars data being suppressed by the ESA?
- Spirit and Opportunity get extended roving privileges on Mars. Guess what they don’t get.
- If aliens exist ‘we’ll know in 20 years’.
- A new Martian meteorite has been found in Antarctica.
- NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a view of an eclectic mix of galaxies.
- There are puzzling differences in Jupiter and Saturn.
- UK Science Minister Lord Sainsbury wants NASA and ESA to join forces to achieve future space goals.
- High-resolution images of Apollo 11’s Moon landing on 21 July 1969 have been removed from a double freezer, thawed, digitally scanned, and re-produced.
Quote of the Day:
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napolean Bonaparte
