First, they ignore you.
- Scientists’ analysis disputes FBI closing of anthrax case.
- Huge new dinosaur trackway found in US.
- Video: Dinosaur footprints in Arkansas may be from cousin of T.Rex.
- Toxic tar shrank the heads of prehistoric Californians.
- The remains of a Neolithic stone circle that could rival the most impressive in Britain may have been found off the coast of Orkney.
- Someone gave this prehistoric dog a mammoth bone.
- Pavlopetri: A window on to Bronze Age suburban life.
- Incas built empire with bloodless takeovers.
- Egypt accused of abandoning its antiquities sector and leaving it in a desperate state, despite what archaeology has done for the country over the years. Another new secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has just been appointed.
- Sun’s varying ultraviolet emissions linked to warmer winters in some places and colder winters in others.
- Mapping out the future of mining on the moon.
- Place your bets! Yale study proves winning streaks are not ‘all in the mind’.
- At clairvoyant’s funeral, sharing tales of treasure found and crimes solved.
- US Homeland Security uses Minority Report-style system that uses algorithms to predict behaviour.
- Babies show sense of fairness, altruism as early as 15 months.
- Human brain ‘smells’ what it expects rather than what the nose sniffs.
- The unique way someone walks can betray who they are with almost as much accuracy as fingerprints.
- Air pollution from vehicles impairs brain function.
- Raw sewage found to be teeming with unknown viruses.
- Tepco ejects hydrogen from Fukushima nuclear plant to prevent explosion.
- Robert Zemeckis to adapt Charles Fort comic book to screen.
- A fold in the brain is linked to keeping reality and imagination separate.
- ‘Faster-than-light neutrinos’ spark wild scientific leaps. Good summary page by a TDG reader here.
- Man rips out his own eyeballs during Sunday Mass. I think we’ve all
been tempted to do that during Sunday Mass… - Rise of the machines: why we keep coming back to H.G. Wells’ vision of a Dystopian future.
- History and the war on drugs.
- Steve Jobs had LSD. We have the iPhone.
- Retirement Heist: How companies plunder and profit from the nest eggs of US workers. (Amazon US & UK)
- OccupyWallStreet protest spurs online dialogue about inequality.
- Panic of the Plutocrats.
- Image of the Day: What would Jesus do?
Thanks, Greg!
Quote of the Day:
Alan Grayson: Now let me tell you what they’re talking about. They’re complaining about the fact that Wall Street wrecked the economy three years ago and nobody’s held responsible for that. Not a single person has been indicted or convicted for destroying twenty percent of our national net worth accumulated over the course of two centuries. They’re upset about the fact that Wall Street have iron control over the economic policies of this country, and that one party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street and the other party caters to them as well. That’s the real truth of the matter, as you said before. And…
PJ O’Rourke: Get the man a bongo drum, they’ve found their spokesman!
Alan Grayson: If I…
PJ O’Rourke: Get your shoes off, get a bongo drum, forget where to go to the bathroom, and it’s yours.
Alan Grayson: If I am the spokesman for all the people who think we should not have 24 million people in this country who can’t find a full time job, that we should not have 50 million people who can’t see a doctor when they’re sick, that we shouldn’t have 47 million people of this country who need government help in order to feed themselves, and we shouldn’t have 15 million families who owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home, okay, I’ll be that spokesman.
Video: Alan Grayson schools P.J. O’Rourke on OccupyWallStreet.
