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Further excavations may reveal if the stones of the previously unrecorded cairn were raised to honour the dead or to display dominance over the area.An archaeological survey has identified a previously unrecorded Bronze Age monument in the Haaga district of the city of Turku on Finland's southwest coast. The site could possibly date back as much as 3,500 years.The cairn -- a pile of granite stones typical of Bronze Age burials -- is located at the highest point of a rocky hill area overlooking the Aura river.Stone burial cairns were typical for western Bronze Age culture which in Finland is...

Climate change deniers have been getting excited about a recent paper published online titled No Experimental Evidence For The Significant Anthropogenic Climate Change, which goes against the widely accepted scientific consensus on climate change based on many years of climate data. The paper, yet to be accepted for peer-review but published online on pre-print site arXiv, claims to "prove that the changes in the low cloud cover fraction practically control the global temperature" and the recent United Nations IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) failed to include this. The authors claim that human contribution to global warming, estimated to...

... “During the last hundred years the temperature increased about 0.1 degree celsius because of carbon dioxide,” researchers at the University of Turku noted in their report (.pdf). “The human contribution was about 0.01 degrees celsius.”Mp> You read that right … 0.01 percent. “Because the anthropogenic portion in the increased carbon dioxide is less than 10 percent, we have practically no anthropogenic climate change,” the researchers added. “If we pay attention to the fact that only a small part of the increased CO2 concentration is anthropogenic, we have to recognize that the anthropogenic climate change does not exist in practice.”...

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Study Shows Moms' Lives Shortened by Sons Men who thought giving their moms flowers for Mother's Day was enough to show their appreciation might have another think coming. According to a report published in the current issue of the journal Science, having boys actually shortened the life span of mothers in preindustrial times. Raising daughters, in contrast, had a positive effect on a woman's longevity. Samuli Helle of the University of Turku in Finland and his colleagues analyzed church records from 1640 to 1870 to investigate how total family size and the number of children produced affected the longevity of...