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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #384 Saturday, November 26, 2011 |
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| Watery secret of the dinosaur death pose (Simplest explanation of Dino extinction: They drowned) |
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· 11/26/2011 6:26:37 PM PST · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 23 replies · · New Scientist · · 11/23/2011 · · by Brian Switek · |
Recreating the spectacular pose many dinosaurs adopted in death might involve following the simplest of instructions: just add water. When palaeontologists are lucky enough to find a complete dinosaur skeleton -- whether it be a tiny Sinosauropteryx or an enormous Apatosaurus -- there's a good chance it will be found with its head thrown backwards and its tail arched upwards -- technically known as the opisthotonic death pose. No one is entirely sure why this posture is so common, but Alicia Cutler and colleagues from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, think it all comes down to a dip in... |
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| Dinosaurs | |
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| Nest Full of Baby Dinosaurs Discovered |
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· 11/20/2011 6:29:52 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 24 replies · · Discovery News via Fox · · November 16, 2011 · · Jennifer Viegas · |
A 70-million-year-old nest of the dinosaur Protoceratops andrewsi has been found with evidence that 15 juveniles were once inside it, according to a paper in the latest Journal of Paleontology. While large numbers of eggs have been associated with other dinosaurs, such as the meat-eating Oviraptor or certain duck-billed hadrosaurs, finding multiple juveniles in the same dino nest is quite rare... All were found at Djadochta Formation, Tugrikinshire, Mongolia, where it's believed sand "rapidly overwhelmed and entombed" the youngsters while they were still alive. The researchers conclude that the 15 dinosaurs all show juvenile characteristics. These include short snouts, proportionately... |
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| Paleontology | |
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| Whales in the desert: Fossil bonanza poses mystery |
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· 11/20/2011 1:41:13 PM PST · · Posted by Daffynition · · 68 replies · · AP via Phys.org · · November 19, 2011 · · Eva Vergara and Ian James · |
Maybe they became disoriented and beached themselves. Maybe they were trapped in a lagoon by a landslide or a storm. Maybe they died there over a period of a few millennia. But somehow, they ended up right next to one another, many just meters (yards) apart, entombed as the shallow sea floor was driven upward by geological forces and transformed into the driest place on the planet. Today, they have emerged again atop a desert hill more than a kilometer (half a mile) from the surf, where researchers have begun to unearth one of the world's best-preserved graveyards of prehistoric... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Sorry, Strivers: Talent Matters |
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· 11/20/2011 9:02:21 AM PST · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 73 replies · · Sunday NY Times Review · · 11-20-11 · · David Z. Hambrick and Elizabeth J. Meinz · |
HOW do people acquire high levels of skill in science, business, music, the arts and sports? This has long been a topic of intense debate in psychology. ...what seems to separate the great from the merely good is hard work, not intellectual ability...Malcolm Gladwell observes that...snip "Once someone has reached an I.Q. of somewhere around 120," he writes, "having additional I.Q. points doesn't seem to translate into any measureable real-world advantage."snip.. But this isn't quite the story that science tells. Research has shown that intellectual ability matters for success in many fields --- and not just up to a point.... |
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| Genetic Study Confirms: First Dogs Came from East Asia |
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· 11/23/2011 7:43:40 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 21 replies · · KTH Royal Institute of Technology · · November 23, 2011 · · Katarina Ahlfort · |
Researchers at KTH say they have found further proof that the wolf ancestors of today's domesticated dogs can be traced to southern East Asia --- findings that run counter to theories placing the cradle of the canine line in the Middle East.Dr Peter Savolainen, KTH researcher in evolutionary genetics, says a new study released Nov. 23 confirms that an Asian region south of the Yangtze River was the principal and probably sole region where wolves were domesticated by humans. Data on genetics, morphology and behaviour show clearly that dogs are descended from wolves, but there's never been scientific consensus on... |
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| Epigraphy & Language | |
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| Darwin's Tongues: Languages, like genes, can tell evolutionary tales |
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· 11/26/2011 5:48:41 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · · Science News · · November 19th, 2011 · · Bruce Bower · |
Others suspect Atkinson's analytical approach could be fruitful if informed by more sophisticated assumptions about how languages change. "I think many linguists would praise Atkinson's contribution if it weren't for the fact that his conclusions are so outlandish and contrary to linguistic intuition," says linguist Michael Cysouw of Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in Germany. One problem lies in Atkinson's focus on frequencies of only one linguistic element, phonemes, to retrace language evolution. "That could be compared to tracking the history of vertebrates by counting the number of bones in their skeletons," Cysouw says. The database of phonemes consulted by Atkinson... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| New Theory on When Western Wall Was Built |
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· 11/23/2011 2:12:31 AM PST · · Posted by Never A Dull Moment · · 17 replies · · Arutz Sheva · · 11-23-2011 · · By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu · |
The discovery of a new ritual pool [mikveh] under the Western Wall suggests a new theory that the Kotel was completed years later than during the reign of King Herod, as was believed until now. Israel Antiquities Authority excavations of an ancient drainage channel underneath the main street used by pilgrims 2,000 years ago revealed the ritual pool. The excavations beneath the paved road exposed sections of the Western Wall foundations. Dr. Donald Ariel, a native of the United States, said the coins that were discovered in the area were struck by the Roman procurator in the years 17-18 in... |
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| New Find Sheds Light on Ancient Site in Jerusalem |
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· 11/23/2011 8:10:21 AM PST · · Posted by lbryce · · 5 replies · · AP via Yahoo News · · November 23, 2011 · · Matti Friedman · |
Newly found coins underneath Jerusalem's Western Wall could change the accepted belief about the construction of one of the world's most sacred sites two millennia ago, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The man usually credited with building the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary is Herod, a Jewish ruler who died in 4 B.C. Herod's monumental compound replaced and expanded a much older Jewish temple complex on the same site. But archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority now say diggers have found coins underneath the massive foundation stones of the compound's Western... |
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| New Find Sheds Light on Ancient Site in Jerusalem |
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· 11/24/2011 7:34:21 AM PST · · Posted by marshmallow · · 7 replies · · AP · · 11/23/11 · · Matti Friedman · |
JERUSALEM (AP) --- Newly found coins underneath Jerusalem's Western Wall could change the accepted belief about the construction of one of the world's most sacred sites two millennia ago, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The man usually credited with building the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary is Herod, a Jewish ruler who died in 4 B.C. Herod's monumental compound replaced and expanded a much older Jewish temple complex on the same site. But archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority now say diggers have found coins underneath the massive foundation stones of... |
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| Coins from 17AD found under Jerusalem's Western Wall hints sacred site NOT built by Herod |
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· 11/26/2011 3:24:42 AM PST · · Posted by Renfield · · 14 replies · · Daily Mail (UK) · · 11-25-2011 · · Rob Waugh · |
The history of one of the world's holiest sites - sacred to both Jews and Muslims - is set to be rewritten, following a surprise discovery in a ritual bath beneath the complex. It proves that the Wall - supposedly built by Herod, the Jewish king who features prominently in the Gospels, was in fact built much later. Newly found coins underneath Jerusalem's Western Wall could change the accepted belief about the construction of one of the world's most sacred sites two millennia ago, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday.... |
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| Faith & Philosophy | |
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| Mystery of Dead Sea Scroll Authors Possibly Solved |
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· 11/22/2011 7:19:20 AM PST · · Posted by shove_it · · 28 replies · · Yahoo! · · 22 Nov 2011 · · Owen Jarus · |
The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the Essenes, according to nearly 200 textiles discovered in caves at Qumran, in the West Bank, where the religious texts had been stored. Scholars are divided about who authored the Dead Sea Scrolls and how the texts got to Qumran, and so the new finding could help clear up this long-standing mystery. The research reveals that all the textiles were made of linen, rather than wool, which was the preferred textile used in ancient Israel. Also they lack decoration, some actually being bleached... |
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| Middle Ages & Renaissance | |
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| Rare 14th century time-telling instrument, marked with badge of Richard II, to sell at Bonhams |
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· 11/19/2011 2:39:54 AM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 15 replies · · ArtDaily · · November 2, 2011 · · unattributed · |
This quadrant is the earliest of a similar group of three other quadrants dated 1398, 1399 and circa 1400 respectively... Like the others, it is noteworthy for showing equal hours, in which the entire period from midnight to midnight is divided into twenty four equal parts. This technique had developed slowly during the 14th century. Indeed one of the earliest examples in England of an administrative record using equal hours occurs on the occasion of Richard II's abdication on 30 September 1399 stated to have been 'at about the ninth stroke of the clock'. On its reverse, the quadrant features... |
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| British Isles | |
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| Doctors could learn from Shakespeare's deep understanding of mind-body connection |
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· 11/23/2011 7:58:28 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 10 replies · · BMJ-British Medical Journal · · November 23, 2011 · |
Body-conscious Shakespeare: Sensory disturbances in troubled charactersShakespeare was a master at portraying profound emotional upset in the physical symptoms of his characters, and many modern day doctors would do well to study the Bard to better understand the mind-body connection, concludes an analysis of his works, published in Medical Humanities. Kenneth Heaton, a medical doctor and extensively published author on William Shakespeare's oeuvre, systematically analysed 42 of the author's major works and 46 of those of his contemporaries, looking for evidence of psychosomatic symptoms. He focused on sensory symptoms other than those relating to sight, taste, the heart, and the... |
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| Early America | |
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| How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims |
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· 11/24/2011 8:45:34 AM PST · · Posted by FreeKeys · · 23 replies · · Hoover Digest · · January 30, 1999 · · Tom Bethell · |
When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, they established a system of communal property. Within three years they had scrapped it, instituting private property instead. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell tells the story. There are three configurations of property rights: state, communal, and private property. Within a family, many goods are in effect communally owned. But when the number of communal members exceeds normal family size, as happens in tribes and communes, serious and intractable problems arise. It becomes costly to police the activities of the members, all of whom are entitled to their share of the total product of the... |
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| The General | |
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| What did George Washington Drink? |
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· 11/19/2011 8:35:32 AM PST · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 46 replies · · Wall St Journal · · NOVEMBER 19, 2011 · · WILLIAM BOSTWICK · |
In the spirit of authenticity, a home-brewer attempts to recreate a founding father's beer recipe. It was last Thanksgiving. I had my heirloom turkey, local yams and organic cranberries. I had donned my waxed-canvas apron and consulted vintage recipe books. I was ready to eat. But on this, the most heritage-chic of holidays, what should one drink? Wine felt too stuffy; a six-pack not ceremonial enough. I was stumped. Then I discovered George Washington's beer. Or, more precisely, a recipe for it, referenced in a few old home-brewing books. Scribbled on the last page of one of Washington's journals is... |
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| Longer Perspectives | |
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| Public Education: How Wishful Thinking and Good Intentions Destroyed Public Education |
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· 10/25/2011 4:17:40 PM PDT · · Posted by wayne_shrugged · · 11 replies · · Public Ed Dread · · 10/25/2011 · · Bridgette Wallis · |
New Book on Public Education Public Ed Dread: How Wishful Thinking and Good Intentions Reformed Academics Right Out of Our Public Schools is a must-read for concerned parents, homeschoolers, grassroots reformers, and concerned citizens alike trying to make sense of American public education. This book was written by a teacher with years of experience in the system. The author taught in a low-income, Title I failing school in California where she experienced the politics of whole language and No Child Left Behind. She also taught in a middle-class, suburban school where she witnessed the effects of the accountability reform movement... |
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| Ancient Autopsies | |
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| DNA frozen in permafrost muck reveals ancient ecosystems |
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· 11/21/2011 6:15:14 PM PST · · Posted by Renfield · · 14 replies · · Montreal Gazette · · November 19, 2011 · · Ed Struzik · |
EDMONTON --- University of Alberta scientist Duane Froese was on sabbatical last summer when he received a call from a Yukon miner who wanted to give him the heads-up about a site he planned to excavate. Like most Klondike miners, Tony Beets is a character. He's tall, bushy-haired, drives fast and uses colourful language. But he'd also been incredibly helpful over the years, moving in heavy equipment for scientists such as Froese, exposing layers of ancient permafrost that yielded the frozen bones of woolly mammoths, scimitar cats, short-faced bears and other animals that lived in this part of the world... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis & PreClovis | |
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| American Indian Collectivism: Past Myth, Present Reality |
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· 11/24/2011 4:39:57 PM PST · · Posted by OddLane · · 9 replies · · PERC · · Summer 2006 · · Carlos L. Rodriguez and Craig S. Galbraith · |
In the past, most if not all North American indigenous peoples had a strong belief in individual property rights and ownership. Frederick Hodge (1910) noted that individual private ownership was "the norm" for North American tribes. Likewise, Julian Steward (1938, 253) asserted that among Native Americans communal property was limited, and Frances Densmore (1939) concluded that the Makah tribe in the Pacific Northwest had property rights similar to Europeans.¬' These early twentieth-century historians and anthropologists had the advantage of actually interviewing tribal members who had lived in pre-reservation Indian society. |
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| Megaliths & Archaeoastronomy | |
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| Mexico Acknowledges 2nd Mayan Reference To 2012 |
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· 11/24/2011 7:02:11 PM PST · · Posted by edpc · · 53 replies · · AP via Yahoo News · · 24 Nov 2011 · · Mark Stevenson · |
MEXICO CITY (AP) --- Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site. Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. |
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| Peru & the Andes | |
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| Ancient mass grave of children found in Peru |
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· 11/21/2011 8:53:04 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · · Reuters · · Monday, November 21, 2011 · · unattributed · |
A Peruvian archaeologist has discovered the remains of 44 infants and young children sacrificed to appease ancient deities in the 14th century at a site in the Andes near the Bolivian border. The remains were found near a stone funeral tower --- known locally as chullpas --- in the Sillustani archaeological site, located some 1300 kilometres south-east of the capital Lima, near Lake Titicaca, which Peru shares with Bolivia... The infants were buried in pairs inside funeral baskets or in ceramic urns near a 10-metre-tall circular stone brick tower known as Chullpa Lagarto (Lizard Chullpa). The children were buried with... |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| Is this an alien skull? Mystery of giant-headed mummy found in Peru |
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· 11/19/2011 8:07:52 AM PST · · Posted by Perdogg · · 87 replies · · Daily Mail UK · |
A mummified elongated skull found in Peru could finally prove the existence of aliens. The strangely shaped head - almost as big as its 50cm (20in) body - has baffled anthropologists. It was one of two sets of remains found in the city of Andahuaylillas in the southern province of Quispicanchi. |
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| Not-So-Ancient Autopsies | |
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| The John F. Kennedy Assassination Homepage |
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· 11/22/2011 8:20:07 AM PST · · Posted by NEWwoman · · 146 replies · · jfk-assassination.com · · 4 Mar 2006 · |
During his electoral battle tour in the south of the States, John F. Kennedy visited Dallas (Texas) on November 22, 1963. On his arrival at 1140 hours, he was warmly welcomed by the people of Dallas. Kennedy, Governor John Connally and their wives sat down in the limousine of the President which led the motorcade through the town. |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| 40 years later, new evidence unveiled in DB Cooper case |
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· 11/24/2011 4:52:50 AM PST · · Posted by Morgana · · 34 replies · · MSN · · 11/24/2011 · · Chris Ingalls · |
This Thanksgiving marks the 40th anniversary of a legendary Northwest crime. In 1971 skyjacker DB Cooper parachuted into the night sky over Washington and vanished. Now, FBI agents have something they don't often get in a 40-year-old criminal case: new physical evidence. It comes from the clip-on tie left behind on the hijacked plane from the man known as DB Cooper. For three years a team of private scientists has been studying evidence from the Cooper case, at the invitation of the Seattle office of the FBI. "One of the most notable particles that we've found, that had us the... |
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| D.B. Cooper: 40 years later - November 24th, 2011, marks the 40th anniversary of the legendary case |
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· 11/25/2011 2:35:32 PM PST · · Posted by DogByte6RER · · 37 replies · · Yahoo! News · · November 24, 2011 · · Yahoo! News · |
D.B. Cooper: 40 years later November 24th, 2011, marks the 40th anniversary of the legendary Cooper case, an unsolved crime that has baffled agents, detectives and amateur sleuths, and spurned one of the greatest manhunts in law enforcement history. The FBI's case file on D.B. Cooper runs some forty feet long. It is located in the basement archives of the Bureau's field office in Seattle, where for four decades agents have hunted for the man who ransomed a passenger jet for a small fortune and parachutes, then jumped out the back over the rural Northwest, during the middle of a... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #385 Saturday, December 3, 2011 |
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| Faith & Philosophy | |
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| Muslim Medical Students Boycotting Science Classes on evolution because it clashes with the Koran |
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· 11/27/2011 9:39:54 AM PST · · Posted by mnehring · · 26 replies · · Atlas Shruggs · |
I am surprised the headline wasn't 'Darwin hate speech incites Muslim extremism. The idea that they reject that which conflicts with their belief system is consistent with everything we have suffered in this war on the West. They rewrote the history on Israel and the Middle East (not to mention taking credit for "scientific inventions" invented by others) and the left swallowed it whole - let's see where this goes.Muslim medical students boycotting lectures on evolution... because it 'clashes with the Koran' By Daily Mail Reporter (hat tip Phillipa) Conflict: An increasing number of Muslim biology students are boycotting... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| Arabian Artifacts May Rewrite 'Out of Africa' Theory |
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· 12/01/2011 7:11:53 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · · LiveScience · · Wednesday, November 30, 2011 · · Charles Choi · |
Newfound stone artifacts suggest humankind left Africa traveling through the Arabian Peninsula instead of hugging its coasts... stone artifacts at least 100,000 years old... more-than-100 newly discovered sites in the Sultanate of Oman apparently confirm that modern humans left Africa through Arabia long before genetic evidence suggests. Oddly, these sites are located far inland, away from the coasts. ...in the Dhofar Mountains of southern Oman, nestled in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula... of a style dubbed Nubian Middle Stone Age, well-known throughout the Nile Valley, where they date back about 74,000-to-128,000 years... Subsequent field work turned up dozens... |
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| Deep sea fishing for tuna began 42,000 years ago |
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· 11/27/2011 1:20:29 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 44 replies · · New Scientist · · November 24, 2011 · · Wendy Zukerman · |
Tuna has been on the menu for a lot longer than we thought. Even 42,000 years ago, the deep-sea dweller wasn't safe from fishing tackle according to new finds in southeast Asia. We know that open water was no barrier to travel in the Pleistocene -- humans must have crossed hundreds of kilometres of ocean to reach Australia by 50,000 years ago. But while humans had already been pulling shellfish out of the shallows for 100,000 years by that point, the first good evidence of fishing with hooks or spears comes much later -- around 12,000 years ago. The new... |
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| Prehistoric Men Scarred, Pierced, Tattooed Privates |
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· 11/27/2011 2:55:38 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 80 replies · · Discovery News · · Friday, November 11, 2011 · · Jennifer Viegas · |
Men in prehistoric Europe scarred, pierced and tattooed their penises, likely for ritualistic and social group reasons, according to a new study. Analysis of phallic decorations in Paleolithic art, described in the December issue of The Journal of Urology, may also show evidence of the world's first known surgery performed on a male genital organ. The alteration, or surgery, might have just been for ornamental purposes, or a piercing, the researchers suggest... Angulo and colleagues Marcos Garcia-Diez and Marc Martinez studied male genital representations in portable, mostly handheld sizes of art made in Europe approximately 38,000 to 11,000 years ago.... |
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| Archaeologists make new Stonehenge 'sun worship' find |
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· 11/28/2011 6:59:14 PM PST · · Posted by decimon · · 15 replies · · BBC · · November 28, 2011 · |
Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones were erected.The pits are positioned on celestial alignment at the site and may have contained stones, posts or fires to mark the rising and setting of the sun. An international archaeological survey team found the pits as part of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project. The team is using geophysical imaging techniques to investigate the site. The archaeologists from the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection in Vienna have been surveying... |
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| One of the earliest known examples of math homework |
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· 12/01/2011 7:56:37 PM PST · · Posted by thecodont · · 27 replies · · BoingBoing · · at 10:42 am Thursday, Dec 1 2011 · · By Maggie Koerth-Baker · |
It's stuff like this that makes me love archaeology. Turns out, we can trace the concept of math homework back to at least 2300 B.C.E., in ancient Mesopotamia. In the early 20th century, German researchers found several clay tablets at the site of Shuruppak. (Today, that's basically the Iraqi city of Tell Fara.) Some of the tablets appear to be the remains of math instruction, including two different tablets that are working the same story problem. A loose translation of the problem is: A granary. Each man receives 7 sila of grain. How many men? That is, the tablets concern... |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| Mayans Never Predicted December 2012 Apocalypse, Researchers Say |
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· 12/02/2011 11:46:17 AM PST · · Posted by Winstons Julia · · 52 replies · · History · · 12/2/11 · · Staff · |
Various Mayan scholars have attempted to debunk this reading, including Sven Gronemeyer of Australia's La Trobe University, who has studied the Tortugero tablet in great detail. On Wednesday he presented his decoding of the inscription, suggesting that Bolon Yokte's prophesied appearance on December 21, 2012, represents the start of a new era and not the end of days. Proponents of the apocalyptic interpretation have misunderstood the poorly preserved hieroglyphs, he said. |
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| THE LAST CODE TALKER |
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· 11/12/2011 4:31:20 PM PST · · Posted by CedarDave · · 35 replies · · The Albuquerque Journal · · Friday, November 11, 2011 · · Journal Staff · |
With gnarled fingers, Chester Nez reverently opened the small box his son Mike had fetched for him at their West Mesa home. Even at 90 years old, Nez's face still beams as he proudly opens it. Careful not to touch the gold medal, Nez shares a secret. "On the other side it says, "'We used our language to defeat the enemy,' and that's what we did," he said. Nez carefully puts the lid back on the box and hands it to his son for safekeeping. Inside is a Congressional Gold Medal -- one of only 29 in existence -- given... |
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| Newly Declassified Memo Reveals Roosevelt Was Warned of Tokyo's Focus on Hawaii |
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· 11/29/2011 7:32:32 PM PST · · Posted by Hojczyk · · 79 replies · · Gateway Pundit · · November 29,2011 · · Jim Hoft · |
A newly released memo revealed that President Roosevelt was warned that Tokyo was focused on Hawaii days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Washington Whispers reported: Three days before the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt was warned in a memo from naval intelligence that Tokyo's military and spy network was focused on Hawaii, a new and eerie reminder of FDR's failure to act on a basket load of tips that war was near. In the newly revealed 20-page memo from FDR's declassified FBI file, the Office of Naval Intelligence on December 4 warned, "In anticipation... |
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| New Kennedy Assassination Tapes Revealed |
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· 11/15/2011 7:31:53 PM PST · · Posted by smokingfrog · · 80 replies · · abcnews.go.com · · 15 Nov 2011 · · Jack Cloherty · |
Nearly 48 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, fresh audio evidence from that fateful day has surfaced. The evidence comes in the form of the original reel-to-reel Air Force One radio recording, containing conversations between officials on the plane, the White House situation room, and others. The original tape was long thought to be lost or destroyed. The tape contains never-before-heard conversations between the presidential aircraft and the White House and immediately after the assassination of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. It was held privately for years by President Kennedy's military aide at the time, Chester... |
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| The National Security Agency Releases Over 50,000 Pages of Declassified Documents |
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· 12/03/2011 3:15:27 AM PST · · Posted by Las Vegas Dave · · 16 replies · · The National Security Agency · · 8 June 2011 · · n/a · |
The National Security Agency (NSA) announces today that it has declassified and released to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) over 50,000 pages of historic records. These records cover a time-frame from before World War I through the 1960s. This release of documents is the first in a series of releases planned over the next two years as part of NSA/CSS's commitment to meeting the requirements outlined in the President's 21 January 2009 Memorandum on Openness and Transparency in Government (Executive Order 13526). Highlights of this release include: ïManuals, charts, and other documents on the development of early computer... |
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| Egypt | |
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| Islamists Take Over Egypt |
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· 11/13/2011 5:52:12 AM PST · · Posted by IbJensen · · 25 replies · · Right Side News · · 11/11/2011 · · Khaled Abu Toameh · |
Library of Alexandria to Be Burned Again; Food for Half-Price The Royal Library of Alexandria in Egypt, the largest and most significant library of the ancient world, is now being targeted by radical Muslims who seek to replace it with a mosque. Radical Islamic groups claim that the library's art programs, which include music and ballet dancing, spread "depravity" in Egyptian society. ª If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter Library_of_Alexandria_great_hallThe Islamist campaign against the library is taking place under the looking eyes of Egypt's military dictators, who are burying their heads in the sand and... |
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| Egypt Falls into Darkness |
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· 11/16/2011 5:20:57 AM PST · · Posted by SJackson · · 16 replies · · FrontPage Magazine · · November 16, 2011 · · Daniel Greenfield · |
Rebuilding the Library of Alexandria some 1300 hundred years after its final destruction at the hands of its Islamic conquerors in a country where blasphemy against Islam is still a crime was always a fool's errand. But it was a fool's errand lavishly embraced by every collection of useful idiots from UNESCO to the National Library of France, which kicked in half a million books. Most of the money was spent constructing a massive edifice housing only a fraction of the books that could be found in the Harvard University Library, the Library of Congress or the British Library in... |
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| Archaeology meets politics: Spring comes to ancient Egypt |
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· 12/01/2011 8:25:02 PM PST · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 7 replies · · Nature · · Wednesday, November 23, 2011 · · Jo Marchant · |
In a secluded stretch of desert about 300 kilometres south of Cairo, hundreds of bodies lie buried in the sand. Wrapped in linen and rolled up in stiff mats made of sticks... their ornate plaited hair styles and simple personal possessions help to reveal details about the individuals in each grave. The bodies date from... when the Pharaoh Akhenaten... moved his capital to remote Amarna, to worship... the Sun disc Aten... Barry Kemp, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, and director of the Amarna Project, has been working with his colleagues to excavate the skeletons, and says that... |
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