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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #404
Saturday, April 14, 2012 |
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| Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles |
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Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Found In Four Million-Year-Old Cave
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· 04/12/2012 5:42:31 PM PDT ·
· Posted by blam ·
· 34 replies ·
· Global Post ·
· 4-12-2012 ·
· Alexander Besant · |
The bacteria, found in the isolated Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico, over 1300 feet below the earth, may hold the secret to understanding drug resistance. Researchers said they discovered ancient bacteria resistant to both natural and synthetic antibiotics while investigating a 4-million-year-old cave in New Mexico. The finding, may have implications for both the understanding of drug resistance and ways of preventing it. The scientists involved collected 93 strains of bacteria from Lechuguilla cave, approximately 1300 feet deep, and found that all the strains collected were resistant to...
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double |
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Study Says DNA's Power to Predict Illness Is Limited
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· 04/07/2012 9:16:19 PM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 16 replies ·
· NY Times ·
· April 2, 2012 ·
· Gina Kolata · |
If every aspect of a person's DNA is known, would it be possible to predict the diseases in that person's future? And could that knowledge be used to forestall the otherwise inevitable? The answer, according to a new study of twins, is, for the most part, "no." While sequencing the entire DNA of individuals is proving fantastically useful in understanding diseases and finding new treatments, it is not a method that will, for the most part, predict a person's medical future. So, the new study concludes, it is not going to be possible to say that, for example, Type 2...
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| Religion of Pieces |
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Moses Was a Muslim Who Led Palestinian Muslims Out of Egypt. No Joke.
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· 04/12/2012 5:02:22 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SJackson ·
· 44 replies ·
· Algemeiner ·
· 4-10-12 ·
· David Ha'ivri · |
A few years ago, while visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, I had a very disturbing conversation with a member of the Islamic Wakf who was escorting me to make sure that I didn't pray on the holy mountain. I asked him if he could tell me when the Al Aqsa mosque was built. He looked at me with a straight face and responded that it was always there. I hadn't expected that, and of course was surprised and asked him again. I thought that maybe he didn't understand my question and meant that the mountain was always there. So...
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| Let's Have Jerusalem |
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Jews sued for 'stealing' gold in Exodus
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· 08/22/2003 5:35:19 PM PDT ·
· Posted by yhwhsman ·
· 31 replies ·
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· WorldNetDaily.com ·
· August 22, 2003 ·
· Joseph Farah · |
Law Of The Land -- Egyptians to seek compensation for 'tons' allegedly taken -- As attorneys and politicians grapple over the validity of slave reparations, a group of Egyptians have trumped the debate with a claim against Jews that dates back thousands of years. Dr. Nabil Hilmi, a dean at the University of Al-Zaqaziq, said Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland are mounting a massive lawsuit against "all Jews around the world" that seeks compensation for "tons" of gold they claim was stolen during the Jews' exodus out...
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In defense of Moses-Egyptians may sue Jews over the Exodus.
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· 08/28/2003 5:42:12 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SJackson ·
· 18 replies ·
· 654+ views ·
· Jerusalem Post ·
· 8-28-03 ·
· Moshe Kohn · |
The dean of Al-Zaqaziq University's School of Law, Dr. Nabil Hilmi, and a group of Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland are preparing to sue "all the Jews of the world and the Jews of Israel in particular" for compensation for the wealth the Bible says the Jews "stole" when Moses led them out of Egypt 34 centuries ago (Jerusalem Post, August 22). Hilmi kindly offered to let us pay in installments over 1,000 years with interest, of course. It seems that where it suits Bible-deniers like Muslims who deny that the Jews have a history whose first stages are described in...
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| PreColumbian, Clovis & PreClovis |
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Dig it! Volunteers can sign up to excavate at Topper site
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· 04/08/2012 6:08:03 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 24 replies ·
· Times and Democrat ·
· Thursday, April 5, 2012 ·
· Albert Goodyear (probably) · |
The University of South Carolina is accepting registrations from volunteers to help excavate archaeological sites along the Savannah River April 30-June 2. The expedition will be led by archaeologist Albert Goodyear, whose discoveries at the Topper site in Allendale County have captured international media attention. Volunteers will learn excavation techniques and how to identify Clovis and pre-Clovis artifacts in several prehistoric chert quarries. This year, some volunteers may also be involved in the excavation of a nearby Paleoamerican site known as the Charles site. The cost is $488 per week ($400 is tax-deductible) and includes evening lectures and programs, lunch...
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| The Vikings |
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Viking-era 'piggy bank' yields silver treasure
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· 04/12/2012 6:07:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Engraved-on-His-hands ·
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· The Local [Sweden] ·
· April 11, 2012 ·
· David Landes · |
A bronze, Viking-era "piggy-bank" containing thousands silver coins dating from the 11th century has been unearthed on the Baltic island of Gotland in what Swedish archaeologists have described as a "fantastic" treasure find. The silver treasure was found last Thursday during an archaeological examination of a field in Rone, on southern Gotland. "We had an expert out there with a metal detector who got a signal that he's found something pretty big," Per Widerstrˆm, an archaeologist with the Gotland Museum, told The Local. The same field has yielded previous treasure finds, including a well-known discovery from the 1880s, when a...
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| The Civil War |
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Civil War vet to be laid to rest --- 88 years after death
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· 04/12/2012 5:33:09 AM PDT ·
· Posted by smokingfrog ·
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· koinlocal6.com ·
· 11 April 2012 ·
· Kohr Harlan · |
Portland, Ore. --- A Civil War veteran who died years ago will finally be laid to rest this Friday in Portland. He was the youngest of 13 children, and the last one to die. And so, after he passed away, his remains laid unclaimed for 88 years. Alice Knapp's curiosity about her own family tree led her to Peter Knapp's remains. She still remembers taking possession of the box Peter's remains are in. "It was a gold box --- both he and his wife were placed in this gold box," Alice Knapp said. "It had a ribbon around it and...
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| Astronomy & Catastrophism |
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Coral Links Ice Sheet Collapse to Ancient 'Mega Flood'
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· 04/07/2012 12:01:22 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 33 replies ·
· ScienceDaily ·
· April 3, 2012 ·
· U of Oxford · |
Previous research could not accurately date the sea-level rise but now an Aix-Marseille University-led team, including Oxford University scientists Alex Thomas and Gideon Henderson, has confirmed that the event occurred 14,650-14,310 years ago at the same time as a period of rapid climate change known as the B¯lling warming... During the B¯lling warming high latitudes of the Northern hemisphere warmed as much as 15 degrees Celsius in a few tens of decades. The team has used dating evidence from Tahitian corals to constrain the sea level rise to within a period of 350 years, although the actual rise may well...
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| Climate |
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Life on the edge: Inside the world's largest STONE forest, where tropical rain has eroded rocks...
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· 04/10/2012 7:41:23 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 19 replies ·
· Daily Mail / Nat Geog ·
· Sunday, April 8, 2012 ·
· Chris Parsons · |
Inhospitable: The Grand Tsingy may look uninhabitable, but there are thought to be 11 species of lemur, 100 types of bird and 45 kinds of reptile living there Perilous: An explorer climbs among the razor-sharp peaks of the stone forest, where the eroded limestone rocks extend for 230-square miles Intrepid: Climbers Luke Padgett and John Benson scale another dangerous-looking peak in the Grand Tsingy, thought to be the world's largest stone forest Forest of life: Various forms of greenery can be spotted within the Grand Tsingy stone forest, despite the apparently inhospitable environmental conditions It's like a cave without...
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