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A brain in near-perfect condition is found in a skull of a person who was decapitated over 2,600 years ago. THE GIST • One of the world's best preserved prehistoric human brains was recently found in a waterlogged U.K. pit. • The brain belonged to an Iron Age man who was hanged and then decapitated, with his head falling in the pit shortly thereafter. • Scientists believe that submersion in liquid, anoxic environments helps to preserve human brain tissue. • One of the pieces of a 2,600-year-old brain after removal from the skull. 
York Archaeological Trust A human skull dated...

Ted Kennedy should be thankful that the University of Virginia isn’t in the habit of revoking degrees. Otherwise, Massachusetts’ senior senator would be in serious danger of losing his degree based on the legal incompetence he’s demonstrated in his questioning of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Kennedy, who inherited his Senate sear a measly 43 years ago, hasn’t been the only senator to embarrass himself at the Roberts hearing. Almost without exception, the senators – Democrat and Republican –have been long-winded, arrogant and incapable of appreciating the distinction between constitutional theory and political advocacy. But Kennedy has been in a...

Does Ted Kennedy Have Alzheimer’s? You might think I am joking but there really can not be many other reasons for what is coming out of his mouth. The man is just doing to much damage to his own party for this to be a well thought out attack on Bush. His rhetoric is so unbelievable that especially in context with the history of his family; he should know better. When he calls Iraq a quagmire he is of course relating it to Vietnam which is ironic because his brother did have a quagmire on his hands in Vietnam. It...