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Pleistocene epoch flute made from a cave bear bone!
A 55,000 year old flute! Humans were playing music in the the time of the Neanderthals? Is it possible the Neanderthals also played music? We have so many questions…. From The Vintage News, The...
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The fake Nostradamus that helped foil Hitler
“The way it worked behind the facade was masterful.” What a story…. From The Daily Beast, Louis de Wohl: The Astrologer Who Helped Foil Hitler In the run-up to WWII, British intelligence...
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Is this proof of ET life? The geysers of Saturn’s moon Enceladus…
If you’re into space, you’re going to be into this recent news — but it’s still a mystery as to whether this “life” is or is not presently living away its days on this moon or not. However, just the...
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Medical Archeology! — a resurrected ancient brew kills MRSA
As we have always known, an ancient brew is a powerful thing… From Smithsonian.com, This Nasty Medieval Remedy Kills MRSA An ancient brew could lead to modern-day drugs to fight the superbug By...
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Mysterious post-mortem delta waves found in the brain…
Is there life after death for our brains? The evidence says it depends. From discovermagazine.com, Brain Activity At The Moment of Death By Neuroskeptic What happens in the brain when we die?...
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For the Love of Clocks: The Very Sad Tale of the Radium Girls
A very sad story about a disposable work force, the ultimate sacrifice, and incredible corporate greed and hubris… From Buzzfeed, by Kate Moore The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls, Whose...
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Climate change is melting permafrost soils, releasing ancient viruses and...
Dig up your post-apocalyptic survivalist manuals — From the BBC, There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up By Jasmin Fox-Skelly Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice...
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Big News About Early Humans in the New World
There has been a lot of news recently about our ancestors – where they evolved and settled, and when – and these discoveries seem to imply that we are the verge of a new and exciting understanding...
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The truth behind the Garden of Eden
“Gobekli Tepe is not the Garden of Eden: it is a temple IN Eden…” This article makes a pretty solid case for the location of “the Garden of Eden”…it also makes a case for what Eden was really all...
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A New History of Human Evolution?
A newly discovered “missing link” indicates that our ancestors were evolving and splitting from chimpanzees in Europe, not in Africa. The mysterious origins of humanity continue to come to light….but...
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Massive Black Hole Smash Ups Observed
It wasn’t very long ago that black holes were considered merely theoretical — Einstein predicted the existence of black holes, but the first one was not discovered until 1971. Now with LIGO (the Laser...
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Einstein said this was impossible, but the Hubble just proved him wrong
This is how amazing the Hubble is (it’s even proving Einstein wrong lately) — “Imagine a firefly moving from one side of a U.S. quarter to the other side. You have to detect this movement from 1,500...
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The Forgotten Victims of Jack the Ripper
We are fascinated by the Ripper – he is a legend, with countless books and films dedicated to his mystery. There’s an entire field dedicated to the study of his crimes: Ripperology. But who were his...
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If You Want to Rank with the Gods, Build Something Like This…
Certainly this incredible place is the result of some serious hubris… From Abandoned Spaces, The Gods of Mount Nemrut – The most valuable monument of the Kingdom of Commagene Mount Nemrut, also...
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The mystery of the Nazca lines solved?
Water is life… From Motherboard, Satellite Images Revealed the Secret Meaning of These Ancient Desert Spirals by Kaleigh Rogers “The Nazca lines are world famous geoglyphs, and their nearby...
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Odds Are Our Star Has an “Evil” Doppelganger
This almost seems too fringe to be true (Nibiru anyone?) — but wow, won’t it be interesting if the Sun really does have a chaos-causing twin out there somewhere? Image Credit: NASA, ESA and J....
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Our nearest potentially habitable exoplanet may be a water world…
Water is life….? Credits: AFP From Futurism, One of Earth’s Closest Alien Planets Appears to Be An “Ocean World” The case for Proxima b “Proxima b’s proximity to Earth — about 4.2 light years...
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The Exotic “Soap Opera” of Ancient Queen Ankhesenamun
Hapless youngster or power-hungry murderess? Who was this Queen Ankhesenamun? Let’s find out… From Ancient Origins, The Hunt for Ankhesenamun: How Did a Young Woman Stop an Ancient Dynasty from...
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“How the creature could remain so intact is still something of a mystery…”
Mummy buffs, rejoice! First, The Siberian Beauty. Second, the dinosaur mummy. Wait, did we just type the words “dinosaur mummy?” Yes, yes we did…. From The Siberian Times, Meet the mummified Polar...
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The Earth’s First Flowers, Reconstructed At Last…
Scientists have only had a limited sense of what the ultimate flower ancestor would have looked like. Until now… From The Conversation, Revealed: the first ever flower, 140m years ago, looked like a...
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