NPR– When you think archeology, you think shovels, brushes, brooms and other time-honored tools used to uncover archeological treasures. Now a new way to peer beneath the Earth’s surface may have made an exciting find: more pyramids, buried deep under an ancient Egyptian city. By studying infrared images taken by NASA satellites, Sarah Parcak and her team from the University … Read More
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MR Original – Light Up Your Grill
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10/28/10 “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires … Read More
Old Bones Yield a New Age of Dinosaurs in Thailand
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NY TIMES– When the rains come and the rivers swell, giant bones tend to wash up in this remote rice-farming corner of Thailand. Giant tyrannosaur footprints were found in Baan Na Kum. For years, farmers did not know what they were or what to do with them. The superstitious buried them. Others brought them to Buddhist temples, where monks collected … Read More
Zeitgeist: The Movie – Documentary
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Zeitgeist: The Movie is a 2007 documentary film by Peter Joseph that examines Christianity, the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks and the Federal Reserve bank. It was created as a Not-for-Profit expression to communicate what the author felt were highly important social understandings which most humans are generally not aware of. Zeitgeist: The Movie focuses on suppressed historical & modern information about currently dominant social … Read More
Dinsoaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth
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SPACE DAILY– According to new research led by a University of Colorado at Boulder geophysicist, a giant asteroid that hit the coast of Mexico 65 million years ago probably incinerated all the large dinosaurs that were alive at the time in only a few hours, and only those organisms already sheltered in burrows or in water were left alive. The … Read More