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The ancient coastal waters of the Pacific, roughly 11 to 5 million years ago, were home to a bizarre and fascinating species of giant salmon with large spike-like teeth. This spike-toothed salmon reached sizes of 1-3m (3′-9′) in length, much … Continue reading →

Need me? Will you still feed me? Today I’m 64…   I was 14 and hitchhiking to Alaska when this song came out. I first heard it being sung by Boy Scouts on the Yukon River and thought I’d never be … Continue reading →

In 2001 BMW picked Clive Owens to star in a series of ultra-short 5 minute action movies called The Hire. Directed by some of the world’s greatest action directors  (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, John Frankenheimer, Joe Carnahan, Guy Ritchie, John Woo, Ang Lee, and … Continue reading →

A combination of historical and genetic research reveals the error and hype that led to the coining of the term ‘Patient Zero’ and the blaming of one man for the spread of HIV across North America. A combination of historical … Continue reading →

Thousands of years before cats came to dominate Internet culture, they swept through ancient Eurasia and Africa carried by early farmers, ancient mariners and even Vikings, finds the first large-scale look at ancient-cat DNA. The study, presented at a conference … Continue reading →

Excavations that have been conducted on Bathonea on the coasts of Küçükçekmece Lake in Istanbul’s Avcılar district have unearthed nearly 700 small ceramic or glass bottles containing antidepressant pills and heart disease drugs (from 620-640 CE), “There were lots of pestles, … Continue reading →

For the first time in ages I intentionally clicked on an online ad and discovered this. I don’t really need another rabbit hole but as I watch less and less TV stuff like this becomes increasingly attractive.   The first … Continue reading →

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare stone figurine of a woman dating back 8,000 years at a dig in Turkey’s central province of Konya that an expert says is one of only handful of statuettes of the era ever found in … Continue reading →

Since the US media has become a bunch of corporate shills instead of investigative journalists we have to depend of other countries’ news outlets for stories like this. Leaked court documents from ‘John Doe investigation’ in Wisconsin lay bare pervasive … Continue reading →