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As mentioned previously, I have been asked to join a new blog effort created by Seed Media. Future posts of mine can be found at: afarensis:...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4589638.stm   From BBC News comes this story about bog people:   “Archaeologists have ...

Photo from the Museum of Cycladic Art Archaeologists are to begin new excavations on the Greek island of Keros in April 2006. From ABC News ...

According to a story on ABC News the question of Mozart's skull remains unresolved. Researchers were testing DNA extracted from the sku...

Via Eschaton Howard Dean destroys Blitzer and demonstrates what's wrong with the MSM. WOW!

In most movies, such as Jurassic Park (and it's sequels), Tyrannosaurs are portrayed running about eating anything that moves. Presumabl...

I have selected a new Site of the Week for Transitions. If you love fossils you will like this site, check it out! Really, you will love al...

Homeland Security opening private mail : In the 50 years that Grant Goodman has known and corresponded with a colleague in the Philippines h...

Analysts: Bush spying rationale legally shaky: Memo questions use of presidential power in wiretapping without approval : A report by Congre...

According to this press release a new greek temple dating to the 6th century BC has been found in Albania: The temple they have discovered,...

In case you haven't stumbled across this elsewhere, Darksyde interviewed PZ Myers here . Fascinating stuff... A couple of my favorites: ...

From MSNBC:   Lou Rawls, the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church choir boy and went on to record such classic tunes as “You’l...

From National Geographic News comes this interesting story: The strength of a unique male bond between a young hippopotamus and a 130-year-...

According to New Scientist VIKING warriors may have filed deep grooves into their teeth to indicate class or military rank. From the article...

From National Geographic News: Evidence of Maya writing that dates to 2,300 years ago has turned up in a pyramidal structure in Guatemala. ...

Welcome to Tangled Bank # 44! When I volunteered to host this edition of the Tangled Bank I was expecting to read a lot of good science writ...

http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/2006/01/03/let_me_draw_your_attention.php Hysterical! If I had known about it I would have included...