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Just your ordinary average everyday Scottish bampot and circumbendibus relator of infantile jocundity
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Ancient Gladiator Sketches Likely Drawn by a Child Discovered in Pompeii (gizmodo.com)
Beautiful frescoes, rudimentary doodles, and a pair of skeletons are the latest discoveries out of Pompeii’s ongoing excavations....
China's latest weapon of war is a gun-toting robot dog (www.businessinsider.com)
China unveiled robot dogs with machine guns that could replace soldiers....
Long Covid teachers join forces to sue ministers (schoolsweek.co.uk)
Scores of teachers with “catastrophic” long Covid plan to launch a group legal challenge against the government, claiming pandemic policy failures led to them being infected at work....
Nine Takeaways From Our Investigation Into 3M’s Forever Chemicals (www.propublica.org)
What you need to know about the inside story of how the company allowed PFOS to seep into all of us while sitting on research that showed the chemical is toxic....
FBI investigating missing ancient treasures from British Museum (www.bbc.co.uk)
The British Museum announced last year that ancient gems, jewellery and other items from its collection, were missing, stolen or damaged....
Parkinson’s Linked With Industrial Solvents in Drinking Water (theamazingtimes.com)
Exposure to the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) and other volatile organic compounds in drinking water raised the risk of Parkinson’s disease decades later, an analysis of 158,000 military veterans showed....
Alaska's Pristine Waterways Are Turning a Shocking Orange (www.sciencealert.com)
Some of Alaska’s clear, icy blue waterways are turning a startling rust orange – so intense it’s visible from Earth’s orbit....
Egypt is building a $1-billion mega-museum. Will it bring Egyptology home? (www.nature.com)
For 100 years, Egypt’s scientists have watched as their nation’s story was largely told by institutions from Europe and the United States....
Crows Can Actually Count Out Loud, Amazing New Study Shows (www.sciencealert.com)
A team of scientists has shown that crows can ‘count’ out loud – producing a specific and deliberate number of caws in response to visual and auditory cues. While other animals such as honeybees have shown an ability to understand numbers, this specific manifestation of numeric literacy has not yet been observed in any...
Dyson spheres: astronomers report potential candidates for alien megastructures – here’s what to make of it (theconversation.com)
A quick calculation reveals that, if we wanted to collect 10% of the Sun’s energy at the distance the Earth is from the Sun, we’d need a surface area equal to 1 billion Earths. And if we had a super-advanced technology that could make the megastructure only 10km thick, that’d mean we’d need about a million Earths worth...
Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized World Discovered Just 40 Light-Years Away (www.sciencealert.com)
A world that bears more than a passing similarity to Earth has just been discovered orbiting a star just 40 light-years from the Solar System....
Alaska moose kills man trying to photograph its newborn calves (www.bbc.co.uk)
An Alaskan man has been killed by a moose that charged suddenly while he was trying to take photographs of its two calves....
Havana Syndrome: We Don’t Need to Choose between Brain Injury and ‘Mass Hysteria’ (www.scientificamerican.com)
Puzzling Havana Syndrome injuries that have afflicted U.S. diplomats may have a more complicated explanation than solely pulsed microwaves or mass psychology...
Why physicists now question the fate of the Universe (bigthink.com)
For nearly 25 years, we thought we knew how the Universe would end. Now, new measurements point to a profoundly different conclusion....
Researchers discover hidden step in dinosaur feather evolution (phys.org)
The team used ultraviolet (UV) light to identify patches of preserved skin, which are invisible in natural light. Further investigation of the fossil skin using X-rays and infrared light revealed spectacular details of preserved cellular structure....
Exploring Our Solar System with Webb (webbtelescope.org)
Viewing our cosmic neighbors in a new light...
The Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life: A Thought Experiment on Potential Implications (newspaceeconomy.ca)
Suppose that we have definitively detected extraterrestrial life. It could be simple, unicellular organisms on Mars or Europa, complex alien fauna in a distant exoplanet, or even an advanced civilization reaching out to us. The exact form and location are not as crucial as the fact of their existence itself. This revelation...
15 Cryptids That Have Escaped Human Detection (For Now) (technabob.com)
Cryptozoology is the study of mythical creatures. They could be extinct animals thought to have come back to life or new species that have yet to be identified. Whether we believe it or not, cryptozoology is fascinating, and we’d all love to see one of those animals discovered and named beyond any reasonable doubt.
New Mexico’s UFO incidents you’ve never heard of (www.msn.com)
You probably already know about the Roswell UFO incident, but New Mexico’s history of unidentified flying objects is far richer – and weirder – than just that one event....
Nightmares could be an early warning sign of an autoimmune disease flare-up – new study (theconversation.com)
Nightmares are unpleasant, but perfectly normal – for most. However, my colleagues and I have recently discovered that they can also presage autoimmune diseases, such as lupus....
Body lice may be bigger plague spreaders than previously thought (phys.org)
A new laboratory study suggests that human body lice are more efficient at transmitting Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, than previously thought, supporting the possibility that they may have contributed to past pandemics....
Deciphering Middle Stone Age Technological Behaviors: An Analysis of the Lithic Technology from Level VI-B at Mumba, Tanzania (link.springer.com)
The lithic assemblage recovered from sublevels VI-B Middle and Upper appears to be the result of Homo sapiens group settlements at Lake Eyasi during the first part of MIS5....
Massive invasive snakes are on the loose and spreading in Puerto Rico (www.vox.com)
Runaway pets — and possibly some zoo escapees — have fueled the spread of invasive snakes across the island. It’s an environmental catastrophe in the making....
We May Know a Whole Lot More About UFOs Soon (gizmodo.com)
It’s very possible we’ll know more about UFOs soon. Due to a stipulation inside the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, the federal government is now required to share any and all internal reports on the subject of unidentified flying objects with the National Archives, which will then (eventually) share those reports...