Killer Style

Nidar Singh, a 44 year old former food packer from Wolverhampton, is the last living practitioner of shastar vidya, a Sikh battlefield art developed in the 17th century.

At Ease

Lost Roman camp used by legionnaires that protected against German hordes discovered on the river Lippe near Olfen in Western Germany.

Passing of the seasons

Archaeologist claims to have found a 12,000 year old solstice site in Clarke County, Virginia.

Extra star in the heavens, Chinese edition

An explanation on how the first recorded supernova, China 185AD, could have grown so large, so fast. It was documented at the time as a guest star.

Audio interview with Richard Dawkins.

Law & Order: Wall Street

Citigroup settles to $285m on fraud charges from the SEC.

News OWS Can Use

How to escape from zip ties.

Rape, pillage, and farming

What have the Vikings ever done for us?

"From the fury of the Northmen, Good Lord, deliver us!"

Kitchen Tips

How to peal a head of garlic in ten seconds.

Mother Was a Lovely Beast

A cave is discovered where the she-wolf supposedly suckled the mythical founders of ancient Rome.

Program or Be Programmed

Interview with Douglas Rushkoff.

Won't be the last

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has declared bankruptcy. 

Every sperm is sacred

Mississippi wants to legislate that one becomes a person at conception.

It's too early. Wake me after the Christians have arrived.

An early Celtic "Stonehenge"-like calendar has been discovered in the Black Forest.

Mankin'ds Ancient Enemy Under the Microscope

The genome of the black death genome has been sequenced.

Better to marry or burn?

Think same sex marriage is the only way that marriage is being redefined form the 1950s "Leave It to Beaver" image*? Kate Bolick writes on the changing face of marriage, being a singleton, male female relations, and coupling up in this article for the Atlantic.



*An image that was largely flash in the pan, lasting only a couple of decades.

Biggest small thing discovered

Ocean trawl offshore in Chile discovers a "megavirus", .7 micrometers in diameter. The previous record holder was the Mimivirus, discovered in a UK water  cooling tower in 1992.

The Recession is Over?

The recently rehired are making 17% less than they were before.

Still don't think it's us against them?

Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and JP Morgan are accused of charging veterans illegal fees to refinance their home loans.

Why, to me, science is better than religious faith

Dan Shechtman was ridiculed back in 1982 for his discovery of quasicrystals - atoms arranged in patterns that seem to violate laws of nature. Today, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for that discovery.

Expanding Universe

"This year's Nobel Prize in physics went to the discoverers of Dark Energy. For once, a finding bigger than the prize itself." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

All I'm Saying Is

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” - John Lennon

That's not how I heard it.

Wayland Smith and the shoeing of the White Horse according to DailyKos.

Fashion Kills

Sandblasting jeans to give them the distressed, worn look gives factory workers an incurable lung disease.

Natural History Museum Event Bling

Tatty Devine has a large dinosaur necklace.

Illegal, Unethical, Not Necessarily Fattening

Koch Brothers are doing business with Tehran against US law.