Links, Historical

Skeletons discovered in an ancient cemetery in the southwest of France have shackles on their necks.

Alcohol-vapors might be the solution to the Marie Celeste mystery.

Danish Bronze Age glass beads traced to Egypt.

Science Links, 9/23/14, yes, late

Ex-engineer of NASA and Tesla designed and a built a smart lightbulb. It can "see" ambient light and adjust itself accordingly as well as "remember" schedules and patterns in the house and "prepare" for use.  

Infant solar system shows sign of windy weather.

Radiation strike slows down NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

Pharaoh-branded amulet found at an ancient copper mine in Jordan.

Apple acquires PRSS digital magazine platform.

Remote sensor technology expands knowledge of Angkor and the Khmer Empire.

Late Links

3,900 year old suit of bone armor found in Siberia.

More super-large dinosaurs discovered this week. The Rukwatitan bisepultus was discovered in Tanzania, 

Egypt's mammal extinctions tracked over 6,000 years of art.

The legends of the No Man's Land between the trenches of the Great War/World War One.

New fortress on Zealand in Denmark looks to have been the launch point for viking attacks on England.

Digital mapping uncovers 17 newly discovered monuments and one 1.5 kilometer "superhenge."

"With Folded Hands"

The National Science Foundation is working with the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, and NASA to develop robots to work with and aid people in myriad ways.

Come and see the methane lakes of Titan. 

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an ancient galaxy, one that existed seven hundred years after the Big Bang.

A fire raining comet exploded over Egypt twenty-eight million years ago, back in the Oligocene.