Del.icio.us op 17 mei 2009

  • One of science's most puzzling mysteries – the disappearance of the Neanderthals – may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert.

    The controversial suggestion follows publication of a study in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences about a Neanderthal jawbone apparently butchered by modern humans. Now the leader of the research team says he believes the flesh had been eaten by humans, while its teeth may have been used to make a necklace.

  • In November of 1944, a Jewish Hungarian poet known for mixing innovative and classical styles, was shot into a mass grave with his notebook of last poems in his coat pocket. One of 3,200 Hungarian Jews forced by fascist militia to march hundreds of miles in retreat from Tito’s advancing armies, Miklós Radnóti remained under that mound for eighteen months before he was unearthed and later identified by his wife. What she found in that notebook damp with his body fluids were his last poems, including love poems scribbled to her, Fanni, known to her friends as Fifi.
    (tags: poetry)
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    (tags: videos)
  • What happens when you round up all seven Goonies and put them in a room together? For scientific purposes, Empire did just that – and now you can see the emotional reunion of one of the most beloved casts of all time firsthand.
    (tags: memories)
  • Was there communication between the ancient Chinese and the early Celts?

    The discovery of European corpses dating back to the Bronze Age in western China suggests that there might have been.

    (tags: archeology)
  • The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror.
    (tags: iraq)