An incredibly exciting find in Turkey rewrites everything we thought we knew about the earliest human civilizations. via Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History – Newsweek.com. In particular, this paragraph brought a wondering smile: Schmidt's thesis is simple and bold: it was the urge to worship that brought mankind together in the very first urban [...]

Egyptophiles will enjoy this article. Genetics and archeology team up to explore how and why this “boy king” might have died. BBC News – ‘Malaria and weak bones’ may have killed Tutankhamun.

The following article was released on Reuters Health feed today, reviewing a very biased study about the interactions of herbal remedies and modern prescription drugs. Herbal remedies, heart drugs don’t mix: review | Reuters. Of course the study found that herbal remedies and prescription drugs “interact.” The breathtaking bias is however in the automatic assumption [...]

Finally, some good prospects for us getting free of our dependence on (dirty, polluting, foreign) oil: 30% Wind Power Feasible, New U.S. Study Finds | Worldwatch Institute. Sadly, this paragraph denotes some of the real reasons we’re not seeing more wind towers in our landscapes: States and local organizations, including environmental groups, have opposed large [...]

If you are currently taking antidepressants and believe they work for you, you’re not going to like this at all. In fact, recent revelations publsihed by the New England Journal of Medicine seem to reveal that your belief in your antidepressant may well be the only reason it works for you. Alternet.org covers the studies [...]

With the explosion of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, parents will be well-served by reading this article on the results of a new study about “Internet predators.” There were several points I found to be surprising. The article lead-in provided the first: Contrary to stereotype, most Internet sex offenders are not adults [...]