Monthly Archives: June 2008

I’ve been enjoying books about bizarre ‘scientific’ beliefs lately. Blame it on Indiana Jones and his ‘creatures that travel between spaces’. For fiction I’m reading Raising Atlantis, in which Atlantis is buried under the Antarctic Ice Shelves, and archaeologists have … Continue reading →

I just learned an interesting tidbit from The Straight Dope. When French Fries got turned into Freedom Fries a few years ago by people who were mad at France for not being supportive of our war efforts, I was pretty … Continue reading →

There’s an article in Nature this week about the Pacific Island Nation of Kiribati, which is slowly succumbing to sea level rise, and will eventually be inundated, leaving it’s population (currently just under 100,000 people) homeless. This is reminiscent of … Continue reading →

There’s an article on National Geographic today which has me befuddled in a myriad of ways. Prehistoric Hair Suggests 1st Eskimos Came From Asia My first problem comes with the title. The working hypothesis in North American Anthropology, based on … Continue reading →