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A few months ago, after the last mass shooting, I saw the estimated intervals between mass shootings in the US in a Mother Jones article. I counted ahead from that date and made a note on my calendar that according to their estimates there would be another by December 4th… Mother Jone’s article Inside The … Read more
SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When originally launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America’s Great Lakes, and to this day she remains the largest to have sunk there. The Edmund Fitzgerald had … Read more
Thanks to the internet, the wisdom of Presidential candidate Ben Carson has been preserved and will heretofore save archaeologists, and egyptologists in particular, the hassle of having to wonder about what those crazy pyramids in Egypt were for. As Carson told the 1998 graduating class of Andrews University: “My own personal theory is that Joseph … Read more
Koko – The gorilla almost any practicing anthropologist alive today feels a kinship with received kittens for her 44th birthday. Watch this great video:
#ColumbusDay #IndigenousPeoplesDay #October12th Bartolomé de las Casas, who served with Columbus but later became an advocate for Indigineous rights described how Columbus and his men treated these people in The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account: “They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in … Read more
From Thursday October 1st to Wednesday October 7th any institution of higher learning may post an academic teaching position for free. From October 8th-31st any institution may pay a flat fee of $100 and post as many individual ads for positions open in their system. NOTE: This does not apply to any institution position that … Read more
Nicholas Reeves from the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona got to give the interview quote ever archaeologist wants to give in their life: “To be honest, I feel numb,” Nicholas Reeves, the archaeologist who first proposed the existence of the hidden rooms, said in his Luxor hotel room, after inspecting the tomb. “This … Read more
Totally true and hard science here folks. This weekend Mars will be as big as Your own Full Moon and Uranus (depending on your viewing distance). As for Mars being viewed from earth and appearing as big as the moon, it is never, ever, going to happen.
A big honkin’ gate recently excavated in Israel by Aren Maeir, of Bar-Ilan University in Israelmay very likely marks the entrance to Gath. The home of Goliath of David vs Goliath fame described in the bible. At it’s time occupation it might have been the largest city in the region. More from LiveScience: