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Fairy Chimneys: The stone spires in Turkey that form 'the world's most unusual high-rise...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoTurkey's magical "fairy chimneys" in Cappadocia were carved out of an ancient volcanic landscape...
The Assassin's Creed gun designed to fire square bullets at Turks
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIt throws one large or 16 musket balls at every discharge with great force. "Even if Puckle had...
We mapped a lost branch of the Nile River – which may be the key to a longstanding mystery of the...
The Conversation· 18 hours agoThe Nile was at the heart of ancient Egyptian civilisation, and the location of so many pyramids some distance away from the river has until now not been fully explained. In a new study published ...
Josh Gates takes a break from ‘Expedition Unknown’ to appear at the Genesee
Chicago Tribune· 11 hours agoJosh Gates has a job most of us only dream about — traveling to exotic locales around the world...
This time, we take it from no one: Why opening the High Frontier of space can be different (op-ed)
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe coming settlement of the High Frontier doesn’t have to be a repeat of the violent conquests and...
Where Have All the Babies Gone? Falling Birthrates All Over the World Alarm Leaders, Businessmen,...
Naked Capitalism· 3 days agoOn the baby bust/falling birthrates freakout.
Fanon the Universalist | Susan Neiman
New York Review of Books· 10 hours agoDecolonization, said Frantz Fanon, began a new chapter of history. It’s common enough for the politically engaged to magnify their engagement, if only to...
Even if this weekend's solar storm destroyed civilization, Bitcoin would survive
CryptoSlate· 5 days agoScientists have studied these flares for 150 years, focusing on what’s considered the largest such...