Thursday, February 4, 2016

Archaeological News

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4,500-Year-Old Boat Found Near Pyramids It's probably a "funerary boat" that was intended as part of the offerings to the ov...

I Knew a Priest Who Used to Do Something Similar in the Confessional

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Instead of just hanging up every time “Sharon, your local Google specialist” calls, one person decided to create an artificial intelligence ...

Photo File Clean-Out: More Surf Buggies, Woody Edition

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Seriously, You Have to See It

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‘The Greatest Cat Painting Ever Made’ Curls Up With Portland
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Connecticut is Now a Leader in Racial Segregation

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UCONN: Scholastic House Of Leaders who are African American Researchers & Scholars

Dear Nobel Committee,

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Ferry passenger throws girl’s vuvuzela overboard, prompting a complaint to police

To Be Fair, the TSA Has an Annual Budget of Only 7.39 Billion

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Washington (CNN)The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that the acting administrator for the Transportation Security Administration...

12 Reasons Christians Don't Attend Sporting Events

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These Days, Who Isn't?

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Officials: Aggressive coyotes may be high on shrooms
Monday, February 1, 2016

Oh-Oh

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Clinton Ominously Tells Iowan Supporters To Mark Front Doors With Campaign Logo Before Sundown

Why Are We Just Hearing About This Now?

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RECIFE, Brazil — So many distraught mothers stream into the infant ward clutching babies with abnormally small heads that the receptionist s...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

This is Getting Monotonous

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Signe Anderson, original Jefferson Airplane singer, dies at 74.

I Used to Play Bass for Andromeda Smash-UP

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Andromeda smash-up: distant galaxy is rushing towards Earth at one million mph - with no hope of deviation

Oh, This Century Just Keeps Getting Better

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Atheist minister fighting United Church’s effort to fire her  She finds that God and Jesus are mere "myths" and yet objects whe...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

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Another Portion of My Generation's Music Concludes

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Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner dies at 74 I just saw him with the latest incarnation of his band on some execrable PBS fundraiser on Sa...
Friday, January 29, 2016

This Week's Stats

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Our most read posting: Lucien Aigner I'm actually delighted about that as few people read it the first time it was published and he r...

Syriac chant sung by an exiled Syriac Orthodox monk

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Max Hardberger

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Originally published on February 15, 2013 There was one evening, almost twenty years ago now, when the sun in the Leeward Islands had ju...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

There's One Born Every Minute

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After ducking the final Republican presidential debate heading into next week’s Iowa caucuses, GOP front-runner Donald Trump announced that ...