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Baseball Offseason Debate: Who Is The Best Left-Handed Player?

Baseball Offseason Debate: Who Is The Best Left-Handed Player?

Nov 10 2014 | comment(s)

Though the World Series is over, baseball never really ends in the modern era. There are MVP announcements, free agency and then the winter meetings. Before we know it, it will be February and pitchers and catchers reporting for spring training in Florida and Arizona.
Villagers, Pitchforks And The Profane Nature Of Science

Villagers, Pitchforks And The Profane Nature Of Science

Nov 04 2014 | comment(s)

In 1752 in the British city of Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin did something that horrified the superstitious people of the day - he captured a lightning storm in a jar with nothing but a piece of string controlled by some dry silk.
Is Truthy Truthful Or Truthiness?

Is Truthy Truthful Or Truthiness?

Nov 03 2014 | comment(s)

Imagine a site where the lead developer supported the Discovery Institute, the Tea Party, the Mitt Romney campaign, Greenpeace, Joe Mercola, Just Label It, and various other political activist and anti-science groups.

Would you believe it was really neutral about science?

Perhaps. It depends on how many other people are involved in the project, but it would certainly bring a higher level of scrutiny.
The Ghosts Of The First Neolithic People In A Paleo World

The Ghosts Of The First Neolithic People In A Paleo World

Oct 31 2014 | comment(s)

If you lived in Hilazon Tachtit, near  the Hilazon river of Israel 12,000 years ago, you might have borne witness to a world first; the earliest known religious ceremony.
Anubis And The 8 Million Mummy Army

Anubis And The 8 Million Mummy Army

Oct 29 2014 | comment(s)

Underneath the ancient royal buried ground of Saqqara in the Egyptian desert lies something even creepier than mummies that might come back to life - mummies that might come back to life and be adorable.

The Sacred Animal Necropolis, as it was called after being discovered by archaeologists last century, was dedicated to Anubis - that is the one with the head of a dog/jackal - and is believed to contain up to 8 million animals, most of them small dogs. It's hard to be sure because the animals were not mummified the way royal members were so they have just basically decomposed into heaps of DNA. Most were placed there in the Late Dynastic (747-332 B.C.) and Ptolemaic (332-30 B.C.) Periods.