This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Scientific American
October 14, 2014
Scientists race to sample cave ice before it’s too late.
Source: The Independent
October 20, 2014
New research indicates the boy king mostly likely died as a result of genetic impairments which weakened his body.
Source: The Washington Post
October 27, 2014
Scientists who conducted a genetic study published last week found that these ancient people had significant contact with Native American populations hundreds of years before the first Westerners reached the island in 1722.
Source: The Guardian
October 23, 2014
Charles Freeman believes relic venerated as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth dates from 14th century and was used as a prop.
Source: NYT
October 28, 2014
Ultranationalist cyberactivists have menaced the village of Sarufutsu over a memorial to Korean laborers who died building an airfield there.
Source: AP
October 24, 2014
"It was a brave undertaking, mixing with fascists, pretending to be someone you weren't. It was dangerous work that could have gone wrong."
Source: AP
October 24, 2014
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says most of Smith's wives were between 20 and 40 years old.
Source: EurekAlert
October 23, 2014
The study, published in the British Dental Journal, examined 303 skulls from a Romano-British burial ground in Poundbury, Dorset for evidence of dental disease.
October 27, 2014
by HNN Staff
The word quarantine -- French for forty days -- dates to the middle ages.
Source: NYT
October 26, 2014
The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of “minor war crimes.”
Source: NYT
October 21, 2014
With anti-Semitism having become more prominent again across Europe, something quite different is growing in a huge, translucent building at the center of a vanished neighborhood in Warsaw.
Source: The Washington Post
October 20, 2014
According to the report, a prosecutor who confronted Lewinsky “exercised poor judgment and made mistakes in his analysis, planning and execution of the approach.”
Source: Huffington Post
October 23, 2014
Who was Jack the Ripper?
Source: The Washington Post
October 16, 2014
Last month, Congress unanimously authorized a site for the memorial.
Source: JSTOR Daily
October 20, 2014
The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, is opening in wide release later this fall, bringing the tragic story of Alan Turing to the movies.
Source: NYT
October 22, 2014
And the genome, extracted from a fossil thighbone found in Siberia, added strong support to a provocative hypothesis: Early humans interbred with Neanderthals.
Source: Fast Company & Inc
October 22, 2014 (accessed)
Trois-Rivieres history professor Laurent Turcot sees the potential for video games to introduce students and others to how people lived in the past.
Source: archaeologynewsnetwork
October 22, 2014
A profound new discovery by palaeontologist, Flinders University Professor John Long, reveals how the intimate act of sexual intercourse first evolved in our deep distant ancestors.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
October 22, 2014
From Johnson's 'Daisy Girl' ad to Reagan's Soviet bear, politicians have been trying to scare voters to the polls for decades. Now, Ebola is handing candidates an arresting talking point.
Source: AP
October 20, 2014
The payments flowed through a legal loophole that has given the U.S. Justice Department leverage to persuade Nazi suspects to leave.
