Reich's plan is to find ancient DNA from every culture known to archaeology in the world. Ultimately, he hopes to build a genetic atlas of humanity over the past 50…
Plans included locks built by Gustave Eiffel, famed builder of the Eiffel Tower. Despite big dreams and massive effort, French attempts ultimately fell apart because of the deaths of over 22,000 people from disease and construction accidents, financial woes and internal corruption. The United States...
Humor dominates in the ads released so far. Four old ladies go on a joy ride withWeatherTech, while Eugene Levy's eyebrows fly off and buzz around after he eats someLittle Caesars. Sloths have a case of the Mondays in an ad forCoors Light. A man's tongue starts dancing...
and was so big that its remains were originally hard to recognize as snake bones. "We'd had some of them for years," paleontologist Jonathan Bloch from the University of Florida toldSmithsonian Magazine. "My only excuse for not recognizing them is that I've picked up snake vertebrae before...
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You'll also see a big celebration of kids on the fringe, those outsiders who were outsiders for a good reason -- intelligent, complex characters struggling to deal with the horrors of high school. In "Freaks and Geeks," the character of Neil Schweiber (Samm Levine) delivers a line about...
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“For all they knew, we were things that could move very slowly, with very little strength,” mused Frank Drake, “like sloths or worms.” Of all the pictures which were sent on a grand tour of the planets and which are now traveling through interstellar space, barely 35 are of recogni...
Folks thinkowls are wisefor the same reason they think people who wear glasses are smart: unusually big eyes are taken as a sign of intelligence. And the eyes of owls aren't only unusually big; they are undeniably huge, taking up so much room in these birds' skulls that they can't ev...