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
10-14-14
Scientists race to sample cave ice before it’s too late.
Source: The Independent
10-20-14
New research indicates the boy king mostly likely died as a result of genetic impairments which weakened his body.
Source: The Washington Post
10-27-14
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
10-23-14
Charles Freeman believes relic venerated as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth dates from 14th century and was used as a prop.
Source: NYT
10-28-14
Ultranationalist cyberactivists have menaced the village of Sarufutsu over a memorial to Korean laborers who died building an airfield there.
Source: AP
10-24-14
"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
10-24-14
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says most of Smith's wives were between 20 and 40 years old.
Source: EurekAlert
10-23-14
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.
10-27-14
by HNN Staff
The word quarantine -- French for forty days -- dates to the middle ages.
Source: NYT
10-26-14
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
10-21-14
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
10-20-14
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
10-23-14
Who was Jack the Ripper?
Source: The Washington Post
10-16-14
Last month, Congress unanimously authorized a site for the memorial.
Source: JSTOR Daily
10-20-14
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
10-22-14
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
10-22-14 (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
10-22-14
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
10-22-14
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
10-20-14
The payments flowed through a legal loophole that has given the U.S. Justice Department leverage to persuade Nazi suspects to leave.
