by | Dec 26, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The Telegraph Secret pagan basilica in Rome emerges from the shadows after 2,000 years An underground chamber that was a place of worship for a mysterious cult 2,000 years ago has opened to the public for the first time By Nick Squires, Rome Stucco figures ...
by | Dec 25, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The Daily Beast How Ancient Rome Killed Democracy by Bridey Heing Public Domain It didn’t take all that much to tip a great civilization into the shackles of empire. Rome holds a special place in the popular imagination. Cast as a culture steeped in myth, with...
by | Dec 24, 2015 | Weirdness
from The Independent Lettuce is ‘three times worse than bacon’ for emissions and vegetarian diets could be bad for environment Common vegetables ‘require more resources per calorie’ than many people realise, according to a team of scientists at the prestigious...
by | Dec 23, 2015 | Weirdness
from The New Yorker Can CRISPR Avoid the Monsanto Problem? BY MICHAEL SPECTER Because it makes manipulating genes so much easier, CRISPR offers researchers the ability to rapidly accelerate studies of many types of illness, including cancers, autism,...
by | Dec 22, 2015 | Weirdness
from TIME Magazine FLOAT HOPES: The Strange New Science of Floating STORY BY MANDY OAKLANDER They started late one night, the tremors that shook Michael Harding’s whole body when he lay down to sleep. “A bit weird,” thought Harding, then a 23-year-old Australian...
