Astronomy Babylon

from The Washington Post Clay tablets reveal Babylonians discovered astronomical geometry 1,400 years before Europeans By Joel Achenbach Text A. (Trustees of the British Museum/Mathieu Ossendrijver) The medieval mathematicians of Oxford, toiling in torchlight in a...

Virginia Madsen to AMERICAN GOTHIC

from The Hollywood Reporter Virginia Madsen to Co-Star in CBS’ ‘American Gothic’ (Exclusive) Courtesy of CBS ‘Fargo’ and ‘The Good Wife’ alum Matt Shakman will direct the pilot for the summer 2016 drama. CBS’ American...

The First Eyeteur

from The New York Post This filmmaker replaced his eyeball with a camera By Andrea Morabito Rob Spence lost eyesight in right eye from a shotgun accident when he was nine. Photo: Brian Zak As a kid, Toronto filmmaker Rob Spence played with a “Six Million Dollar Man”...

Once Upon A Long, Long Time Ago….

from BBC News Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say Researchers found Beauty and the Beast was about 4,000 years old / PA Fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast can be traced back thousands of years, according to researchers at universities in...

The Origins of War

from The Guardian Stone-age massacre offers earliest evidence of human warfare Researchers say remains of 27 murdered tribespeople in Kenya prove attacks were normal part of hunter-gatherer relations  by Maev Kennedy Part of a man’s skeleton found lying in the lagoon....