Population Control Advocate Killed After Holding Hostages at Discovery Channel-9/2 "must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants" Gunman's Environmental Grudges Well Known Before Discovery Channel Hostage Standoff-9/2 Was influenced by the Goracle and the book Ishmael. His inner gorilla was awakened. Editor Left Frantically Spins Discovery Shooter's Radical Environmentalism - Will MSM Follow Suit?-9/2 Sterilize the Unfit Says British Professor-9/2 Investors Head for Bunkers, Driving Up 'Shelter Shares' and survivalist stocks-9/2 U.S. files new suit on Ariz. immigration issue-9/1 Obama Labor Dept Shill Praises Hugo Chavez, Tells Students ‘Republicans Hate Latinos’-9/2 Rape Probe Against WikiLeaks Founder Reopened-9/1 China's gang crackdown nets 278,000 criminal cases-9/1 Problem bank list climbs to 829-9/1 Obama Administration Reverses Course, Forbids Sale of 850,000 Antique Rifles-9/2 Whole Foods' John Mackey in USA Today on Health Care, the FTC, Unions, & More-9/1 John Cusack Calls for 'Satanic Death' of Fox News, GOP Leaders-9/1 N.Y. man who plunged 39 stories saved by N.J. man’s rosary beads and Dodge Charger-9/2 |
Some dig in, others flee coast as Earl nears US-9/2 Dems may push lame-duck energy bill-9/2 U.N. Climate Panel Looking at 'Second-Best Scenarios'-9/1 Climate Change Lies are Exposed-8/31 Failure at Cancun climate summit would herald global catastrophe: 3.5°!-8/31 Try and stay cool in Cancun my friends. Editor They'll be dancing at another party at the White House-9/2 In redecorating the Oval Office, Barack Obama has chosen a carpet with slogans round the edge-9/2
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Missing in Action-Mexican Freedom Fighters-9/2 Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon -- Mexico is a beautiful country with many valuable resources. It's oil rich and has many sites of interest to tourists and archeologists. This gorgeous nation is being overrun by vicious drug cartels that are replicating the Taliban's methods of torture. . . . So where are the Mexicans brave enough to fight for the return of their country to peace and prosperity? Apparently, most of them are in California and Arizona, flying the Mexican flag, trashing the Stars and Stripes, and calling for a revolution in America. What chutzpah! ... The New Old World Order-9/2 National Review Online, by Victor Davis Hanson-- The post–Cold War New World Order is rapidly breaking apart. Nations are returning to the ancient passions, rivalries, and differences of past centuries. Take Europe. The decades-old vision of a united pan-continental Europe without borders is dissolving. The cradle-to-grave welfare dream proved too expensive for Europe’s shrinking and aging population. ...
Seventy percent of Americans know they've been conned-8/30 Examiner, by Hugh Hewitt
-- Minimum estimate of Saturday's crowd on the Mall: 300,000 Maximum estimate: One million people.
Meaning of the crowd: An enormous upheaval in the emotions of average Americans is coursing through the country, with a certain significance for November's elections. It will have a lasting, profound impact on America's political direction.
Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin provided an occasion to glimpse this undeniable phenomenon. Of course, the interpretations of what the phenomenon is and what its consequences will be will keep the chattering class busy for weeks, if not years.
Some on the left are trying, with increasing desperation, to use old and new media to brand this surge in public participation in politics as sinister, even though it was preceded by a surge from the left of people and energy into President Obama's campaign.
The new tools of communication and the ease of movement have unleashed a tumultuous era of politics driven by the demand that elites not attempt to speak for, or condescend to, average citizens. They will not quietly or passively be lectured to, or insulted by, the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg or any anchor on any network, any columnist in any paper, or any blogger on any Web site.
The people on the Mall and the millions more who watched the gathering with satisfaction rather than fear are quite simply sick of the left, and of its vast sneer toward the traditions, values and, yes, faith of the American middle class.
The American Enterprise Institute's Arthur Brooks has quite accurately described America as a 70/30 nation, with the 70 percent presently massively underrepresented in the federal government, the Manhattan-Beltway media elite and academia.
The 70 percent is appalled by the placebo economics practiced by the president and the Congress over the past two years, shocked by its profligacy with the wealth of the republic, and sickened by the looting of the next generation's opportunities.
The 70 percent did not want Obamacare, but it has been thrust upon them.
The 70 percent did not want federal judges to declare "game over" in the complex discussion of what marriage is and means.
The 70 percent want a fence on the border that works, and do not want their concern over unregulated immigration dismissed as nativisim.
The 70 percent are not ashamed of their belief in God, deeply resent being labeled bigots because they view ground zero as land that ought not to be exploited for "messaging" of any sort by any group, and are enraged by the scorn which they encounter everywhere in media except Fox News and talk radio.
The 70 percent believe that the federal government is remote and clueless, and that the Constitution's principles of enumerated and limited powers and the sovereignty of the states are vibrant, important core values to the republic.
The 70 percent think Iran is in the grip of an evil, theocratic fascism, and that Israel is our true friend and ally deserving of our full-throated support.
... In Toledo, the 'Glass City,' New Label: Made in China-8/30 WSJ, by James T Areddy-- The Toledo Museum of Art's $30 million Glass Pavilion is a symbol of America's "Glass City," and reflects the legacy of its local glassmakers. A smudge on the image: The pavilion glass was imported from China, the new global powerhouse of the glass industry. No one in the U.S. had the capability to satisfy cutting-edge architectural specifications for the curving pavilion, even though the 2006 job involved techniques advanced decades ago by Toledo inventors: bending and laminating glass. The pavilion features 360 thick glass panels, each up to 13.5 feet tall, eight feet wide and weighing over 1,300 pounds. For years, the West focused on the threat from China's low-tech exporters like clothing and furniture makers. Glass represents how an even more potent challenge has arrived: sophisticated, capital-intensive businesses that boast high-tech expertise. In industries where global demand has shifted to China, the pattern is repeated, from steel to locomotives and turbines to specialized glassworks. Chinese companies that have gorged on growth in the domestic market have managed in just a few years to close the gap on decades of technological innovation in the industrialized West. Shenzhen, China-based Avic Sanxin Co. got the Toledo Glass Pavilion job because of its willingness to invest in technology necessary for complex glass, including a $500,000 piece of equipment, says deputy general manager Bruce Tsin, who wears jeans and reads architectural magazines in English. U.S. companies, he says, are too cautious, preferring standardized processes and "easy money." But China also has secured important technology from foreign glassmakers eager for a foothold in the world's biggest market. Foreign companies often play a balancing act in China, trying to protect selected manufacturing secrets and products. ...
Around the World w/ Norman Rockwell on Pan Am-7/25 New at Reverse Spins, by William C. House III Afterlife-8/30 Coast to Coast Recap, Everything dies - or so we've been told. Dr. Robert Lanza joined George Knapp in the first half of the show to talk about how death is not the final end most of us imagine. Building his argument on quantum science that shows particles' behavior is dependent upon the observer, and the theory that multiverses could exist in which every probability is played out, he suggested that space & time are simply observational tools of the mind. "Although our bodies are destined to self-destruct, the alive or me feeling is just a 20-watt fountain of energy operating in the brain," and this energy never dies, he said. Because life has a non-linear dimensionality, without consciousness, space and time are nothing, and "when you die..it's a reboot that leads to all the potentialities," including the past or future or any point of view, he continued. In this state, a person would still retain their sense of identity, but they wouldn't realize they were dead or rebooted—anymore that we would in our current condition, he commented. Is the Sun Emitting a Mystery Particle?-9/1 Discovery, by Ian O'Neill-- When probing the deepest reaches of the Cosmos or magnifying our understanding of the quantum world, a whole host of mysteries present themselves. This is to be expected when pushing our knowledge of the Universe to the limit. But what if a well-known -- and apparently constant -- characteristic of matter starts behaving mysteriously? This is exactly what has been noticed in recent years; the decay rates of radioactive elements are changing. This is especially mysterious as we are talking about elements with "constant" decay rates -- these values aren't supposed to change. School textbooks teach us this from an early age. This is the conclusion that researchers from Stanford and Purdue University have arrived at, but the only explanation they have is even weirder than the phenomenon itself: The sun might be emitting a previously unknown particle that is meddling with the decay rates of matter. Or, at the very least, we are seeing some new physics. ... |
Beaches in Italy are now training dogs to become lifeguards. That should work as long as someone throws a tennis ball at you while you’re drowning. Fallon Friendly Persuasion-9/2 Mark Steyn, “I think it is kids’ preference to pair up and have that one best friend. As adults – teachers and counselors – we try to encourage them not to do that.” Thus, Christine Laycob, “director of counseling” at Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School in Missouri, speaking to The New York Times the other day about why “best friends” are a bad thing. “Parents sometimes say Johnny needs that one special friend. We say he doesn’t need a best friend.” By “we”, she means the expert opinion of “educators”. Granted that “educators” seem to have minimal interest in education, and that therefore it would be unreasonable to expect them to regard, say, American students’ under-performance in everything from math to music as a priority, one is still impressed by their ability to conjure hitherto unknown crises to obsess over. The tone of the Times piece is faintly creepy – not least in its acceptance of the totalitarian proposition that it’s appropriate for “experts” to re-engineer one of the most building blocks of our humanity: the right to choose our friends. If the report reads like something out of The Stepford Kindergarten PTA, it is no more than the logical endpoint of the educational establishment’s preference for collectivized mediocrity over individual achievement: A child should no longer have best friends, and close friends, and people he’s happy to hang around with, and folks he doesn’t much care for. Instead, he should just be friends with the collective, with the commune, all the same. We conservatives have been wasting our energy arguing the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. The statists have moved on, and are now demanding equality of basic human relationships, and starting in nursery school. Oh, come on, you scoff. Why make a big deal about one itsy-bitsy New York Times education story? Well, because much of the contemporary scene owes its origins to silly little fads among “educators” that seemed too laughable to credit only the day before yesterday. I see the Times piece references those literary best friends of yore, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. But Tom and Huck’s boyhood is all but incomprehensible to today’s children. Unlike its fellow Missouri educational establishment in St Louis, I don’t believe the grade school in St Petersburg had a “director of counseling”, because, if it had, she would have diagnosed Tom with ADHD, pumped him full of Ritalin, and the story would have been over before he’d been told to whitewash the fence. The suppression of boyhood would have been thought absurd half-a-century back. Yet the “educators” pulled it off, effortlessly. Why not try something even more ambitious? ... Obama tells the U.N. how great he is-8/31 Washington Examiner,
President Obama's administration recently submitted a report to the United Nations on human rights in America. The 29-page report shows the nation badly flawed but fortunate to have a Nobel Prize winner as its leader. The report is billed as "a partial snapshot of the current human rights situation in the United States, including some of the areas where problems persist in our society." Among the nation's shortcomings listed in the report: The Clean Development Mechanism delivers the greatest green scam of all-8/30 Telegraph, Even the UN and the EU are wising up to the greenhouse gas scam, "the biggest environmental scandal in history", says Christopher Booker.-- It is now six months since I reported on what even environmentalists are calling "the biggest environmental scandal in history". Indeed this is a scam so glaringly bizarre that even the UN and the EU have belatedly announced that they are thinking of taking steps to stop it. The essence of the scam is that a handful of Chinese and Indian firms are deliberately producing large quantities of an incredibly powerful "greenhouse gas" which we in the West – including UK taxpayers – then pay them billions of dollars to destroy. The key to this scam, designed to curb global warming, is a scheme known as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), set up under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and administered by the UN. It enables firms and governments in the developed world to buy "credits" which allow them to continue emitting greenhouse gases. These are sold to them, through well-rewarded brokers, from firms in developing countries that can show they have nominally reduced their emissions. Easily the largest and most lucrative component in the CDM market is a peculiar racket centred on the manufacture of CFCs, chlorofluorocarbons, classified under Kyoto as greenhouse gases vastly more damaging than carbon dioxide. The way the racket works is that Chinese and Indian firms are permitted to carry on producing a refrigerant gas known as HCF-22 until 2030. But a by-product of this process is HCF-23, which is supposed to be 11,700 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2. By destroying the HCF-23, the firms can claim Certified Emission Reduction credits worth billions of dollars when sold to the West (while much of the useful HCF-22 is sold onto the international black market)....
• 'India, US need to partner to balance China in Indian Ocean'-9/2 Entangled Atoms-9/1 Bohemian (Sonoma County), by Caroline Osborn-- Dean Radin's research suggests that all separation is illusory-- By "I don't care too much what people think," says Dean Radin, Ph.D., senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. "I'm much more interested in tracking something which I think is meaningful and which I think eventually will become more and more meaningful. That's what science is all about. We're driven by curiosity." Nestled in the rolling golden hills on the outskirts of Petaluma, the Institute of Noetic Sciences' (IONS) enclave of wooden buildings almost disappears among the trees. Within one of those buildings, Radin conducts scientific experiments that question whether such seemingly fantastical abilities as telepathy, psychokinesis and precognition could actually be real. Radin works in the field of parapsychology, or research on psychic phenomena, a phrase often shortened to "psi." He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in psychology, both from the University of Illinois. In addition to his position as senior scientist at IONS, he is an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University. His two published books, The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds, explain his research and ideas to those without access to scientific journals. Radin has spoken at Stanford, Cambridge, Harvard and Princeton, among other universities. The New York Times Magazine wrote a profile on him. Oprah interviewed him. The public is listening. But what exactly is Radin saying? Wouldn't we all like to have paranormal powers of perception? Is this anything more than Age of Enlightenment fervor to justify secret fantasies with rationalized, scientific research? Radin would argue that there is absolutely more to it than that, and he has the laboratory data and physical theory to back up his claims. ... Remembrances of Lives Past-8/30 NY Times, by Lisa Miller-- In one of his past lives, Dr. Paul DeBell believes, he was a caveman. The gray-haired Cornell-trained psychiatrist has a gentle, serious manner, and his appearance, together with the generic shrink décor of his office — leather couch, granite-topped coffee table — makes this pronouncement seem particularly jarring. In that earlier incarnation, “I was going along, going along, going along, and I got eaten,” said Dr. DeBell, who has a private practice on the Upper East Side where he specializes in hypnotizing those hoping to retrieve memories of past lives. Dr. DeBell likes to reflect on how previous lives can alter one’s sense of self. He, for example, is more than a psychiatrist in 21st-century Manhattan; he believes he is an eternal soul who also inhabited the body of a Tibetan monk and a conscientious German who refused to betray his Jewish neighbors in the Holocaust. Belief in reincarnation, he said, “allows you to experience history as yours. It gives you a different sense of what it means to be human.” Peter Bostock, a retired language teacher from Winnipeg, Manitoba, says that in the early 1880s he managed a large estate — possibly Chatsworth — in Derbyshire, England. In a twist that would make Jane Austen blush, he thinks he was in love with the soul of his current wife, Jo-Anne, then embodied as a cook in the estate’s kitchen. Married to someone else, Mr. Bostock could not act on his feelings. He says he and his wife share the kind “of attraction and recognition that a soul makes when it encounters the familiar.” In that spirit, the couple traveled last month to Rhinebeck, N.Y., where they and more than 200 others paid $355 each to attend a weekend seminar run by one of America’s pre-eminent proselytizers on the subject of reincarnation, Dr. Brian Weiss. ...
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The secret war against the New Age-9/2 secretsun.blogspot.com,by Chris Knowles-- DISCLAIMER: The following is an historical analysis of a broad-based and amorphous movement that is generally misunderstood. The point here is understand how belief systems arise and how the Establishment responds to them. As the concept of belief itself is up for grabs in the West, I believe that it's worth looking at the last major challenge the religious and scientific establishments faced and exactly how they handled that challenge.--
American Metal Plates-8/27 Philip Coppens, For decades, metal sheets with writing have been recovered from various archaeological sites in South America. Until recently, all were labelled “frauds”, but slowly, archaeologists are beginning to change their opinion. The ancient Americans, it seems, knew perfectly well how to work with metal. -- When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Peru and began the conquest of the Inca Empire, they saw silver and gold everywhere. Alas, they were only interested in its monetary, not artistic value. They therefore melted the artefacts down to ingots for easier transport to Europe, where it never arrived; the ships were sunk by pirates before they reached Spain. From the little that is left in museums like the Gold Museum of Lima, it is clear that the Inca were masters in metallurgy. Nevertheless, the technical proficiency in metallurgy of this civilisation remains one of the more controversial topics in archaeology. The topic became even more popular and controversial when the likes of Erich von Däniken focused their attention on a collection of metal plates and various related artefacts that had been gathered by an eccentric Italian priest, Father Carlos Crespi, in Cuenca, Ecuador. Von Däniken wrote up his visit to Crespi in “Gold of the Gods”, adding that the collection possessed certain common traits: “All the pyramid engravings have four things in common: a sun, but more frequently several suns, is depicted above the pyramid; snakes are always flying next to or over the pyramid; animals of various kinds are always present.” Such consistency between artefacts collated over a number of years and from different sources, suggested a common origin. When Crespi questioned the people that brought him these artefacts, they told him that they had found them in subterranean cave systems in the jungles. Crespi therefore made sure that the extra-ordinary collection remained intact, using the courtyard of the church Maria Auxiliadora as his museum. Alas, many of the artefacts were destroyed in a fire on July 20, 1962, an act of arson, possibly engineered to destroy the collection. Alas, little remains of the Crespi collection, which was placed in various locations following the priest’s demise in January 1980. It is said that there remain active attempts to reopen a museum that has all of the collection that still remains. Today, the collection is commonly labelled a fraud. It is true that Crespi was first a missionary, and not an archaeologist. When poor people brought him these plates, as well as other artefacts, which the local people knew he collected, he made sure they were rewarded for their efforts. He knew several local families were poor but that pride prevented them from asking for money – unless it was as payment for something. And hence, more and more metal plates found their way to the priest. Some, Crespi was sure, were fakes – and they were often the crudest. But amongst the Crespi Collection were vast quantities of precious metals, like gold and silver. Those artefacts were unlikely to be frauds. Especially when we know that the collection was estimated to be worth at least one million dollar – for more than Crespi was able to pay the locals. Richard Wingate visited the collection of 70,000 pieces that had been compiled in three rooms in the late 1970s and described it as follows: “Rolls of intricately figured sheet metal stood haphazardly piled around the shed. The priest explained that it had been torn off the interior walls of long abandoned, vine-choked buildings in the inaccessible eastern jungle. The Indian artifact hunters bring this wallpaper in three different metals: gold, a metallurgically unique, untarnished silver, and an unknown alloy with the appearance of shiny aluminum. Every square inch of the peculiar sheet metal is decorated with intricate designs, some of them depicting long-forgotten ceremonial occasions and some of them humorous and cartoon like. The rolls come in heights that vary, for the most part, from eight to twelve feet, and they are often fifteen to thirty feet long. These lengths are composed of many individual four-foot sheets which have been artfully riveted together.” ...
In search of an identity-8/29 The Hindu, by Ananth Krishnan-- In new China's cities, millions of young people are turning to Buddhism to make sense of their county's rapid transformation while in the far west, minority communities are searching for ways to preserve their culture against the pressures of development.-- Every summer, young Chinese from the country's far corners gather at the foothills of the Taibai Mountains in China's east. The gathering includes doctors, lawyers, college graduates and, last summer, even a couple of nuclear scientists; in short, the kind of white-collar crowd one might usually find at a Starbucks coffee-shop in downtown Shanghai. But these young Chinese weren't at Taibai on holiday; they were there in search of answers. The cool Taibai Mountains are home to the Tiantong monastery, a few hours' drive from the eastern port city of Ningbo. Tiantong Si is a 1,700-year-old centre of Buddhist learning, and it has influenced the thought and culture of much of China's east. Last summer, Jiang Julang, a graduate from Beijing's elite Peking University who is in his mid-twenties, was an unlikely addition to the summer crowd. Jiang was born in the eastern city of Hangzhou, now a sprawling industrial centre and emerging IT hub, and once another thriving centre of Buddhism in eastern China. Like most Chinese of his generation, Jiang had a public school education; going to the government-run kindergarten around the corner from his home, to the primary school down the road and, finally, to the country's most prestigious institution in its capital. Like most of his generation, he was brought up on a strict diet of Marxism and science. His parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, who all used to frequent Tiantong Si, were Buddhists. For Jiang, however, their beliefs were “backward superstition.” Or, so he used to think. “In China, we are brought up to not believe in faith,” he tells me one evening, when we meet at the lush, sprawling campus of Peking University in Beijing's northern Wudaokou university district, a bubble of calm and quiet in the chaos and dust of Beijing. “As a person, we all want to know where we came from, and where we are going. You can be taught perfect logic. But, at some point, you will have questions that logic cannot answer.” Those questions brought him to Tiantong. As Jiang headed east to Tiantong last summer, lessons were also underway in Gyalthang, a small mountain town in China's far south-western Yunnan province, which borders Tibet. Young Tibetan monks, sitting cross-legged in front of small, wooden desks, pored over textbooks, written in the elegant and intricate Tibetan script. Most of them came from nearby villages. They had had little opportunity to learn to read or write their traditional script, let alone learn of their faith. But in this small two-story house in Gyalthang's old city, under the watchful eyes of Lobsang Khedup, a monk from Qinghai province, they were given a chance to study the scriptures. ...
Nasca Lines may be giant map of underground water sources-8/30 ANDINA, American researcher David Johnson has advanced a theory that Nasca Lines may be related to water. He thinks that the geoglyphs may be a giant map of the underground water sources traced on the land. The Nasca Lines are located in the Peruvian desert, about 200 miles south of Lima. The assortment of perfectly-straight lines lies in an area measuring 37 miles long and 1-mile wide. The Nasca plain is one of the driest places on Earth, getting less than one inch of rain a year. So, when Johnson started his research in 1995, he became aware of the scarcity of water in the region and the effect that this had on agricultural production and the quality of life. While looking for sources of water, he noticed that ancient aqueducts, called puquios, seemed to be connected with some of the lines. The expert said that a high percentage of potable water of the mountain chain moves through underground filtrations and that the pre-Hispanic population knew perfectly the cartography of water. He said that lines like the ones in Nasca would be “a language to communicate where underground wells and aqueducts are located”. ... Greek Archaeologists Claim They Discovered Odysseus' Palace-8/25 NDE Howard Storm on the future of the U.S.-8/23 More on Howard Storm 1 , 2. Editor Dry weather reveals archaeological 'cropmarks' in fields-8/31 |
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The Lost City-8/27 Yale Alumni Mag., A discovery in the desert could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt. September/October 2010 by Heather Pringle Heather Pringle is a contributing editor at Archaeology magazine. For much of the twentieth century, Egyptologists shied away from explorations in the vast sand sea known as the Western Desert.-- An expanse of desolation the size of Texas, the desert seemed too harsh, too implacable, too unforgiving a place for an ancient civilization nurtured on the abundance of the Nile. In spring, a hot, stifling wind known as the Khamsin roars across the Western Desert, sweeping up walls of suffocating sand and dust; in summer, daytime heat sometimes pushes the mercury into the 130 degree–Fahrenheit range. The animals, what few there are, tend to be unfriendly. Scorpions lurk under the rocks, cobras bask in the early morning sun. Vipers lie buried under the sand. When Egyptologists finally began investigating the Western Desert, they gravitated first to the oases. But in 1992, a young American graduate student, John Coleman Darnell, and his wife and fellow graduate student, Deborah, decided to take a very different tack. The couple began trekking ancient desert roads and caravan tracks along what they called "the final frontier of Egyptology." Today, John Darnell, an Egyptologist in Yale's Near Eastern Languages and Civilization department, and his team have succeeded in doing what most Egyptologists merely dream of: discovering a lost pharaonic city of administrative buildings, military housing, small industries, and artisan workshops. Says Darnell, of a find that promises to rewrite a major chapter in ancient Egyptian history, "We were really shocked." Umm Mawagir, as the city is now known, flourished in the Western Desert from 1650 to 1550 BCE, nearly a millennium after the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. This was a dark, tumultuous period of Egyptian history. Entire villages lay abandoned in the Nile River Delta, victims, perhaps of an ancient epidemic. Taking advantage of the turmoil, Bedouin groups from Syria and Palestine edged westward under the leadership of wealthy merchants, gaining control of the delta. Meanwhile, far to the south, Sudan's powerful Kerma kingdom expanded into southern Egypt. In the wake of these incursions, Egypt's pharaohs presided over a diminished realm whose capital lay at Thebes, in present-day Luxor. For decades, Egyptologists thought the foreigners roamed the Western Desert at will, controlling the lucrative caravan trade. But the discovery of Umm Mawagir, in concert with finds from the more westerly Dakhla Oasis, says Darnell, reveals clearly how the Theban dynasty succeeded in extending its power and military might more than 100 miles into the hostile desert, building an entire city, and controlling a vital crossroads of trade routes. Umm Mawagir, says Darnell, is a testament to "the incredible organizational abilities of the Egyptians." ... The Golden Age Civilization in the Sahara Desert Ancient Egyptian Discoveries-8/25 Robert Bauval Experiments offer tantalizing clues as to why matter prevails in the universe-8/22 PhysOrg, A large collaboration of physicists working at the Fermilab Tevatron particle collider has discovered evidence of an explanation for the prevalence of matter over antimatter in the universe. They found that colliding protons in their experiment produced short-lived B meson particles that almost immediately broke down into debris that included slightly more matter than antimatter. The two types of matter annihilate each other, so most of the material coming from these sorts of decays would disappear, leaving an excess of regular matter behind. ... Should We Manipulate Our Dreams?-9/1 'Star Wars Uncut': The world remakes a classic-8/27 Can we grab electricity from muggy air?-8/27
Can Eating Vegetables Prevent Lung Cancer?-8/31 Catholic Surgeon Cures by Laying on of Hands?-8/31 Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds-8/30 Apples: The Miraculous Disease Fighting Fruit-8/28 Yale Study Shows Electrical Fields Influence Brain Activity-8/27 Your Hair Reveals Whether You're a Morning Person-8/26 Sloth and Gluttony Hard to Shake Even For the Healthy-8/25 Study: Tea brewed at home healthiest-8/24 The electric potato: How zapping a spud 'could make it a healthy food'-8/23 Dreams Make You Smarter, More Creative, Studies Suggest-8/20 An ancient Chinese medicine might ease side effects of cancer treatments-8/20 Meditation is proven to be the serene way to get smarter-8/19 51 Fantastic Uses for Baking Soda-8/17 |
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