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Science & Tech News tagged with history

South Pole Explorers to Drill for Sir Ernest Shackleton's Whisky
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, interesting, history, discovery )

Marty
- 5 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Explorers are planning to recover a rare batch of whisky lost during explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to the South Pole a century ago.
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Glencoe Massacre Orders Displayed
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, history, discovery, interesting )

Marty
- 5 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A 300-year-old document which led to one of the most infamous episodes in Scottish history is to go on display.
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How the Bushmen of Africa Can Save Us From the Global Water Crisis (Video)
Science & Tech  (tags: climate, environment, humans, interesting, history, research, science, technology, world, study )

Daphna
- 11 days ago - treehugger.com
I started in on a book about a month ago titled Heart of Dryness, which discusses how the bushmen of the Kalahari can teach us what we need to know about how to live in dry climates, something we're all increasingly finding ourselves in as we drill oursel
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Fossilized Skull of Giant Sea Monster Found Off South Coast of England
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, history, news, scientists, skull, sea monster )

Horselove
- 24 days ago - ca.news.yahoo.com
A local council says the fossilized skull of a giant sea monster has been found off the southern coast of England.
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Mexican Church Devoured By Lava
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, design, environment, humans, interesting, investigation, world, habitat, history )

Daphna
- 25 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
When the people of the small Mexican town of Parícutin heard rumbling and felt the earth shake on February 20, 1943, they thought of an earthquake. When they witnessed a mountain growing out of their cornfields, plus fissures in the earth that emitted su
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Tiny Dinosaur, Fruitadens Haagarorum, Believed to Be North America's Smallest
Science & Tech  (tags: dinosaur, smallest, world, two pounds, discovery, ancient, archaeology, history, interesting )

Lone
- 31 days ago - nydailynews.com
It weighed less than two pounds, but lived along with the most powerful beasts on the planet.
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Fungus Feasted Off World's Worst Extinction
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Daphna
- 46 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
In the wake of the world's worst mass extinction 250 million years ago, life on Earth was nearly nonexistent. All across the supercontinent Pangea, once lush forests lay in ruins, the corpses of trees poking like matchsticks into the poisoned air.
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Unusual and Marvelous Maps
Science & Tech  (tags: world, study, mapa, interesting, humans, history, discovery, design )

Daphna
- 47 days ago - darkroastedblend.com
I've always been fond of maps, from those antique ones showing sea serpents and hideous monsters devouring ships in the vast expanses of the ocean, to those showing what the world looked like in the distant, and not so distant, past. Maps have, of course,
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10 Most Incredible Images of Magnetic Storms
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Daphna
- 48 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
The Sun is the centre of our universe and most solar activity has an effect on the Earth. Geomagnetic storms are very visible effects of this solar activity that can cause power outages and disrupt satellites. No doubt, solar activity requires more resear
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Angkor - Photo Gallery
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, design, environment, humans, interesting, research, investigation, history )

Daphna
- 49 days ago - ngm.nationalgeographic.com
The bas-reliefs also reveal trouble in paradise. Interspersed with visions of earthly harmony and sublime enlightenment are scenes of war. In one bas-relief, spear-bearing warriors from the neighboring kingdom of Champa are packed stem to stern in a boat
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Evolution: Before 'Lucy', There Was 'Ardi'
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, evolution, humans, history, science, study )

Liji
- 50 days ago - ndtv.com
The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.
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41 Stunning Aged, Ancient & Natural Foot Paths
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, world, interesting, humans, history, environment, design, concept )

Daphna
- 50 days ago - webecoist.com
Whether man-made or formed by nature, the world is filled with footpaths over otherwise impassable areas. Not the type of bridge that we would drive over, but the kind we come across when blazing a trail by foot. Some of these bridges are geological pheno
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Why People Hoard Stuff
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, research, investigation, interesting, humans, history, medicine )

Daphna
- 54 days ago - news.yahoo.com
People who compulsively acquire and hoard clutter to the extent that it impairs their daily activities are labeled "compulsive hoarders." The condition is classed as a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), present in 30 to 40 percent of individu
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NASA Data: Greenland, Antarctic Ice Melt Worsening
Science & Tech  (tags: climate-change, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, energy, environment, forests, globalwarming, green, greenhousegases, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, oceans, politics, pollution, protection, research, science )

Wolfweeps
- 57 days ago - newsminer.com
WASHINGTON -- New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode. British scientists for the first time calculated change
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The Giant Hand Buried in the Atacama Desert
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, discovery, environment, history, humans, interesting, investigation, news, research, scientists, study, world )

Daphna
- 58 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
It looks like the extremity of a giant man, buried by a monumental sandstorm. In the wasteland of Chile's Atacama Desert, 75 km to the south of the city of Antofagasta, a strange and unexpected sight confronts the eye: four fingers, a thumb and part of a
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