The Proto-Indo-European Creation Myth

The bizarre history and fiery end of Berlin’s iconic abandoned amusement park

Messing with telemarketers

An audio illusion

Faster and stronger NASA movement. In other words the trip to Mars is must shorter now..."Test results indicate that the RF resonant cavity thruster design, which is unique as an electric propulsion device, is producing a force that is not attributable to any classical electromagnetic phenomenon and therefore is potentially demonstrating an interaction with the quantum vacuum virtual plasma." more inside

Three thousand years ago came lifeforms with different genes and 2 1/2 the skull capacities available to us. Did they leave? Or what?

Elephant ancestors in Mexico were found by living Indians there. "The gomphothere remains were dubbed El Fin del Mundo – Spanish for The End of the World" – because of its remote beauty still worked back then...

Renaissance-Era Drawings Reveal Early Ideas About Evolution.

Brian the Mentally Ill Bonobo, and How He Healed: It took a troop of apes, and a psychiatrist, and a little Paxil.

Erotica Written By An Alien Pretending Not To Be Horrified By The Human Body. Erotica Written By Someone With An Appropriate Sense of Privacy.

Chimpanzees Are Better at Strategic Reasoning Than Humans Are.

Reviving the art of Filipino tribal tattoos. [Via]

Truppe Fledermaus & The Carnival at the End of the World. 100 Views of a Drowning World by Kahn & Selesnick.

You're funny. No, YOU'RE funny! Too much cute. Baby Dad Laugh

MetaFilter's Downfall.

To think, or not to think, that is the question. Atheism says G-D is not. What about thinking? Is mental existence real, or is it too a not? Absolute science promises only relativity instead. More or less. more inside

H.R. Ginger falls away from us, but his work remains truly unusual even after our loss. more inside

Remove the CD47 Don't Eat Me coating off cancer cells in order to kill those cells. Stanford University researcher Dr. Weissman saves mice from tumors. That's his experiment. People already live a lot longer than mice, so they can wait and suffer longer... more inside

Tour of North America to come from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, end of July for Philly and next day NYC! Truly Australia has arrived!

High CO2 levels during the Eocene put Antarctic temperatures into a place of warmth that likens it to California. And more. The sea around it was 22 degrees Celsius (72 F), like the Florida coast is today... more inside