Who was here prior to Indians?
Who was here prior to Indians?
A couple of large boulders in Farmington Hills are carved with a number of symbols that appear to be hieroglyphics.
The writings are similar to the ancient writings of the Minoans and Phoenicians, who sailed the world well before Egypt became a power in the ancient world.
The Minoans lived on a Greek Island and had a well-developed civilization with indoor plumbing and beautiful art. Their civilization disappeared either because of an earthquake or volcanic eruption. They were a sea sailing civilization as were the Phoenicians.
GM exec: We need more new Hummers
GM exec: We need more new Hummers
With sales up, brand needs broader portfolio of products, says GM VP at Paris Hummer dealer.
General Motors Corp.’s Hummer brand needs to double its product lineup by adding two or three more models, the executive charged with GM’s product planning told reporters on Wednesday.
“Hummer needs some more products. It needs two or three more products to give it sufficient market coverage,” General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz told reporters at the opening of a Hummer dealership in Paris.
44th Known Mersenne Prime Found
44th Known Mersenne Prime Found
Lightning strikes twice. On September 4, 2006, in the same room just a few feet away from their last find, Dr. Curtis Cooper and Dr. Steven Boone’s CMSU team broke their own world record, discovering the 44th known Mersenne prime, 2^32,582,657-1.
The new prime at 9,808,358 digits is 650,000 digits larger than their previous record prime found last December.
However, the new prime falls short of the 10 million digits required for GIMPS to claim the Electronic Frontier Foundation $100,000 award.
New trees to reclaim Amazon lands
New trees to reclaim Amazon lands
A Brazilian state intends to make cattle ranchers reforest land which they have cleared for grazing.
The government of Acre in the Amazon has established a nursery growing seedlings of species such as mahogany which they will issue to ranchers.
Ranchers may be made to reforest up to 30% of their land.
Ancient Pregnant Reptile Fossil Discovered Under Pingpong Table
Ancient Pregnant Reptile Fossil Discovered Under Pingpong Table
Three new species of an ancient marine reptile, including a pregnant fossil, were recently discovered by University of Alberta paleontologists—under a pingpong table.
The ichthyosaur fossils were unearthed from the Loon River Formation in Canada’s Northwest Territories 25 years ago, then languished under the pingpong table in the undergraduate science lab until they were rediscovered by newly hired faculty member Michael Caldwell.
“It was pretty amazing to realize this valuable discovery had sat under a pingpong table for 25 years,” Caldwell said. “But I suppose that after 100 million years in the dirt, it’s all relative.”
One Sentence Stories
One Sentence is an experiment in brevity. Most of the best stories that we tell from our lives have one really, really good part that make the rest of the boring story worth it.
This is about that one line.
This is about telling the most interesting or poignant story possible in the least amount of words.
“For you? Really?” the man in the pharmacy said, surprised, when I asked him to pass me a pregnancy test.
Human stem cells help blinded rats: study
Human stem cells help blinded rats: study
Human embryonic stem cells can partly restore vision in blinded rats, and may offer a source of transplants for people with certain eye diseases, researchers at a U.S. company reported on Thursday.
The finding, published in the journal Cloning and Stem Cells, might offer a way to use stem cells that now exist in laboratories, the researchers said.
“We have developed a technology that we hope can be used to treat degenerative eye diseases such as macular degeneration,” said Dr. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, who led the study.