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Swaziland healers charged for skull-and-bone theft
Police in Swaziland say they have arrested three traditional healers for allegedly desecrating graves to retrieve human skulls and bones for healing rituals.
Read more...The Influence of The Wild One
One film influenced Hollywood, Fashion and Music.
Read more...Translating Stories of Life Forms Etched in Stone
In 1909, Charles Walcott, a paleontologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, discovered one of the greatest and most famous fossil troves high in the Canadian Rockies on Burgess Pass in British Columbia. The slabs of Burgess Shale that Walcott excavated contained the earliest known examples at the time of many major animal groups in the fossil record, in rocks that were about 505 ...
Read more...Dog brains in a spin
For the first time, scientists have shown that selective breeding of domestic dogs is not only dramatically changing the way animals look but is also driving major changes in the canine brain.
Read more...The Greatest Films
The fact that Hollywood has gone sequel-mad is well-covered territory by now. So long as it delivers decently at the box office, a movie will have a sequel and it will be announced instantly after a movie's release, if not before.
Read more...John Scalzi - Does Your Favorite Sci-fi Movie Do Right by Its Female Characters?
Have you ever heard of the Bechdel test? It's a test, popularized by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, that asks three questions of movies:1. Are there at least two women characters in the film?2. Who talk to each other?3. About something other...
Read more...Translating the Stories of Life Forms Etched in Stone
A once-worrisome gap in the fossil record preceding the Cambrian has ignited intense interest among geologists and paleontologists.
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