Gracilization: evidence of humans domesticating themselves

""gracilization" -- that is, "a worldwide thinning of the human skull" starting around 40,000 years ago. Why was it that, millenniums before the agricultural revolution, our ancestors became progressively lighter-boned and smaller? A crucial clue: The fossil record and...

Your World Not Ready For Me

Some people say "there's a reason for everything" and I would tend to agree but .. Why is the truth so often ignored? Is it the messenger? Because the messenger 'lacks credibility' or some human recognized qualifications? For many years I thought of myself as a visitor on...

Portraits and Writings Reveal Michelangelo as Ugly and Unclean

"The series of extremely rare modern portraits and writings, presented on the show in Florence, showed that one of the greatest artists of western civilization, Michelangelo Buonarroti, was an ugly and unclean man."

'Father' Tim Russert: Irish Catholicism and American Journalism

Another good piece of journalism from Poynter Institute's Roy Peter Clark.  When asked if he thinks first any of the writing tools he introduced before he write.  His answer, obviously is no. "I turn to a tool when I need it.  I use the tools, they don't use...

Looking for Life in All the Wrong Places

Japanese astronomers are looking for life in space. Let's hope they don't find King Ghidorah."Japan's biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for an unprecedented quest to find out whether there is life in outer space.The project, led by Japanese astronomers, will...