The Root Of All Evil
By Heordreedenn: There is a thought experiment – at least I hope it’s a thought experiment – concerning the best way to boil a frog. Apparently if you just chuck the hapless amphibian into a pan of boiling water it realises immediately that all is not well and jumps out at once. But if you put it in a pan of cold water, and heat it slowly, it never notices what is happening, or at least if…
Ancient Scots Invented World’s First Calendar
By Heordreedenn: The widely-promoted idea that our Northern European ancestors were ignorant barbarian savages whilst “civilization” was founded in the Middle East took another devastating knock on Monday 15th July when a team of archaeologists from Birmingham University revealed they had found a 10,000-year-old sophisticated lunar calendar in a field in Scotland. In Warren Field, by Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire, the scientists found 12 carefully-sited pits, mimicking the phases of the moon and aligned with…