for anyone who missed this amazing story: a find like this is bound to cause controversy and there are already doubts being raised as to the authenticity of the claim that the remains uncovered in the UK last year are indeed the much despised english king richard III
another pretty convincing demo of the post-flash world; although it performs much better on chrome than firefox, maybe time to switch? (via ‘uwe’)
…”what amazed him most of all,” Peskov recorded, “was a transparent cellophane package. ‘Lord, what have they thought up—it is glass, but it crumples!'”…
utterly bizarre and fascinating story about a russian family discovered in the wilderness in the late 70’s who had not had contact with the outside world for 40 years 40 years
…though he steadfastly refused to believe that man had set foot on the moon, he adapted swiftly to the idea of satellites. The Lykovs had noticed them as early as the 1950s, when “the stars began to go quickly across the sky,” and Karp himself conceived a theory to explain this: “People have thought something up and are sending out fires that are very like stars.”…
…tThe Lykov children knew there were places called cities where humans lived crammed together in tall buildings. They had heard there were countries other than Russia. But such concepts were no more than abstractions to them…