Graham Hancock (45 cents)

The only thing that is not top rate about www.grahamhancock.com is that sometimes you want to print out an article and you get a blank page. Or maybe it's just me. Maybe everyone else can print everything out.

I decided to make this website my homepage on Explorer (I use www.drudgereport.com on Firefox). Every day, they pull together interesting articles about archeology or ancient history. Just today, for example, they have articles (full articles, or at least links to full articles) on studies showing that prehistoric birds might have attacked early humans for food (a study done at Ohio State University); a study posted in Neuroscience Letters that concludes that there is no single part of the brain designed for communication with God (I had never even considered that possibility)(a University of Montreal study); a 2700 year old Saxon belt buckle, very rare, found by a treasure hunter with a metal detector outside of London and given to the Museum of London; a story of 10,000 year old sandals found in Oregon and to be shown in an upcoming National Geographic story on footwear; an article from Australia talking about the discovery of a fossil of a fish with lung capacity which appears to be about 400 million years old, suggesting that fish started to come onto land a long time ago; findings by a Spanish university that suggests that Mayan civilization began to decline when they discovered that there kings were not gods; 3000 year old tombs have been found in Jilin Province in China; the Vatican is not satisfied that the new form of developing stem cells, without killing embryos, is ethical; an article on the continuing debate about whether small skeletons found in Indonesia denote a different form of homenoid, a kind of hobbit; Japanese research that shows bacteria and microbes can be used to power very small machines; Neanderthals had aspects of creativity; and the ruins of Lebanon did not seem to be harmed by the recent war. And it is like that every day!