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Ice Bowl 50

from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Ice Bowl, 50 years later: An oral history of the Packers-Cowboys 1967 NFL Championship Game ON DEC. 31, 1967, THE PACKERS EDGED THE COWBOYS, 21-17, IN A GAME FOR THE AGES. HERE’S THE STORY OF THE ICE BOWL AS TOLD BY THOSE WHO PLAYED IN IT AND WITNESSED IT. […]

Mass Grave Re-writes History

from Smithsonian Magazine This Mass Grave Discovery Could Alter Roman History There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that a mass grave discovered in the north of England is a gladiator cemetery. But the most compelling clue is an identical site in Turkey, almost 2,000 miles away. [ click to continue reading at Smithsonian ]

The Engineer’s Grill

Columbus’ Shark

from The Daily Star Ancient LIVING shark born in 1500s is world’s OLDEST vertebrate and could be 512 years old A SHARK believed to be the oldest living vertebrate has been discovered in the North Atlantic Ocean. By Anthony Blair INSTAGRAM/@JUNIEL85 / BIZARRE: An ancient living shark has been discovered that’s believed to be up to […]

Adopt Horses Now, Please

from The New York Times The Hard Truth About the West’s Wild Horse Problem By CHRIS STEWART Lesley Barnes We have a wild horse problem — and it’s having a devastating impact on these majestic animals that so many of us love. I grew up on a farm in Idaho. No one has to show […]

Miraicraft

from WIRED HOW A DORM ROOM MINECRAFT SCAM BROUGHT DOWN THE INTERNET by GARRETT M. GRAFF THE MOST DRAMATIC cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet—powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security cameras and wireless routers—that […]

Merry Christmas

Blood Sport for Bones

from The LA Times Archaeology as blood sport: How the discovery of an ancient mastodon ignited debate over humans’ arrival in North America By THOMAS CURWEN “Oh my God,” Richard Cerutti said to himself. He bent down to pick up a sharp, splintered bone fragment. Its thickness and weight told him that it belonged to […]

Mystery Blob Threatens New England

from Science Alert A Mysterious Blob of Hot Rock Is Building Up Under America’s Northeast Something is rising from the depths. by PETER DOCKRILL Hot rock in the mantle rising toward the surface (Vadim Levin/Rutgers University-New Brunswick A vast mass of hot rock is welling up underneath Vermont and extending into other subterranean regions below […]

Sharon Springs

from Logo Sharon Springs, NY: The Gayest Little Town You’ve Never Heard Of “One of the greatest things, the thing that has saved Sharon Springs is the LGBT community.” by Bryan van Gorder I grew up in the rural, rolling farmland of Upstate New York. Occasionally—often on the way to the Baseball Hall of Fame […]