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Man’s Earliest Architecture Plans

from The Independent Prehistoric rock carvings ‘were humanity’s earliest architectural plans’ Researchers say 14,000-year-old carvings by ‘Paleolithic Picasso’ depict a campsite built by early hunter-gatherers by Cahal Milmo | Chief Reporter | @cahalmilmo A reconstruction of the Moli del Salt campsite built by hunter-gatherers On a Spanish river bank 14,000 years ago, someone carved seven semi-circular shapes on a rock. […]

Lexi & The Sig Alph’s

from LittleThings Frat Brothers Brighten Hospital Room For Brave Little Girl by Barbara Diamond Twelve-year-old Lexi Brown has cancer, and she recently spent some time at the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA in California. Her hospital room faced one of the massive frat houses on UCLA’s fraternity row. To pass the time and have a little […]

Dorothy Must Die NYT #3 Woo-hoo!

from The New York Times [ click here to buy DOROTHY MUST DIE ]

Rodgers & Rodgers Hail Mary

To the Moon, Alexi!

from Yahoo! News Russia Is Planning To Build A Permanent Manned Base On The Moon by Rob Waugh Getty Russia’s space agency is planning to build a manned moon base – launching modules into space on six separate rockets. Russia plans to launch a lunar probe in 2024 which will scout possible locations – before […]

Trujillo On Jaco

from PASTE Robert Trujillo on Punk-Jazz Bassist Jaco Pastorius By Bill Milkowski It was six years ago that Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo began the long journey that has finally come to fruition with the recent release of JACO, his acclaimed documentary on the life and times of the hugely influential electric bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius, who redefined […]

Bloody Gutsy Oscar

from The Hollywood Reporter ‘The Revenant’ and ‘The Hateful Eight’: How Much Blood and Guts Will Oscar Voters Endure? by Stephen Galloway Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Leonardo DiCaprio’s epic (featuring a brutal, gory assault by a bear) and Quentin Tarantino’s latest are set to test audience’s appetites for filmmaking as violent as it is […]

“Decorated with two eyes, which are surrounded by cloud-and-thunder patterns”

from artnet Mysterious Ancient Board Game Discovered in 2,300-Year-Old Tomb in China by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso A group of archaeologists in China have unearthed pieces from a mysterious ancient board game that was last played around 1,500 years ago. A 14-face die made of animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces with numbers painted on them, and […]

Five extra-galactic unidentified radio signals…

from The Sunday Express Did scientists just pick up the first intelligent radio waves from a distant ALIEN planet? By JON AUSTIN CSIRO / The Parkes Observatory in Australia picked up the signals The “fast radio bursts” included one “double signal” never heard before and have left astronomers buzzing with excitement over the possibility of it being […]

All-female Fight Club in Berlin

from The Daily Mail Inside the all-FEMALE fight club: The secret Berlin group where women go topless to take part in no-holds-barred bouts that leave them bruised and bleeding By PHOEBE JACKSON-EDWARDS The women often fight topless, like male fighters would usually, with one combatant showing off bruises and marks from being raked by her opponents’ […]