Social Studies for Kids
The Daily Grail - Science, Magick, Myth and History
"Did the 'Manu', of whom the Indian saga tells, bring it with them from another star - as an all-round foodstuff?"
The Erich von Daniken adventure park, "which presents the unexplained and yet very real mysteries of the world".
A clay disc from 1700BC, with a spiral of untranslated symbols.
Man attempting to set up a gimmicky tourist egg-search is stopped by careless endangered species laws. "It is prohibited to kill, hurt or catch animals of the Storsjoe monster species."
Mancala, Senet and beyond.
"Mr Lancelyn Green was found in his bed, surrounded by cuddly toys and a [gin] bottle, after a wooden spoon was used to tighten the shoelace around his neck."
"The pajama-clad skeleton of a Japanese man has been found in a vacant apartment building." - very Murakami.
Charity text-message Buddha-statue hunt on the streets of London, starting next month. "Discover weird statues, strange inscriptions and abandoned underground stations..."
Rongo Rongo, The Phaistos Disk, and others.
"When Dr. Thomas Rheinesius, a great physician from Saxony, decided to study Catharina's case, she seemed to stop vomiting frogs."
Basically: if you consider the film in terms of some made-up time travel theories (which weren't detailed in the film), then the plot makes boring sense in terms of those theories. Feh. Good to read a plotline, though.
"Time capsules usually are lost due to thievery, secrecy or poor planning."
"Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin that broadcast streams of numbers, words, or phonetic sounds. It is publicly not known with certainty where their signals originate or what purpose they serve."
A pleasantly unreadable solid-object font made from the spheres, cones and cylinders of revolved letters.
"Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement."
"Cultivating 'Walsby's square archaeon' in the lab has been a holy grail for microbiologists studying salt-loving (halophilic) bacteria."
Local cultural references to Homo floresiensis, which stole food and mimicked speech, according to legend, and may have been alive as recently as the 19th century.
"An estimated 1,000 to 1,500 Humboldt jumbo flying squid - typically found off the coast of Mexico - have washed up on southwest Washington beaches in the past few days."