Tag: Ancient

The strange thing about COBOL is not simply that it still exists. Old technologies survive everywhere. The stranger fact is ...

In the British Museum’s Mesopotamian collection sits a palm-sized rectangle of baked clay, catalogued as UET V 81. It is ...

Fewer than 100 mature Wollemi pines grow in the wild. Their exact location is a state secret, withheld from maps ...

Part the First: Functional Art from the Enigmatic Daunians.  William Morris famously wrote, “Have nothing in your houses that you ...

“When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re ...

After one full year the grim news on the science front – all fronts really – this Coffee Break is ...

Part the First: We Live in Pluto’s Republic.  With apologies to the shade of Walt Disney, this was bound to ...

Part the First: CDC Finally “Decides” that Vaccines Cause Autism.  In news that will surprise absolute nobody, while pleasing some ...

QUESTION: Marty, is it true that Thomas Jefferson had a large Roman and Greek collection of coins? Also, will you ...

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