Stone Age Herbalist
After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die.
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The 'Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice, other Inhuman and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013' is a piece of Indian legislation aimed at tackling the...
In AD 256 a unit of Roman miners led a counterattack against their Sasanian besiegers at the city of Dura-Europos. What happened next has been recorded in minute detail by archae...
How do you legislate against a belief in witchcraft? If you genuinely believe your neighbour is trying to kill you with black magic, do you have the right to use violence against t...
To reiterate - oxygen is being produced at the bottom of the Pacific by polymetallic nodules, in a mechanism completely separate from sunlight and photosynthesis. https://t.co/Fg23...
Thread of some unusual mixed peoples from around the world ๐งต https://t.co/cnHgpPbUDY
The last person tried under a British Witchcraft Act was in 1944, but not for the reasons you might expect https://t.co/z4a5JODrAE
Ten times Herodotus was proved right. Despite being called a liar, the Father of History was right more often than not, even if archaeology and science has taken a while to catch...
Since Bully XL dogs are on the TL, we should look at some of the dogs that are banned in the UK, and why? Dogs are not equal in their capacities, and nothing shows this better th...
Returning to the Pirahรฃ - Round two of Everett's book 'Don't Sleep There Are Snakes' Some curious, interesting and bizarre snapshots of life with the Pirahรฃ. If you want the full...
The Evolution Of The Pointed Stick A thread concerning humanity's greatest invention - a long stick with a sharp bit on the end. https://t.co/UxNuzqRmZE
A thread of excerpts from Daniel Everett's book 'Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes' about his time with the Amazonian Pirahรฃs. I don't think there's another people quite as unusual a...
Today we're thinking about archaeological forgeries, fakes and hoaxes. Some do it for the money, to prove their theory correct or to boost their reputation, for others it seems com...