The site “InformationIsBeautiful.net” has created a lovely info-graphic listing and shredding various silly ideas associated with 2012, the Mayan calendar, galactic arrangements and whatnot. You can see it here, and certainly should. It lists lots of ridiculous ideas that I didn’t know existed, even beyond the obvious errors in astronomical calculations and ethnography (Mayans and [...]

It has always been assumed that people lived on, fished from and generally used the Isles of Shoals well before Europeans arrived, but hard evidence has been lacking. Now an archaeology program has found what this report from Cornell, which ran the program, says are the first prehistoric stone tools discovered there.
The report says the [...]