This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Belfast Telegraph
10-20-15
Due to drought, the ruins of a 16th century church recently surfaced from the receding reservoir water in Mexico.
Source: New Historian
10-22-15
A new study shows the wealthy in the Middle Ages were being poisoned by the lead used to make their fancy cups and plates.
Source: The Root
10-22-15
Samuel Burris was a free black man who got caught trying to help slaves escape in 1847.
Source: Wired
10-21-15
The group says its models, created with the Autodesk software Maya, can be used for online visualizations, Oculus-style walkthroughs, or even 3-D printing miniature replicas.
Source: PsyBlog
10-21-15
by Dr. Jeremy Dean
Neuroscientists have gained insights into how gratitude operates from an unexpected source.
Source: NYT
10-21-15
The Museum of War Crime Evidence by Japanese Army Unit 731, which opened on Aug. 15, is bolder in intent than the older, adjacent museum that it incorporates and replaces and, according to museum officials, has attracted large crowds of visitors.
Source: New Historian
10-21-15
By performing a 3-D stability analysis on the ‘Lee Harvey Oswald in the Backyard Photo’, the Dartmouth University scientists claim they have proven its legitimacy.
Source: NYT
10-21-15
Israeli historians and opposition politicians joined Palestinians in denouncing the Israeli prime minister for saying the grand mufti of Jerusalem gave Hitler the idea of annihilating Jews.
Source: NYT
10-21-15
A proposal that would put a bell atop Stone Mountain in Georgia, where a carving of Confederate heroes dominates, has drawn opposition from whites and blacks.
Source: WaPo
10-14-15
White House chief technology officer Megan Smith on Wednesday launched a nationwide search for the original "Declaration of Sentiments," the document signed in July 1848 at the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y..
Source: Washington Examiner
10-19-15
"We realized after we went off the air the maps were not factually accurate and we regret using them. Clearly, that set of maps was wrong."
Source: Penn State News
10-15-15
Climate variability is one of the major forces in the rise and fall of agrarian states in Mexico and Peru, according to a team of researchers looking at both climate and archaeological records.
Source: NYT
10-19-15
A couple in Yaphank, N.Y., is suing a community organization, saying the housing practices are discriminatory and violate the Fair Housing Act.
Source: Yahoo News
10-19-15
The University of Virginia announced that Jefferson's chemistry lab was discovered during renovations of the school’s famous Rotunda.
Source: Huffington Post
10-19-15
Genetic material suggests the shroud may have been created in India.
Source: Stars and Stripes
10-17-15
Hundreds of South Korean scholars have declared they are boycotting the writing of state-issued history textbooks out of concern that that they will teach distorted views on the country's recent history.
Source: NYT
10-18-15
President Obama plans to bequeath his successor — or perhaps his successor’s successor — a new-and-improved Air Force One for the smartphone age.
Source: Fusion
10-16-15
The FBI maintains a national genetic database with samples from convicts and arrestees, but this was the most public example of cops turning to private genetic databases to find a suspect.
Source: Vox
12-16-15
Palestinian rioters set a fire on the compound containing Joseph's Tomb — which is venerated by Jews as a holy site — in the West Bank city of Nablus
Source: The Washington Post
10-15-15
A set of 47 human teeth found in China have been dated as at least 80,000 years old -- perhaps even older.
