" A new, improved sequencing of ancient human relative genomes reveals that Homo sapiens didn't only have sex with Neanderthals and a little-understood line of humans called Denisovans. A fourth, mystery lineage of humans was in the mix, too. As reported by the news arm of the journal Nature, new genetic evidence suggests that several hominids — human relatives closer than humans' current living cousin, the chimpanzee — interbred more than 30,000 years ago. This group of kissing cousins included an unknown human ancestor not yet revealed by the ancient DNA record." Here we go. The mystery continues. I've always said that the human family tree actually resembles a gnarled angry bush. So, we have...

The video above compares highly detailed amateur photos of Comet Ison to the blurry and edited "cotton ball" images presented to the public by NASA. By all logic, NASA should be able to produce images of equal or better quality, due to seemingly unlimited budget for highly advanced equipment and technology. Herein lies the question: Why is NASA so inept? Are they on vacation, embezzlers, slackers, pranksters, Keebler Elves ? The owner of the video left the following comment on his : "I am thinking that "Public Facing" space endeavors are a necessary evil for them. Perhaps they have more important black projects to tend to. I will be doing a NASA...

" CANON CITY, Colo. - A six year old boy is suspended from school in Canon City for kissing a classmate on the cheek His mother says it's a crush and the two children like each other. But the school is calling it something else; sexual harassment. First grader, Hunter Yelton, told us he loves...

"Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) introduced a resolution this week in the House of Representatives urging President Barack Obama to declassify 28 pages of a joint House and Senate Intelligence Committee report that includes information concerning foreign governments'...

" Jay Rockefeller (D WVA) has attached a cyber-security amendment (attached below) to the NDAA 2014 bill in Congress to mandate that precautions be taken to protect America’s cyber infrastructure and private entities. Those...

Yes, the American Legislative Exchange Council have set a number of legislative goals in time for 2014 and among them is a new law to penalize homeowners who install their own solar panels. Why on earth would anybody support this? It's beyond me....

I was reading rt.com earlier and they had this story about Obama taking a selfie at Nelson Mandela's funeral and they had this picture up as the headline. Then later on today I saw these pictures on a different site an it seemed like they were from the same event. Looks to me like the POTUS was having a pretty good ole time. Politics aside, it just...

I was just thinking about life here on Earth and it's origins, Evolution and extinction. A rather interesting thought accoured to me. I thought I'd share it. As far as I know there have been several "ELE" Extinction Level events on Earth. Ok, maybe not Extinction Level events but several times in Earth's history of massive dies offs....

So...We finally find a bill that passes easily with bi-partisan support through Congress. Unfortunately it re-authorizes the Fed to bailout banks that gamble on swaps and derivatives... And it...

Corvus brachyrhynchos *Just filmed in 2011, this video demonstrates just how astoundingly smart these birds are " The Crow and the Pitcher A thirsty Crow found a Pitcher with some water in it, but so little was there that, try as she might, she could not reach it with her beak, and it seemed as though she would die of thirst within sight of the remedy....

While the man credited with inventing this "mental disorder", US American psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, died in 2009, the didnt appear until 2012. . "Fortunately, the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NEK, President: Otfried Höffe) critically commented on the use of the ADHD drug...

"Its heat may increase the rate of ice loss from one of the continent’s major ice streams It wasn’t what they were looking for but that only made the discovery all the more exciting." Or maybe is already increasing the rate of loss. What price...

They aren't even pretending anymore. This is what the symbol says to me: "IN YOUR FACE, PLANET EARTH! We rule you like a giant vampire-squid-o-pus, our tentacles wrapped around your throat, squeezing the lifeblood of all information from you, suction...

This is an observation more than anything, and i obviously do not have any solid proof. However In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing number of new members who, given the length of time they have been here, have an incredible amount of posts (500+ within a month of signing up). Many of these seem to be...