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When you think about ancient technology, how often does potting soil come to mind? Well, it should. The soil of the Amazon is generally poor, acidic, and leaches nutrients like a sieve. Growing food there is a nightmare—unless you happen upon, or go looking for, some of the intensely fertile, beautiful black gold put there…
You and I know he wasn’t actually the last person, but he didn’t know that. He had every reason to believe he was the only human left, and he knew what extinction meant. After all he’d seen several species that once inhabited his barren little island go extinct. On the Pacific Ocean’s Henderson Island lies a heap…
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 21 (AP) – The annual Christmas pageant given by the Fairbanks High School choir at the Ladd Air Force Base Hospital included a group of girls dressed in angel costumes. The girls were walking down the corridor when a setviceman patient was wheeled out of the operating room still feeling the effects…
In 1942, a forest ranger discovered a lake full of human bones high in the Himalayans. And when I say Roopkund Lake is full of human bones—the remains of around three hundred people rest in the lake water. The area is remote. Before a lake packed with dead folks was discovered, the only people who…
In 1963, a man in Derinkuyu, Turkey, couldn’t keep his chickens from disappearing. The chickens were kept in an apparently safe location; his basement. No wild animals, no place for the feathered beasts to hide, right? So where did they go? One day he entered the basement in time to see a fluffy feathered rear…