Monthly Archives: July 2010

Jul 22 2010

King Tut’s DNA is Western European

Despite the refusal of the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, to release any DNA results which might indicate the racial ancestry of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, the leaked results reveal that King Tut’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match with Western European Y chromosomes.

The DNA test results were inadvertently revealed on a Discovery Channel TV documentary filmed with Hawass’s permission — but it seems as if the Egyptian failed to spot the giveaway part of the documentary which revealed the test results.

Jul 19 2010

Inflatable Pub

275x250.jpg An inflatable version of the traditional-looking English pub has gone on sale for people to install in their garden.

The blow up boozer, which measures 15m by 7.5m and is 8m tall, includes details such as a tiled roof, brick stone wall and two chimney pots.

Jul 19 2010

Could “Blue Holes” Offer Clues to Extraterrestrials?

In the Bahamas’ submerged inland caverns, or “blue holes,” a thin layer of fresh water separates oxygen from salt water. This creates a submerged, oxygen-free environment that could resemble underground water pockets on Mars or the seas of Europa.

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Jul 19 2010

Photographing the Elements

Wikipedia user alchemist-hp is on a quest to take beautiful color photographs of every naturally occurring element. Pictured above is bismuth. At the link, you can view his German-language clickable periodic table of images.

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