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Oldest Mummies in the World Explained
Behind this mask lies the well-preserved face of someone who died many thousands of years ago, in the coastal desert of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru. A new theory may explain why the locals there began mummifying their dead.
A number of human cultures developed a tradition of mummification. The Chinchorro people of South America were the first. Their mummies are between 7000 and 8000 years old, predating the earliest evidence of mummification in Egypt by about 4000 years.
Now Pablo Marquet of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and colleagues may have worked out why the ancient hunter-gatherers began to handle their dead this way. It may all be down to the environment.
Wasteland Sculptures
Gal Weinstein, based in Tel Aviv, does some really cool sculptures. Burning tires, mosaic explosions, sputtering chimneys- this stuff is hard to ignore. Some people feel that we’re closer to the apocalypse now then we ever have been, whether it’s brought on by our own means or otherwise. Weinstein’s work often illustrates a sparse, unforgiving wasteland full of smoke and red brick. Even the sculptures that depict elements of life are disconnected, removed. Farm plots are reduced to tiny, green squares. The closest we get to humans are rows of stoic Foosball figures. But somehow there’s still hope in the artist’s work, which holds color and intrigue.
GALLERY VIA: –BEAUTIFUL DECAY–
Missile Defense Agency Addicted to Conspiraporn!
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency warned its employees and contractors last week to stop using their government computers to surf the Internet for pornographic sites, according to the agency’s executive director. In a one-page memo, Executive Director John James Jr. wrote that in recent months government employees and contractors were detected ‘engaging in inappropriate use of the MDA network… Individuals identified as violating the rules face referral for ‘appropriate’ disciplinary action, he wrote. They put ‘their security clearances in jeopardy, and are subject to suspension and removal from federal service or MDA sponsored contracts.’ Agency spokesman Rick Lehner said in an e-mail that the memo was written in response to ‘a few people downloading material from some websites that were known to have had virus and malware issues.
VIA: –UNIQUE DAILY–
Playing Cards as Weapons
This fellow hopes to break a world record throwing playing cards with vegetable-slicing speed and accuracy. If you’d like to learn this useful skill, you might start by reading Ricky Jay’s 1977 classic book “Cards As Weapons.”
VIA: –BOING BOING–
CONSPIRAPORN! 