Some potentially good news about cannabis compounds is wafting from the Salk Institute labs in San Diego. Researchers discovered that the main psychoactive compound in marijuana—tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)—and a few other active compounds remove amyloid beta proteins from lab-grown neurons.… Continue Reading
The novelist Neil Gaiman has been fascinated by Norse mythology since he was a boy. When he was about 7, he read Jack Kirby’s comic “The Mighty Thor,” about the hammer-wielding Nordic god. He moved on to Roger Lancelyn Green’s… Continue Reading
A World Heritage site in central Mali that features elaborate pre-Islamic mud houses is in danger of deteriorating because it cannot be protected adequately in the face of insecurity, UNESCO said on Wednesday. The Great Mosque in Djenne, Mali… Continue Reading
In the fall of 2003, a heavy rainstorm swept through the ruins of Teotihuacán, the pyramid-studded, pre-Aztec metropolis 30 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City. Dig sites sloshed over with water; a torrent of mud and debris coursed past rows… Continue Reading
I have a confession. One of my bucket lists is to see some of the most amazing libraries in the world. On that list is the Clementinum library. The Clementinum library, was first opened in 1722 as part of the Jesuit… Continue Reading
The second expedition of underwater archaeological surveys at Fourni of Ikaria, conducted by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities has been completed. The aim of the survey is to located, record, map and investigate the ancient and medieval shipwrecks in the… Continue Reading
A cross-party group of MPs has launched a fresh bid to return the so-called Elgin Marbles to Greece on the 200th anniversary of the British Government’s decision to buy them — a move that campaigners said could help the UK… Continue Reading
Archaeologist Carenza Lewis of the University of Lincoln excavated 2,000 one-meter-square pits in 55 rural settlements occupied before and after the plague across eastern Britain, looking for the concentration of pottery shards, broken bits of everyday pottery. “Under every village,… Continue Reading
Thanks to the Melbourne Museum, you can relive the destruction of Pompeii from your smart phone or computer. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided… Continue Reading
The video attached is of the Attica Dionysian Festival 2016 that took place June 6, 2016 e.v.. The festival is a celebration of the cultivation of the vines. The Labrys Community is one who still worships the Greek gods. Other… Continue Reading