Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo

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“The world’s oldest example of cave art” exclaims some of the headlines and associated media clips. So what is this about? Since the 1990s, caves in the remote and rugged mountains of East Kalimantan, an Indonesian province of Borneo, have been known to contain prehistoric paintings, drawings, and other imagery, including thousands of depictions of … Read more

Is the Interstellar Object Oumuamua an alien spacecraft?

The bait was offered and various sections of the media rapidly pounced on Oumuamua and devoured it with relish. We are awash with stories such as this … Express: Mysterious interstellar object Oumuamua ‘SENT BY ALIENS’ to survey galaxy – Harvard .. and also the slightly more factually correct variations … Sky News: Cigar-shaped object could be alien spacecraft, … Read more

Cancer Survey – Many people believe quackery works

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In the US the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has conducted their second Cancer poll and has just released the results. Side note: The word Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. In other words, ASCO are the subject matter experts. They have a keen interest … Read more

Weekly dose of Weird Religious News

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As you scan this week’s weird religious news items it becomes rather clear that the looming midterms has the right-wing religious kicking their rhetoric into overdrive. The essence of it all is that all democrats are supposedly evil incarnate and only voting GOP will bring order back to the universe. You can paint me completely … Read more