links for 2007-03-19
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Talking Points Memo drove the U.S. attorrneys story, proof that Web writers with input from devoted readers can reshape journalism.
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A short self-scoring quiz to see how well you’ve been paying critical attention to current events over the last 4 years.
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Chris Kelly’s excellent summary of the military service credentials of many of the Iraq War’s leading cheerleaders. Heh.
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The Goseck circle in Germany represents the remains of the world’s oldest solar observatory, dating back 7,000 years to about 4900BC. It was discovered in August 2003.
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The discovery of carvings on a snake-shaped rock along with 70,000-year-old spearheads in Botswana has dramatically pushed back the earliest evidence for ritual behavior, or what could be called religion.
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New research in the ancient Botai village of Krasnyi Yar seems to have turned up some ancient corrals — and pushed proof of horse domestication further back in time.
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32 flint tools discovered in a cliff side during low tide near Pakefield point to humans living in the vicinity of its tidal flats and rivers around 700,000 years ago.
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A new analysis of human remains first discovered in 1967 suggests that they are in fact much older than previously believed, by nearly 35,000 years.
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