Month: August 2024
Ragnarok: What Can We Learn from the Doom of the Gods?
In the 13th century in Iceland a poet and a scholar named Snorri Sturluson wrote two great masterpieces, texts which cast a shadow to this day. In his Poetic Edda and his…
Oumuamua, and Our Search to Reach Our Strangest Visitor.
There is much we don’t know. We may have made extraordinary strides on understanding the limits and levers of reality in the past few hundred years, but we have more questions now…
Orichalcum: A Lost Metal that we Never Lost?
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato, writing about Atlantis, made mention of a fabulous metal which he called “orichalcum”, literally “mountain copper”. This mysterious element was supposedly second only to gold in value,…
The Kóryos, and the Bronze Age Need for Murderers
The Bronze Age was a time of immense upheaval for Indo Europeans. As these people came together and took giant steps towards society and civilization there was much to be learned, and…
The Baghdad Battery: History Rewritten or History Misunderstood?
For those who search for the strange and unusual from history there are certain things which prove interesting time and again. Unexplained phenomena, disappearances and unsolved murders, these always appeal, and it…
Wet Work: The Story of Buster Crabb
In early 1956 Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party, and the Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin arrived on a diplomatic mission to Britain aboard the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze. For the duration…