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		<title>Bone find suggests humans on Treasure Coast 13,000 years ago</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/06/08/bone-find-suggests-humans-on-treasure-coast-13000-years-ago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VERO BEACH &#8211; Treasure Coast amateur fossil collector James Kennedy appears to have made an unprecedented archaeological discovery that might help confirm a human presence here up to 13,000 years ago.    
    
A 15-inch-long prehistoric bone fragment found near Vero Beach contains a crude engraving of a mammoth or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/04/30/lsd-inventor-albert-hofmann-dies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DarkenedSoul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102.
	Mr Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus.
	He accidentally ingested some of the drug and said later: &#8220;Everything I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Antikythera Mechanism: A 2000 Year Old Computer</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/09/the-antikythera-mechanism-a-2000-year-old-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

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		<title>1.8 Million Ancient Indian Manuscripts Go Online</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/02/23/18-million-ancient-indian-manuscripts-go-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/02/23/18-million-ancient-indian-manuscripts-go-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books / E-Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Information]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	The government has created an online database of 1.8 million ancient texts to promote them as treasures of the country and to preserve millions of neglected manuscripts. Out of the five million manuscripts, 1.8 million have been documented.
	As the manuscripts were lying neglected, the ministry had set up a National Mission for Manuscripts with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Muslims Used Carbon Nanotube Swords! Badass!</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/16/ancient-muslims-used-carbon-nanotube-swords-badass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/16/ancient-muslims-used-carbon-nanotube-swords-badass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Think carbon nanotubes are new-fangled? Think again. The Crusaders felt the might of the tube when they fought against the Muslims and their distinctive, patterned Damascus blades.
	Sabres from Damascus, now in Syria, date back as far as 900 AD. Strong and sharp, they are made from a type of steel called wootz.
	Their blades bear a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maya Culture &#8216;Ahead of its Time&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/18/bbc-news-sciencenature-maya-culture-ahead-of-its-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/18/bbc-news-sciencenature-maya-culture-ahead-of-its-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	 Elaborate ritual objects and carved masks have been uncovered in the ancient ruins of a city in Guatemala.
	Exploration of the 2,000-year-old site has caused archaeologists to question the established chronology of the enigmatic Maya civilisation. The city, Cival, thrived in what is generally considered the &#8220;pre-classic&#8221; period &#8211; but it bore the hallmarks of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical Stonehenge May Have Been Found</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/07/05/tropical-stonehenge-may-have-been-found/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/07/05/tropical-stonehenge-may-have-been-found/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	SAO PAULO, Brazil&#8212;A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory _ a find archaeologists say indicates early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed.
	The 127 blocks, some as high as 9 feet tall, are spaced at regular intervals around the hill, like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient fossils fill gap in early human evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/04/13/ancient-fossils-fill-gap-in-early-human-evolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/04/13/ancient-fossils-fill-gap-in-early-human-evolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; An international team of scientists have discovered 4.1 million year old fossils in eastern Ethiopia that fill a missing gap in human evolution.
	The teeth and bones belong to a primitive species of Australopithecus known as Au. anamensis, an ape-man creature that walked on two legs.
	The Australopithecus genus is thought to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newly Found Species Fills Evolutionary Gap Between Fish And Land Animals</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/04/06/newly-found-species-fills-evolutionary-gap-between-fish-and-land-animals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/04/06/newly-found-species-fills-evolutionary-gap-between-fish-and-land-animals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 05:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a species that provides the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that walked out of water onto land about 375 million years ago. The newly found species, Tiktaalik roseae, has a skull, a neck, ribs and parts of the limbs that are similar to four-legged animals known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tune in, turn on . . . evolve?</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/01/tune-in-turn-on-evolve/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/01/tune-in-turn-on-evolve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	On the walls of dozens of caves in southern France and northern Spain lie some of the most majestic works of art ever painted. Drawn 25,000 to 40,000 years ago, the paintings have puzzled anthropologists since they were discovered more than four decades ago.
	Where did this astonishing display of talent come from? Why did these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memetics &amp; Materialism by Jason Godesky</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/12/29/memetics-materialism-by-jason-godesky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/12/29/memetics-materialism-by-jason-godesky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Take, for example, the emergence of Judaism as we know it today. Archaeological evidence—and even “reading between the lines” of the Tanakh—reveals that the original form of Judaism was, aside from its progressive social program, a very typical Bronze Age religion. It was a state religion that provided a foundation myth for the state, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Life Come from Another World?</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/08/did-life-come-from-another-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/08/did-life-come-from-another-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

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		<title>Entheogenic Linkage</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/03/entheogenic-linkage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/03/entheogenic-linkage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	The Psychedelic Salon has posted a new podcast, this one being a dialogue between Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham. 

From the site: It isn&#8217;t often that we have the opportunity to see how accurate predictions about the future are, but this fascinating conversation between two of the great thinkers of our times has already proven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists pinpoint mystery Maya city in Guatemala</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/09/29/scientists-pinpoint-mystery-maya-city-in-guatemala/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/09/29/scientists-pinpoint-mystery-maya-city-in-guatemala/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) &#8211; A Mayan city whose fabulous art has beguiled collectors for decades but whose true location was until now a mystery has been pinpointed in the jungles of northern Guatemala, scientists said on Tuesday. 
	ABC News via The Anomalist

&#8216;Site Q&#8217; has been a Holy Grail of archeology ever since an exquisite set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>28,000 Year Old Dildo Found</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/07/28/28000-year-old-dildo-found/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/07/28/28000-year-old-dildo-found/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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A sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered, researchers say.
	The 20cm-long, 3cm-wide stone object, which is dated to be about 28,000 years old, was buried in the famous Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm in the Swabian Jura.
	The prehistoric &#8220;tool&#8221; was reassembled from 14 [...]]]></description>
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