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Posted in history & archaeology on Sep 25th, 2009
From the Telegraph: Anglo-Saxon hoard is ‘unprecedented’.
The Staffordshire Hoard is by some distance the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found, in terms of both the number of items (over 1,300) and the total mass (around 5kg of gold, and 1.3kg of silver).
The majority of the finds are fragments of decorative fittings from swords or [...]
Posted in animals, birds, insects, etc, history & archaeology, strange stuff on Sep 24th, 2009
From Wired: 1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth.
A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone [...]
From Science Daily: Ice Cream May Target The Brain Before Your Hips, Study Suggests.
Blame your brain for sabotaging your efforts to get back on track after splurging on an extra scoop of ice cream or that second burger during Friday night’s football game.
Findings from a new UT Southwestern Medical Center study suggest that fat from [...]
Posted in food on Sep 19th, 2009
Got grapes? Try this Winemakers’ Grape Cake recipe from globalgourmet.com. The intro:
Come September, I prepare this cake often, taking advantage of whatever clusters of grapes I can find on our vines after harvesting. At Chanterduc, we grow a mixture of Grenache, Syrah and Morvedre grapes, each of which contributes its own personality to the wine [...]
Posted in animals, birds, insects, etc, music on Sep 18th, 2009
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.