Tuesday, August 05, 2003

IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN

I love to walk through my kitchen late at night, when the only light is coming from another room, and the dishes are all either put away or in the dishwasher, and the counters are clean and wiped down, and everything is in its place.

I love the way the light gleams on the counters, and on the appliances, and on the cabinets.

I love opening up the refrigerators and seeing that they are full of food.

They have roast beef, pastrami, ham, cheese, turkey, watermelon, a pound of crab meat, yogurt, eggs, milk, orange juice, bread, mayonnaise, vegetables, and a bazillion kinds of salad dressing and hot sauce, and the freezers are full, too.

If we were attacked by terrorists, we wouldn't need groceries for days.

Thursday, July 03, 2003

MYSTERIOUS WORLD

Strange reports * Bizarre biology * Anomalous archaeology
From New Scientist, Nature, Scientific American, etc

Archaeology Astronomy Biology Geology Geophysics Mathematics Psychology Physics

Catalogue of Anomalies

THE REAL GARDEN OF EDEN?

Almaty, in Kazakhstan, is probably the birthplace of apples.




Looking at this map, I remembered a similar map that showed the probable origin and migration of the red-haired Celtic looking mummies found in eastern China, including Urumchi, Taklamakan in the Tarim Basin and Xingjiang.



TRACKING THE TARIM MUMMIES - A solution to the puzzle of Indo-European origins?






Mummy found in Tarim basin area.



European bog mummy

Coincidence?