The love of Cars Led to Destruction of Trains in Sydney in 1950s It is funny how history repeats itself. In the 1950s, it was a policy that all trains, famously known as trams, should be destroyed since the city was not able to accommodate them together with the increasing number of motor cars. All… Continue reading The love of Cars Led to Destruction of Trains in Sydney in 1950s

 How World Wars advanced science in History It is through the war that science got pushed beyond imaginable levels. Science proved itself as an evil genius since it has made wars more terrible than they used to be. This was written by a politician in the US, aa antiwar activist William Jennings Bryan.  These he… Continue reading How World Wars advanced science in History

Disneyland opened the Monsanto House of the Future in 1957, an all-plastic dwelling. After this, millions of visitors passed through the fantastical rooms that were designed by MIT architects with curved walls and large windows. The house had plastic chairs, the kitchen was full of plastic plates and cups, and it had synthetic floors. Monsanto’s… Continue reading How Plastic Use Grew In America

Archeologists are now in the process of excavating a 4,000 year old burial mound on a British island that is linked in mythology to the mysterious order of magical priests called the Druids. Although the burial mound is older than the Druids who only lived 2000 years ago, if they existed in the first place;… Continue reading The Revealing of the Island Of Druids

The New York City officials have a plan to build new jails to replace the notorious Rikers Island Prison complex. Even when corrections staff shuttled through the massive complex which houses 7,800 inmates, from outside, the jails on Riker Island look neglected. Getting to the city on bus Q100 Queens over the bridge to Rikers… Continue reading New Plan To Build New Jails Receives a Backlash

As soon as a drought dried up water in the Mansoul Dam reservoir in Iraq, it exposed the ruins of an old city dating to the Bronze Age. According to archeologists, the city had a palace with walls preserved to a height of 22 feet/7 meters. Inside the castle were chambers which had once been… Continue reading Drought in Mosul Dam Reveals a Mighty Empire

More than two decades after researchers discovered the 3,800-year-old remains of “Jomon woman” in Hokkaido, Japan, they’ve finally deciphered her genetic secrets. And it turns out, from that perspective, she looks very different from modern-day inhabitants of Japan. The woman, who was elderly when she died, had a high tolerance for alcohol, unlike some modern… Continue reading Freckled Woman with High Alcohol Tolerance Lived in Japan 3,800 Years Ago

There are no surviving members of an ancient and mysterious group of people who lived in North America for millennia. Until now, scientists thought they had vanished without a trace. A research, however, shows that this paleo group’s genes live on today in several indigenous cultures. The team analysed bone samples from the remains of… Continue reading These First Americans Vanished Without a Trace — But Hints of Them Linger

A pair of children’s teeth that were lost 31,000 years ago in Siberia led scientists to the discovery of a previously unknown population of ancient humans. These people inhabited northeastern Siberia during the Ice Age and were genetically distinct from other groups in the region, researchers reported. . The scientists analyzed genetic data extracted from… Continue reading Unknown Group of Ancient Humans Once Lived in Siberia, New Evidence Reveals

Getting high on marijuana may not be a modern pastime, as archaeologists have found the earliest clear evidence to date that people were smoking cannabis for its psychoactive properties some 2,500 years ago. They found evidence of burned cannabis with high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) (the cannabis ingredient responsible for the high) on 10 wooden… Continue reading People Smoked Pot to Get High at Least 2,500 Years Ago