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Author: Andy Corbley

Rarest-of-the-Rarest Dinosaur Fossil is a Cretaceous Era Still Life of Oviraptor and 24 Eggs
ArchivesEarth Sciences

Rarest-of-the-Rarest Dinosaur Fossil is a Cretaceous Era Still Life of Oviraptor and 24 Eggs

March 15, 2021July 12, 2023

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the latest fossil in what could be described as a 4-decade-long conveyor…

Viewed Through Venetian Glass: An Artform is Reimagined to Capture World in Crisis for Stunning Exhibition
ArchivesTravel

Viewed Through Venetian Glass: An Artform is Reimagined to Capture World in Crisis for Stunning Exhibition

March 12, 2021December 11, 2023

While Venice, a world-mecca for glass art, became a famous casualty of the pandemic, the fires of one of…

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China Russia Moon Research Base Welcomes International Collaboration

March 10, 2021

PICTURED: Artist’s concept of the ILRS. Photo credit: CAST. Published. The directors of Roscosmos, the Russian national aerospace agency,…

War

CIA Air Base in Niger Sahara Grows Larger — Another Drone War to Follow?

March 9, 2021

PICTURED: The base’s original footprint has doubled in size. Photo credit: Planet Labs. Published. First noticed by satellite imagery…

Japanese Cuisine Has Always Increased Lifespan — But What About Healthspan?
ArchivesNutrition

Japanese Cuisine Has Always Increased Lifespan — But What About Healthspan?

March 8, 2021September 25, 2023

After years of gaining popularity as some sort of secret aging cure, the traditional Japanese diet and method of…

Conservation

Santa Fe and Santiago in The Galapagos Get Their Reptiles Back in Big Conservation Wins

March 5, 2021

PICTURED: Juvenile tortoises released on Santa Fe Island. Photo credit: GTRI. SANTA Fe, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. February 26th, 2021.…

3 Days After Yellowstone: The Real Oldest National Park Turns 100 Today
Conservation

3 Days After Yellowstone: The Real Oldest National Park Turns 100 Today

March 4, 2021

PICTURED: Pool of hot spring water in Hot Springs National Park. Photo credit: Brandon Rush. CC 3.0. Hot Springs…

Following Biden’s Bombings in Syria VA Senator Kaine “Insists” on Changes
ArchivesWar

Following Biden’s Bombings in Syria VA Senator Kaine “Insists” on Changes

March 3, 2021February 26, 2024

Following President Biden’s allegedly retaliatory attacks against Iraqi Shi’ite militia groups in Syria, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine has essentially…

Wracked by Decades of War Mosul Museums and Monuments Try and Rebuild
ArchivesWorld News

Wracked by Decades of War Mosul Museums and Monuments Try and Rebuild

March 2, 2021November 15, 2024

When war came to the country of Iraq in the 21st century, it would arrive in a land that…

31 Dems Ask Biden to Start Moving Beyond Old Nuclear War Policy
Foreign Policy

31 Dems Ask Biden to Start Moving Beyond Old Nuclear War Policy

February 26, 2021

PICTURED: President John J. Kennedy returns to the White House in 1962 alongside an Air Force aide carrying the…

Like Jefferson, Scientists Help Demonstrate Pygmies’ Natural Rights to Ancestral Lands Given Over to Logging
Human Sciences

Like Jefferson, Scientists Help Demonstrate Pygmies’ Natural Rights to Ancestral Lands Given Over to Logging

February 25, 2021

DJA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Cameroon. April 1st 2019. PICTURED: A chief of the Baka pygmies looks pensive in a forest…

All the Updates from Mars Courtesy of Perseverance
Space

All the Updates from Mars Courtesy of Perseverance

February 24, 2021

MARS, February 20th, 2021. PICTURED: Half of a Panorama, taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance…

Maternal Diets High in Inflammation Could Lead to Late-Childhood Obesity or Smaller Children
Nutrition

Maternal Diets High in Inflammation Could Lead to Late-Childhood Obesity or Smaller Children

February 23, 2021

In a clever new study, researchers at University College Dublin put together 7 European mother-offspring birth study groups, and…

My Syrian Journey — a View Beyond the Headlines to a Land Before Time
Travel

My Syrian Journey — a View Beyond the Headlines to a Land Before Time

February 22, 2021

DAMASCUS, Syria. October 2007. PICTURED: The busy Al-Nasser street in downtown Damascus, minarets and all. Ahlan wa-sahlan – Welcome…

A Dip Under an Antarctic Ice Shelf Instantly Reveals 36 Creatures New to Science
ArchivesCoffee Break Reads

A Dip Under an Antarctic Ice Shelf Instantly Reveals 36 Creatures New to Science

February 19, 2021August 15, 2023

British Antarctic Survey team members gathering ice cores despaired as their drill bit struck a boulder, half a mile…

Europe’s Best Island Destination is Making A Digital Nomad Village for International Remote Workers
Travel

Europe’s Best Island Destination is Making A Digital Nomad Village for International Remote Workers

February 18, 2021

MADEIRA, Portugal. February 16th, 2021. Winner of Europe’s Leading Island Destination award 5 years running, the island of Madeira…

Taliban Open Letter Urges U.S. Honoring of Withdrawal While the Country Braces for Another Period of Conflict
War

Taliban Open Letter Urges U.S. Honoring of Withdrawal While the Country Braces for Another Period of Conflict

February 17, 2021

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan. February 16th, 2021. The Taliban have published an “open letter” calling on the U.S. to honor her…

Stonehenge Was Likely Built From Other Cannibalized Stone Circles in Wales
Human Sciences

Stonehenge Was Likely Built From Other Cannibalized Stone Circles in Wales

February 15, 2021

Questions have always circled around Stonehenge, and now a breakthrough hypothesis suggests that the world’s most famous Neolithic monument…

SpaceX Receives Contract to Send First Two Lunar Gateway Components into Orbit
ArchivesSpace

SpaceX Receives Contract to Send First Two Lunar Gateway Components into Orbit

February 12, 2021June 6, 2025

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will carry the first two of four components of the Lunar Gateway into space,…

Coffee Break Reads

Perseverance Mars Rover Will Touch Down on the Red Planet in a Week’s Time

February 11, 2021

At 3:55pm EST on February 18th, NASA will commence its 9th Mars landing operation in an attempt to drop…

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Assault on Iran Likely to Boost Already Soaring Gold Market

Andy Corbley March 2, 2026

Whenever missiles and bullets start flying in the Middle East, all eyes are on the oil sector, and this…

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Last Arms Control Treaty Limiting US and Russian Nuclear Weapons Expires

Andy Corbley February 5, 2026

On January 14th, humanity went the longest span of time without detonating a nuclear weapon since the dawn of…

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Europe Wants All the Profit with None of the Responsibility in Seizing Russian Assets

Andy Corbley December 8, 2025

Senior Kremlin officials have applauded Belgium’s stance regarding the seizure of some €215 billion in frozen Russian assets held…

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