happy mutants Translating Homer's Odyssey into limericks Cory Doctorow

happy mutants 2,000+ awesome hieroglyphs, coming soon to Unicode Cory Doctorow

History Public goods are REALLY good: thousands of years later, the Roman roads are still paying dividends Cory Doctorow

History How a businessman's hunch became New Age gospel Ellsworth Toohey

art Ancient Roman gemstone shows a grasshopper driving a butterfly-led chariot Popkin

travel DNA shows Anglo Saxon girl had West African grandparent in 650 Rob Beschizza

england List of supernatural inhabitants of England Rob Beschizza

archaeology "Extraordinary" 4,000-year-old skull reveals medical milestone Allan Rose Hill

History What Neanderthals looked like 75,000 years ago Rob Beschizza

Advertisement The molybdenum miner's unforeseen odyssey Boing Boing

antiques Construction crew digs up magnificent 2,000-year-old marble head that had been reused as building material David Pescovitz

History Tourist who carved initials into the Roman Colosseum says he didn't know it was old David Pescovitz

umami Map of umami foods across the world Jennifer Sandlin

reverse engineering Researchers reverse-engineer Roman concrete Andrew Yi

art The world's oldest narrative art has been discovered. It's a picture of a guy jerking off to horny leopards Thom Dunn

books Cult of the Dead, an aptly-named book about the history of Christianity Elías Villoro

Technology The Vessel of the Ritual of Damnation is being auctioned off on eBay Thom Dunn

cheating Auto racing and the Unfair Advantage Andrew Yi

rainbow Rainbow-colored scarf cloud seen in China Andrew Yi

sexy handaxe theory Paleolithic people made handaxes to show off their sexiness, argue some paleontologists Mark Frauenfelder