Archive for August, 2012

Happy birthday, HPL

Monday, August 20th, 2012

Happy birthday to H.P. Lovecraft. This day should be a national holiday.

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3,000-year-old Frankenstein monsters discovered

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Our ancestors lived lives straight out of nightmares:

In a “eureka” moment worthy of Dr. Frankenstein, scientists have discovered that two 3,000-year-old Scottish “bog bodies” are actually made from the remains of six people.

According to new isotopic dating and DNA experiments, the mummies—a male and a female—were assembled from various body parts, although the purpose of the gruesome composites is likely lost to history.

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