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Human Composting? Colorado Could Become Second State to Legalize Turning Your Body Into Soil After Death
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 3 years ago
Colorado may soon join Washington as the second state in the nation to legalize human composting, According to The Denver Post, a bill has already passed one Colorado legislative chamber and is only a few votes and one signature away from allowing people to turn their bodies into soil after...
Indigenous South American tribes found to have ancient Australian DNA
Via: Freefaller • Anthropology & Archeology • 12 Comments • 3 years ago
Australia is deemed the most isolated continent on Earth, but DNA from early indigenous groups spread throughout the world and specifically into the ancient bloodline of South American tribes. Previous work from 2015 first uncovered a link between ancient Australians and Amazonian groups, but a...
FBI: Nashville bomber driven by conspiracies, paranoia
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 3 years ago
WASHINGTON — The man who blew himself up inside his recreational vehicle in a Christmas Day bombing in Nashville was grappling with paranoia and eccentric conspiracy theories, but there are no indications he was motivated by social or political ideology, the FBI said Monday in closing out the...
Earth's magnetic field flipped 42,000 years ago, creating a climate 'disaster'
Via: Freefaller • Health, Science & Technology • 4 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
A reversal in Earth's magnetic field thousands of years ago plunged the planet into an environmental crisis that may have resembled "a disaster movie," scientists recently discovered. Our planet's magnetic field is dynamic and, numerous times, it has flipped — when the magnetic North and South...
Tennessee man shot, killed after YouTube video 'prank' goes wrong
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 20 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
A man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Nashville business Friday night after a robbery "prank" for a YouTube channel went wrong, according to police. When officers got to Urban Air in the city's Hermitage neighborhood about 9:20 p.m., they learned Timothy Wilks, 20, and a friend...
Dire wolves were real—and even stranger than we thought
Via: Freefaller • Health, Science & Technology • 6 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 years ago
Even before appearing as fictional pets in the television series Game of Thrones, dire wolves had long captured imaginations. Weighing around 150 pounds, the creatures were larger than the heaviest of today’s gray wolves. They roamed throughout large swaths of the Americas and preyed on now...
Mysterious silver monolith disappears from Utah desert
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 4 years ago
A tall, silver, shining metal monolith discovered in the desert in southeastern Utah -- which prompted theories of alien placement and drew determined hikers to its secret location -- has now disappeared, the state's Bureau of Land Management said Saturday. The monolith was removed by an...
A 2020 space oddity? Mysterious metal object found in Utah desert
Via: Freefaller • Stranger Than Fiction • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
A mysterious slab of metal stands silently in the desert, leaving Earth's primates puzzled. That's how the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey begins. It's also the way things are playing out in Utah in 2020, after biologists made a baffling discovery in the state's southern desert....
Diwali 2020: When is it and how is it celebrated?
Via: Freefaller • Travel, Geography and Foreign Cultures • 3 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“This November, millions of people around the world will celebrate light over darkness amid the coronavirus pandemic.”
Diwali, also known as the festival of lights, is the biggest festival celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists around the world. Its date changes every year and commemorates different things depending on local tradition and culture. When is Diwali? As per India’s official holiday calendar,...
Man mauled by black leopard after paying for ‘full contact experience’
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 18 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
A Florida man who paid $150 to get up-close and personal with a black leopard is now suing the sanctuary that made it happen, after the animal mauled him instead of submitting for pictures and belly-rubs. The attack happened at a backyard animal sanctuary in Davie, Fla., on Aug. 31, according...