photo courtesy of EIA/Jordi Mestre

It turns out that the jawbone holding a few teeth found last year in a Spanish cave were actually once a part of the last common ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals – Pioneer Man.

Spanish researchers used three techniques to approximate the age of the fossil at 1.2 million years, a half-million years older than previously discovered humanlike fossils from the same region in the mountains of northern Spain.

Click here to read about the many colors in the homo rainbow.

How must it feel to live in a state where for months on end you were bombarded with television and radio ad’s promoting or lambasting a presidential candidate, only to find the morning after the election that your vote didn’t matter? How must it feel sitting before the television on the night of the election – the election that seemed to take forever to finally arrive – watching the numbers scroll along the bottom of the screen that shows your chosen person is running away with the show, earning 65% of the state’s vote, going to bed elated that your “team” won, then waking to find that the guy who lost doesn’t care and is in another state with his arms raised in victory? I would imagine it must feel frustrating, and rather depressing.

This is how the people of Kentucky must feel this morning, after waiting so long to vote either for Hillary Clinton or against Barack Obama (only the voter truly knows which). No matter how much mud-slinging, or campaign promoting they endured, the man they had to wait so long to vote against was claiming victory before they even had a chance to vote. It must be a bitter pill to swallow that he was right, and apparently Kentucky didn’t matter.

Click here to read how being blue in a red state could have the nation’s leaders competely ignoring you, and only those desperately clinging on to the thread of pride pandering for your vote.

It’s no wonder our children are lacking in their science studies these days. When one in six high school biology teachers believe in mythology over evolution I’d imagine it’s difficult to learn a subject so based in reality. Many of us would hope that religion could be taught in religious institutions, and that our children could get an education in science while attending high school science classes.

The National Academy of Sciences believe the study of evolution to be the “central concept of biology”, yet the teachers willingly overlook this since they tend to believe a god created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. So, if the story of God has to be taught in a public school environment, maybe it would be best to teach it a carpentry class.

Click here to read why G.B. Shaw’s quote in “Maxims for Revolutionists”, “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches,” is ringing louder in the public high schools of America today than it possibly ever has.

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Love ‘em or hate ‘em, those who control our natural resources are bound to be those in charge of the direction we take to power our homes and vehicles.

For 8 years now the term “Texas oil-man” only sounded good to those who would benefit from the gold in their coffers. Now, we may be able to repeat the term without it bringing on a gag-reflex as one Texas oil-man, T. Boone Pickens, is investing billions in wind turbines.

Click here to read about one oil-man who realizes that his form of income is on the verge of being outsourced.

It isn’t so bizarre that humans survived all this time on medicine provided by Mother Nature. What is bizarre is how we’ve allowed ourselves to be convinced by pharmaceutical companies that homeopathic medicine is voodoo. Although when one considers how sheep-like we tend to be under the guidance of our elected officials it’s not so unbelieveable after all.

When our government bends to allow pharmaceutical companies to poison the population, like Ronald Reagan did when he forced the FDA to allow Donald Rumsfeld’s Aspartame on the market, we have to question how much these people truly care about the health and welfare of the people.

It appears the oil extracted from black seed, used medicinally by Middle Eastern people for over a thousand years, blocks the growth and kills over 80% of pancreatic cancer cells. Now we can only hope our government doesn’t ban it for not being able to capitalize on it.

Click here to read how we know the cure is there, but we just have to know which plant to ingest.

The UK Parliament voted to allow the creation of human-animal embryos in an effort to give scientists the necessary “tools” in stem-cell research. Due to a lack of donated human embryos, researchers believe the creation of these “admixed” eggs will allow them to continue to work at finding cures for some of our worst afflictions.

Some say it’s unethical, and one Catholic cardinal went so far as to deem it “Frankenstein science”, but it could be argued that tossing a perfectly good embryo into the bin that could otherwise have been used to possibly cure a person suffering from Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, or even cancer is truly unethical.

Click here to read about how our planet may one day have centaurs roaming freely beside, what could be considered completely immoral, human grocery stores called “Savior Siblings”.

It seems that the forfeiture of common sense is a prerequisite of employment within the United States federal government. Our country has wasted away billions of dollars on the “War on Drugs”, and no matter how many positive points one makes when arguing in defense of drug legalization, those in the untouchable “frat house” in Washington D.C. are too dumb to figure it out.

4 more bodies turned up along the Mexican-American border as a result of criminals wielding the power and absolute control of the drug biz. And though most of understand that legalizing drugs will help crush the criminals who are making millions dealing them, those we vote to control us are too tucked away in the sterility of a whitewashed haven to realize the necessity behind the notion.

Click here to read why wherever there’s a demand there is not only a supply, but there are also dead bodies.

The United States is currently detaining at least 59 people in Guantanamo Bay that intelligence officers have deemed to have never been of any threat to our security. Bakers, farmers, and a man called “half-head Bob” are some of those originally placed on “recommended for repatriation” lists prior to them being sent to the maximum-security prison camp on the southern shore of Cuba.

Click here to read why intelligence officers should not always take the blame for decisions made by the paranoid people running our country.

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has no intention of giving up his seat to his rival Morgan Tsvangirai. Although Tsvangirai won the presidential election in late March, Mugabe was able to seal enough of a margin to force a runoff election on June 27th. In the meantime, Mugabe is pulling out the guns, literally. After recently running 40,000 opposition supporters off their farmlands, he now is consipiring to assassinate Tsvangirai.

Click here to read why the political scene in some nations can make us all happy to live in a country where stolen elections don’t come packaged with violence.

After 8 years of “cowboy politics” which caused the destruction of our image as “the peacekeepers of the world”, Barack Obama announced his foreign policy would be based off of diplomacy. Common sense tells us that talking to people from whom we seek help is a far better strategy than the bullying method the Republicans proved is only good for upsetting people.

When our dollar and our military have thinned to when we cannot pose any threat against a nation as strong as Iran, yet we seek their cooperation in bringing about an end to the Middle East conflict, it may be best to stop flexing our muscles in their faces. In the same sense that we wouldn’t harbor ill-feelings toward Holland for disliking their German neighbors, it just might be time to let Iran go on hating Israel, but talk to them about the issue of the war we’re so buried in at the moment.

Click here to read how Senator John Kyl shows that the Republicans have every intention of remaining steadfast in their arrogance toward foreign relations.