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Discoveries reshuffled. Featured entry is now Gigantopithecus and Bigfoot.
Gigantopithecus blacki and Bigfoot are often placed side by side because both evoke a very large ape, but the evidence for them is fundamentally different. Gigantopithecus is an extinct primate known from fossils.
Open this threadThe Book of Enoch, usually called 1 Enoch, is not a single eyewitness chronicle secretly removed from every Bible.
Read full entryThe golden ratio, usually written φ (phi), is the positive number approximately equal to 1.6180339887. It appears when a line is divided so that the ratio of the whole line to the longer…
Read full entryHermes Trismegistus—“Hermes the Thrice-Great”—is a legendary wisdom figure formed through the meeting of Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth.
Read full entryThe ocean has repeatedly rewarded caution toward the phrase “that animal cannot exist.” Giant squid were known for centuries through carcasses, beaks, scars on whales and sailors' accounts…
Read full entryThe institution popularly called the “Vatican Secret Archives” is now officially the Vatican Apostolic Archive.
Read full entryA torus is the familiar doughnut-shaped surface formed when a circle revolves around an axis outside itself.
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Practices at the edge of accepted medicine — what has been studied, what has not, and where the record ends.
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Techniques and instruments that were once in use and later abandoned, misplaced or superseded.
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Suppressed records, contested chronologies and the politics of what gets written down.
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Cosmologies, rites and symbol systems recorded across the ancient world.
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Figures that recur across mythologies — and the archaeology, hoaxes and folklore around them.
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Attention, intention and mind — from measured cognitive science to untestable claims.
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Research restricted, retracted or withdrawn, and the documented reasons why.
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Pattern, proportion and structure — mathematics, measurement, and the meanings laid over them.
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