The ancient alien movie Hollywood didn't want (then it made $200 million)
A buried ring at Giza, a film student who watched Chariots of the Gods, and a real secret program with the same name.
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Field notes.
New finds, new releases, and the occasional rant about a museum basement.
The Sphinx doesn't match the buildings around it
Egyptologists say 4,500 years. The rock says rain, the kind the Sahara hasn't seen in at least 7,000 years.
The missing planet between Mars and Jupiter (and there's some proof)
Kepler saw the gap in 1596. A number pattern said a planet belonged there. What's left is a belt of rocks, some of them made of metal.
Poisoned, shot, and thrown in the river: the legend of Rasputin
A Siberian peasant who stopped a prince's bleeding, survived a knife, cyanide and three bullets, and left a prophecy behind.
Trying to find fairness on an unfair property
Summer in 1980s Gladstone. Five kids on bikes, one open gate, security guards, a cop car on the grass, and the sacred beasts of Chautauqua Lake.
I'm a history teacher
Religion, then philosophy, then history, then twenty years of sports massage. Now I'm teaching kids the Younger Dryas, Gobekli Tepe, and 500 flood myths.
They built this 12,000 years ago and nobody can explain it
For a hundred years the Sumerians were the starting line. Then Gobekli Tepe showed up, and then its bigger, older sister.
The man who wouldn't wave back
Twenty-five days of smiling at a man who scowled at me. Then day twenty-six happened.
The new site is open
Same books, new home. Here's what's different, and what's coming.
Fact isn't fact for long
Troy was a myth until somebody dug it up. Hold your beliefs loose and every new find stops feeling like a threat.
We might be a million years old
A smashed skull from China, a DNA study that didn't know about it, and both landing in the same place.
The Odyssey stayed with me for a week
Mixed reviews, and I expected nothing. Then it sat with me for seven days, and I started reading about Troy again.
Just a guy writing novellas at midnight
Every book is a gamble, even after forty of them. Here's the one I'm about to make.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day gave me allergies
I'd never seen a Tom Holland Spider-Man. Now I think he's the best one. Also, a revised score for Disclosure Day.
The tree that bends
This morning's Tibetan poem compared us to trees, and the message was simple enough to act on today.
The morning 80 million trees fell
June 30th, 1908. Siberia. No crater, no fragments, and a list of suspects that includes Nikola Tesla.
My calorie counter staged an intervention
I bought a scale for fun. Ten days later the AI suggested I see a professional.
You become who you stand next to
Some of life is what you're looking at, and who you're standing beside while you look at it.
The calmest stretch we've ever had
Our ancestors lived through thousand-foot walls of water and ten-degree swings. We got the quiet window. Here's what that's worth.
The man who fell through my cousin
My great-grandfather died in my grandparents' back room. Three of us met him in there, years apart.
The night Vic punched through a window
Eighth grade, an abandoned house in the woods, and the kid nobody wanted to hang around with.