http://www.cronaca.com/ News of the Old, Talk of the New en-us Copyright 2010 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:39:49 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Scientists in China say they have discovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing the same way. The footprints... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005850.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005850.html Palaeontology Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:39:49 -0500 In their quest for concision, writers of newspaper headlines are, like Robert Browning, inveterate sweepers away of little words,... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005849.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005849.html Humor Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:29:15 -0500 The CNN writeup is more balanced, but the BBC's better highlights the outrageousness of the underlying issues: The Australian band... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005848.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005848.html Intellectual property law Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:13:35 -0500 A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti has been sold at auction in London for the... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005847.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005847.html Arts & Collecting Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:53:48 -0500 Inspired by Hollywood cowboy films, researchers have delved into the science of gun fights. Scientists discovered that people move... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005846.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005846.html Materia Medica Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:01:23 -0500 The first of 250 British and Australian soldiers whose remains were recovered from a World War I battlefield in... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005845.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005845.html Military history Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:56:15 -0500 The long-sought source of the aqueduct that brought clean fresh water to ancient Rome lies beneath a pig pasture... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005844.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005844.html News of the Old Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:18:00 -0500 A clever bit of detective work by US scholars and scientists has proven that one of the jewels of... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005843.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005843.html Arts & Collecting Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:14:10 -0500 Some of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi's ashes, kept for decades by a family friend, have been scattered off... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005842.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005842.html Modern history Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:10:13 -0500 It didn't take long for the abuses to begin after police were first allowed a cut of property seized from... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005841.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005841.html Current Events Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:08:22 -0500 For those looking for some great old footage of San Francisco, a friend recently brought this YouTube video to my... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005840.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005840.html Modern history Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:31:31 -0500 The discoveries keep on flooding out of China. What a time to be a palaeontologist!A newly discovered fossil has shed... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005839.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005839.html Palaeontology Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:23:59 -0500 Still no telling about skin and scales, but feathers are another matter, now: Confuciusornis' feathers were preserved in extraordinarily complete... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005838.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005838.html Palaeontology Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:58:51 -0500 Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old temple in Alexandria dedicated to a cat goddess. The temple is the... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005837.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005837.html News of the Old Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:02:04 -0500 Undercover Israeli officers foiled an attempt by two Palestinian men to sell an ancient, valuable papyrus document on the... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005836.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005836.html News of the Old Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:34:53 -0500