http://www.cronaca.com/ News of the Old, Talk of the New en-us Copyright 2010 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:48:43 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A vase thought to have belonged to an 18th Century Chinese emperor turned up an auction in rural Ireland... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005872.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005872.html Arts & Collecting Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:48:43 -0500 For nearly a year, a middle-aged woman from suburban Philadelphia used her computer to fashion a new, frightening identity,... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005871.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005871.html Rants and ruminations Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:20:52 -0500 The Italian government has signed a deal with Google to put the contents of two national libraries on the... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005870.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005870.html Literature & Performing Arts Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:31:52 -0500 Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005869.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005869.html Science & Technology Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:03:22 -0500 A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks — some of them unusually well-preserved — have been found in the Baltic Sea by... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005868.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005868.html Nautical Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:48:14 -0500 Researchers have found that eggshells of extinct bird species are a rich source of preserved DNA. An international team... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005867.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005867.html Palaeontology Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:24:47 -0500 Summer 1937. What could be more fitting in the cool afternoon of an English country lane than a group... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005866.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005866.html Modern history Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:17:34 -0500 It was bad enough in phone-banking days when banks and credit card companies asked for one's mother's maiden name as... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005865.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005865.html Security Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:52:49 -0500 If not Giant Squid, at least very big squid: In what could be the ultimate marine smack-down, great white sharks... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005864.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005864.html Natural history Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:12:11 -0500 It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005863.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005863.html Arts & Collecting Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:57:03 -0500 This has been written up before, but here's yet another article: In many ways, the Lemba tribe of Zimbabwe and... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005862.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005862.html Anthropology Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:57:36 -0500 Scientists have discovered a dinosaur-like creature 10 million years older than the earliest known dinosaurs. Asilisaurus kongwe is a... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005861.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005861.html Palaeontology Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:40:15 -0500 Scientists say they have identified the fossilised remains of a snake that dined on dinosaur eggs. The 67-million-year-old skeleton... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005860.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005860.html Palaeontology Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:13:18 -0500 http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005859.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005859.html Arts & Collecting Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:32:51 -0500 The fossilised remains of a gigantic 10m-long predatory shark have been unearthed in Kansas, US. Scientists dug up a... http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005858.html http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005858.html Palaeontology Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:12:03 -0500