Cheers! Eight ancient drinks uncorked by science  – MSNBC.com

Memo to RMN: In the event of a moon disaster – Roger Ebert’s Journal Photocopy of a predrafted speech for Richard Nixon in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were unable to leave the moon.  – Mike

Mummies and statues point to Cleopatra tomb: Site near the Mediterranean Sea may contain tomb of the doomed lovers (updated 4/20/2009) – MSNBC.com (With a video – Mike)

Lost civilization may have been beneath Persian Gulf: Area may have been home to some of the earliest humans outside Africa (Updated 12/10/2010 10:50:06 AM ET 2010-12-10) –MSNBC.com

Melting in Andes Reveals Remains and Wreckage (1/15/11) – NY Times [Bravado] fades when talk shifts to what climbers are discovering on Huayna Potosí’s glacier: crumpled fuselage, decades-old pieces of wings and propellers, and, in November, the frozen body of Rafael Benjamín Pabón, a 27-year-old pilot whose Douglas DC-6 crashed into the mountain’s north face in 1990…

Ancient Calendar: The Ancient, Julian, & Gregorian Calendar, and Names of the Days of the Week – ancienthistory.about.com

Geologic and Biological Timeline of the Earth – Scientificpsychic.com Astronomical and geological evidence indicates that the Universe is approximately 13,700 million years old, and our solar system is about 4,567 million years old. Earth’s Moon formed 4,450 million years ago, just 50 million years after the Earth’s formation. Because the composition of the rocks retrieved from the Moon by the Apollo missions is very similar to rocks from the Earth, it is thought that the Moon formed as a result of a collision between the young Earth and a Mars-sized body, sometimes called Orpheus or Theia…

Dog was an American’s best friend — and a meal — 9,400 years ago,: Scientists claim bone belonged to earliest confirmed domesticated dog in the Americas (1/19/11) – MSNBC.com

Mammoth blood revived by bacteria: 43,000-year-old DNA shows how mammals survived cold (5/3/10) – MSNBC.com What the now-extinct pachyderm’s oxygen-carrying blood molecule has revealed are some unique adaptations to cold which allowed mammoths to survive the most brutal Arctic ice age winters without their limbs falling off. The discovery might also lead medical applications for humans.

Mammoth resurrection on the way? – MSNBC.com

Indiana Jones and the mysteries of archaeology – (1/18/11) MSNBC.com John Roach writes:The long-extinct woolly mammoth could be resurrected within five years, thanks to recent advances in cloning technology.

Pterosaurs 10 times heavier than biggest birds (updated 1/18/2011) –   MSNBC.com