their hands --- or their minds.Fakery of the first waterThere are charlatans operating at a tourist trap in Nantuki, Kenya. In this little town, located right on the equator, a local mountebank works for tips as he glibly cons busloads of tourists into believing that the rotation of the earth causes water draining from a container to spin clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter ...
out to be older than previously thought. This past September, scientists from the University of Utah dated rocks in Kenya that contained ancient tools. The rocks had been thought to be 500,000 years old, but the new measurements indicate they are at least 700,000 and possibley 900,000 years old. And there are hominids older than that, too (they seem to have evolved in eastern and southern ...