Seventy million years ago, a dragon-like creature ruled the skies above Mongolia. This pterosaur—a member of the order that includes pterodactyl—had a wingspan the size of a small plane, could launch off the ground in seconds, and may have even eaten baby dinosaurs. Imagine a long-beaked monster, tall enough to see eye-to-eye with a giraffe, but flying […]
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Making A Magical Substance For Health And Wealth – Discovery Of Alchemy Transcripts By Isaac Newton
A recent auction has led to the discovery of one of Isaac Newton’s alchemy transcripts, which may just be one step towards creating the magical substance known as the philosopher’s stone. According to Live Science , the manuscript dating back to the 17th century, was concealed within Newton’s private collection. The title of the document translates to […]
Foreign Mining, State Corruption and Human Rights in Mongolia
Packed with distortions and outright lies, Mongolia’s privatized former state media called them the ‘enemies of Mongolia’. On 16 September 2013, the leaders of Mongolia’s Fire Nation (Gal Undesten in Mongolian), an environment and human rights coalition, organized a mass protest in front of the Mongolian Parliament. Decades of grassroots organizing to establish environmental protections were at risk: on September […]