Things that are utterly bloody fascinating

Oh this thread is going to take time 😂

I love this thread! It's going to keep me very busy...
I find this amazing, feels like the people in the film are looking at US from the past, especially the 3 little boys halfway through...

This should be a classic thread @MumsnetTowers! Bit less weighty but I personally love the rabbithole of personal accounts of getting involved and having to extricate themselves from pyramid schemes, seeing the way these things slowly get their talons into well meaning people. Elle's Poonique Blog is a good place to start. There's a Forever L*ving one expose too but can't remember the name of it.

There's a place in Turkey called Karahan Tepe which is 12,000 years old.
It's incredible and only just being learned about.

But there are carvings there so amazingly well preserved it's hard to fathom.

It's over twice as old as Giza!

www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-an-unknown-extraordinarily-ancient-civilisation-lie-buried-under-eastern-turkey/

There was something like that at the Tate, an exhibition of things found in and around The Thames. Lots of cool stuff catalogued.

Sadly the videos are not in my Youtube library. The explorer is exploring storm drains/tunnels in London. The person randomly climbs down drains in the streets of London. I will keep searching. I watched it before Christmas, I wish I could remember. Sooooo fascinating. I will post again if I find the link.

RE the 'mystery' of who built the pyramids and who 'really' wrote the works of Shakespeare, it just boils down to the imperialist mindset, classism and racism in the end. I start my history PHD in September and though I went in a completely different direction I really wanted to name it 'just because white people couldn't do it, doesn't mean the aliens did'😄

Really great thread, can I suggest this project for people to take a look at belowthesurface.amsterdam/ - cataloguing 20,000 items found in the canals of Amsterdam, from Gameboys to ancient coins. It is so interesting I could look at it all for hours.

This thread is amazing! So many good suggestions here.

I like a good maths/logic puzzle. I remember watching the Royal Institution Christmas lectures years ago on TV and learning about the Monty Hall problem. It’s about mathematical probability not working quite how you’d expect it to. I know that sounds boring but it really isn’t, and I found the lecture on YouTube which explains it really well:

I watched a whole programme on this, it was really fascinating.

Yes it’s absolutely fascinating. The size of our Earth and sun compared to those most giant of suns far off in other galaxies really shows where we are in the great scheme of things.

I’m obsessed with how to repair and mend things, ideally on the cheap. You’d be amazed what you can bring back
from the dead with the right little pot on Amazon.

My current handbag cost £1 in a jumble sale and after some lovely fossicking about online, I sorted it out and it had to be insured for over £1400.

Anything expensive and old can survive decades of neglect and come up
smiling. Love that.

I quite like some of the unexplained incident things (especially if they involve snow apparently!) like the Dyatlov Pass incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident

Everything, once you start to look at it. The very fact we are here and at some point will cease to exist forever and are just a blink in time and a speck of star dust. A pale blue dot in the universe.

The belongings in the suitcases should be returned to the families of the owners if they can be found, or are aware themselves, like a public request for family to come forward if possible.

I am fascinated by language as others have touched on, how meaning changes & just frankly weird words that have survived or not. I have a book about local words that haven't survived, I remember reading this word "dimpsy" no-one uses this anymore but it means it's getting dark, apparently. I might try to revive these words 😂

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain Thank you, I'll have a read.

I had never heard of this but now need to learn more...my mum spent time in a psychiatric hospital in the 80s..she remembers it as one of the calmest/easiest times of life..but know the experience can be very different depending on illness etc and where you go.

The case of Elizabeth Holmes.

Following. I love looking at property, and travelling around on Google earth.

Consider making a thread? I'd love to know more.

City of London. Shady on all levels

The Chaos Theory and quantum physics. I find it utterly fascinating. I need to find reading material that's a bit dumbed down though, as it's quite complicated to understand in any real depth.

Omg, thanks Op! This is right up my street. I love comparing old maps and street photos with newer ones as someone up thread said.

My mind was blown when I took my dd to a playdate. The house was a modest 3 bed Victorian, but it had a side entrance for the maid and she'd lived in the basement (way back when). I got thinking about that period of history when it was normal for middle class people to have live in maids.

I also love spotting ghost signs on buildings. Google it🙂

There is a good Netflix documentary on this called ancient apocalypse, the presenter an archaeologist dismisses we originate from caveman based on these sites, thinks there was an advanced civilisation, slams academics for not being open to this fact.
I have same view. Oddly when I was a child I knew about Atlantis having never been taught anything about it. I am fascinated now.

Edinburgh. The royal Mile. All modern roads and buildings surround it but once you get there The buildings completely change.
Centuries old tightly built tall buildings, street is cobbled.
But under this area is the original town. The buildings and street you see were built over the old town.
People still lived in the original streets which became dark and damp as it was now underground. People coming up to the surface to purchase food etc.
Over time the old town was then blocked up (some streets allegedly with plague victims still inside) until no one lived there and none could get in.
The streets and buildings are still there buried beneath Edinburgh.

There are tours round some of the old streets/closes that have now been opened. Some are done at night to see the ghosts !

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