Australian Warship Found After 66-Year Search: The 1941 sinking of the HMAS Sydney was Australia’s worst naval disaster ever. For six decades, Australians have been wondering how the pride of its navy could have been sunk by a lightly-armed German cruiser. Now, that mystery might finally be solved. [Spiegel]
How the Greek Agora Changed the World: It was the heart of the city – where ordinary citizens bought and sold goods, politics were discussed and ideas were passed among great minds like Aristotle and Plato. Who knows where we’d be without the “agoras” of ancient Greece. Lacking the concept of democracy, perhaps, or the formula for the length of the sides of a triangle (young math students, rejoice!). Modern doctors might not have anything to mutter as an oath. [Live Science]
In U.S. Politics, Party Rule Flips Like Clockwork: If history is any judge, party power in American politics seems to switch back and forth at consistent, predictable intervals. [Discovery]
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