For 22 years, Liu Yongbiao got away with murder while writing novels inspired by those murders. Then the police tricked him into giving himself up.Huzhou Intermediate CourtLiu Yongbiao and accomplice Wang Mouming in court.
Chinese crime novelist Liu Yongbiao — who used the memory of four murders he committed 23 years ago as inspiration for his books — has now been sentenced to death for his crimes.
The Huzhou Intermediate People’s Court in the Zhejiang Province of China found Liu and his accomplice, Wang Mouming, guilty of both robbery and homicide after the two men admitted to their crimes. Read More...
The history books may have to be revised.Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute Archeologists dug deep to uncover charcoal bits with tweezers.
The Heiltsuk Nation — an indigenous government in British Columbia — has long claimed extensive land rights based on their people’s history in the area, which they say stretches back to before the last ice age.
That assertion has rested on traditional oral accounts passed down through thousands of generations — not exactly bulletproof evidence to bring to the negotiating table. Read More...
Thomas Edison was long credited as the inventor of recorded sound — that is, until a 2008 discovery.Wikimedia CommonsPhonautograph
As we’ve argued before, receiving credit for an invention has as much to do with good timing as it does the act of making the thing itself. This is especially true for Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, a French inventor who created a recorded sound device decades before Thomas Edison would win intellectual “ownership” of that very feat. Read More...
