This is the last day to contribute to the Rossing Centre’s campaign to strengthen their work in Israel and the West Bank. As Ambassadors for the Centre, my wife and I have raised half of our goal USD1,000. We visited The Rossing Centre in Jerusalem in 2017 and were greatly impressed with their healing work. They partner with over 60 Jewish and Arab schools, colleges, and universities to give young people the knowledge and skills they need to cope with conflict and live with d

Dear Friends, My wife and I are privileged to be ambassadors for The Rossing Centre, located in Jerusalem. They have a heart for healing the pain of Israelis and Palestinians in their ongoing struggle for peace. We met Dr Sarah Bernstein, the Director, during the Healing Hatred Conference the Centre conducted in 2017 in Jerusalem – a powerful transformative experience. The Rossing Centre is holding a fundraising campaign to strengthen its valuable work in the West Bank and Is

Too easy – you guessed it! It’s a Irtysh decompression chamber or in other words a hyperbaric oxygenation chamber, Its main use was to rescue pilots or trainee cosmonauts suffering from the bends. It also alleviates excessive bleeding, helping the body restrict the loss of blood. The Soviets, who put the first satellite, dog, woman, and man in space used it. It’s been on display in London’s Science Museum on occasions. Have a happy and safe Christmas and New Year.

What would you do if you found one of these creeping around your house? What is it and what was it used for? Your best creative guess. You'll be pleased to know this is the last for the year so give it your best shot! Answer posted tomorrow.

As some of you guessed, yes ... it’s a bird. Discovered during the 1898 excavation of the Pa-di-Imen tomb in Saqqara, Egypt, the Saqqara bird is a shaped artifact made from the wood of a sycamore tree. So what was its purpose? Was it simply the toy of an affluent Egyptian child? Did it serve some kind of ceremonial purpose? Regardless, the object has few realistic bird traits. With its vertical tail, resembling that of an airplane or glider, it resembles no known bird. Egypti

What is this and what was its use? Scientists date it around 200 BC. Weighs in a little under 40gms measuring approximately 18 cms across. Answer posted tomorrow.

I enjoyed the creativity of some responses - the work of tiny crabs, huge dung beetles, the rocks brakes failed! If you mentioned weather, you were headed in the right direction. This is an amazing place in California. It’s called Death Valley National Park. The National Park is known for its very specific lake. It dried up long, and 60 pound rocks move by themselves along its bottom, leaving long furrows behind. For a long time, the phenomenon of sliding rocks could not be u