Doors keyboardist and co-founder dies at the age of 74
There were two things that defined the sound of The Doors… one was the languid voice and dark, brooding lyrics of Jim Morrison and the other was the soulful and intricate keyboard melodies of Ray Manzarek. And today, at the age of 74, Manzarek passed from this mortal coil to join Jim Morrison on the other side.
Abandoned Stars Wars sets in the deserts of north Africa
For the first couple Star Wars movies, the deserts of Morocco and Tunisia made good backdrops for the desert planet of Tattooine. Many of those set pieces are still there, just rotting away in the desert, and New York photographer Rä di Martino went to go find the abandoned sets of Star Wars.
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Oldest water on Earth found bubbling up from ancient Ontario oasis — 2.6 billion years oldMiners drilling deep underground in northern Ontario have long known about the sparkling salty water.It’s been bubbling out of the rocks beneath their feet since the 1880s, but no one really appreciated the significance — until now.An international research team reported Wednesday that miners near Timmins are tapping into an ancient underground oasis that may harbour prehistoric microbes. The water flowing out of fractures and bore holes in one mine near Timmins dates back more than a billion years, perhaps 2.6 billion, making it the oldest water known to exist on Earth, says the team that details the discovery in the journal Nature.“This is the oldest [water] anybody has been able to pull out, and quite frankly, it changes the playing field,” says geologist Barbara Sherwood Lollar, at the University of Toronto, who co-led the team. (Barbara Sherwood Lollar)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/c5916780cf07bd3ca69edf8569eb36d3/tumblr_mmwa5oAROY1qze0z6o1_250.jpg)
