Human Interest

Science recently confirmed something that Queen fans have known for years: Freddie Mercury was an amazing singer. The late singer’s inimitable voice was the subject of a study by a team of Austrian, Czech and Swedish researchers who set out to analyze Mercury’s voice from archived recordings in an attempt to find out exactly what made it so memorable. Their results were published in April in Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology (via AlphaGalileo).

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of being an unwitting “dictator” of “the biggest nation in the world,” by Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay. Peter Sunde made the remarks during an interview at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam, warning that centralization of power on the internet is a very dangerous thing. “People in the tech industry have a lot of responsibilities but they never really discuss these things … Facebook is the biggest nation in the world and we have a dictator, if you look at it from a democracy standpoint, Mark Zuckerberg is a dictator.

I can’t even.

A Greek archaeologist believes that he has discovered the lost tomb of the ancient philosopher Aristotle in northern Greece. Kostas Sismanidis said he was almost sure that a 2,400 year-old domed vault his team unearthed in ancient Stagira, now known as Olympiada, was the burial place of the man credited with formalising logic. Sismanidis said “I have no hard proof, but strong indications lead me to almost certainty” Press TV reports: “We had found the tomb,” he said.

Two Airline pilots have claimed that a huge UFO with green flashing lights passed by the EgyptAir 804 flight an hour before it crashed in the Mediterranean between Turkey and Egypt. The two Turkish Airline pilots say the UFO flew by their plane last Thursday night, close to Istanbul’s Silivri district when the plane was at 17,000-ft at 11.30pm. One hour after the sighting the EgyptAir plane crashed.