Hawkins's computer was too literal. But his instinct — that Stonehenge handled information — survives every test the sixty years since have thrown at it. An investigation through stone provenance, isotopes, ancient DNA and landscape archaeology, ending with a named, testable hypothesis: the Gathering Engine.
Recent Antarctic research reveals accelerating ice loss patterns from sub-Antarctic islands to the continental ice sheets, with Heard Island's 22% glacier decline over 72...