How many people heard growing up that “rain follows the plow”? “It was those standing to profit from a prosperous West—the real estate speculators, the railroads, and the politicians—who propagated the tale”.

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/fantastically-wrong-rain-follows-the-plow//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Robert the Bruce got a yawn from the curators at Geni.com but he continues to fascinate many of us. “The Brus was written by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen, in about 1375 and covers the Wars of Independence waged by Robert the Bruce. Its centrepiece is a stirring and bloody description of the Battle of Bannockburn, in which Robert Bruce, King of Scots, faced down the English army led by Edward II.”

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/earliest-surviving-copy-epic-poem-brus-brought-back-life-001790//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

There’s still a chance for free will. “Neural noise is simply that the brain is always firing even in the absence of input or responses, and this random firing may even be the carrier upon which our consciousness rides, in the same way that radio-static is used to carry a radio station”.

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/free-will-illusion-83861///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js