UK experts say Stonehenge was place of healing

People came from all over Europe for Stonehenge's healing powers, and chipped off blue stones to make amulets:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080922/ap_on_sc/eu_britain_stonehenge

Super Volcanos

Several volcanoes around the world are capable of gigantic eruptions unlike anything witnessed in recorded history, based on geologic evidence of past events, the scientists said. Such eruptions would dwarf those of Mount St. Helens, Krakatoa, Pinatubo and anything else going back dozens of millennia.

"Super-eruptions are up to hundreds of times larger than these," said Stephen Self of the United Kingdom's (U.K.) Open University.

From: http://www.livescience.com/environment/050308_super_volcano.html

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano

Vog — volcanic smog — kills plants, casts a haze over Hawaii

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080506/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_hawaii_volcanic_gas;_ylt=Ake38EdfrvN.18I9SLQekVWs0NUE
is a newspaper article on the effects of volcanic smoke on crops and plants. World make a good adventure seed for many different low tech worlds.

Pictographic Language from Easter Island

This is a description of a strange/unique pictographic language found only on Easter Island:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
I suspect that there are lots of good RPG ideas here!

Traveller Adventures from Zhodani Base

http://zho.berka.com/amber/ as a couple of adventures on it.

Traveller Adventures from Stellar Reaches

http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/issues/
is a link to about 8 issues of Stellar Reaches, a Traveller fanzine. Each one seems to have more than one ready-to-run adventure in it.

Tanzania's President condemns witchdoctors who kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope it will bring prosperity

Now this is an adventure seed that could be used in all kinds of settings!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080403/od_nm/witchcraft_dc;_ylt=AhbEtumoxVY0CCzaQwQQCnqs0NUE