Ancient hominin Lucy may have walked alongside yet another bipedal hominin species.
“I know that my only chance now is to be reclassified”
“The Stateless Person’s Tale” & “The Arriver’s Tale,” as told to Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah (previously). “Delia’s Return: The Migration and Deportation of an Unaccompanied Child” by Lauren Heidbrink, Delia, and Gabriela Afable (American Anth…
The proof’s in the poop: Austrians have loved beer, blue cheese for 2,700 years
They also ate primarily cereal grains, supplemented with beans, fruits, nuts, or meat.
Capsule of 1765 air reveals ancient histories hidden under Antarctic ice
Polar Zero exhibition in Glasgow features sculpture encasing air extracted from start of Industrial RevolutionAn ampoule of Antarctic air from the year 1765 forms the centrepiece of a new exhibition that reveals the hidden histories contained in polar …
「未来」というコモンズ。〈死〉と〈想像力〉が導く、将来世代への責任 ：磯野真穂 × 戸谷洋志
いまを生きるわたしたちと100年後、1,000年後を生きる人々は時間軸を共有しえない。しかし、科学技術文明において現代世代は未来世代を滅ぼすことができる。たとえその両者で合意形成できずとも、「未来」をコモンズとして遺していくことは可能ではないか ── 。人類学者・磯野真穂、哲学者・戸谷洋志というふたりの俊英が、この壮大なスケールの問いに向き合った（雑誌『WIRED』日本版VOL.42から転載）
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Genetics reveal how humans island-hopped to settle remote Pacific
Study using DNA analysis reveals not only are statues on these distant islands connected, but inhabitants tooEaster Island’s famous megaliths have relatives on islands thousands of miles to the north and west, and so did the people who created them, a …
Plainte – Chekoua – Lamentation / Épreuve – Mihna – Hardship
Chris Silver (Gharamaphone): “In May 2020, I posted Sariza Cohen’s stunning recording of ‘أَشْكُوا الْغَـرَامَ’ (Ashku al-gharam) [Soundcloud], released … in 1938. This is the other side of that record [Soundcloud]. It is no less remarkable. Here the…
Constructed Worlds, Group Beliefs and Narrative Consciousness
Three Simple Policy Heuristics – “The most important thing to understand is this: Harm ripples, kindness ripples. People you hurt go on to hurt other people. People who are treated with kindness become better people, or more prosperous people, and go o…
The Big Death
New study says humans killed Neanderthals by having sex with them. A rare blood disorder discovered in Neanderthal babies was likely the result of breeding with humans, according to a new study. […] This disorder would have made it difficult for the…
Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets
The land mass that linked Britain to continental Europe was rich in early human life until it floodedThe idea of a “lost Atlantis” under the North Sea connecting Britain by land to continental Europe had been imagined by HG Wells in the late 19th centu…