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Posted by SGJ Posted on January 25, 2023 0 Comments

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Humans have been wearing bear skins for at least 300,000 years – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Danny DeVito Is A Revered Comedy Legend, But It’s Past Time For Him To Be Acknowledged As A Vibrant, Important Director | Decider

https://www.emcarroll.com/comics/meat/

https://www.barrelhousemag.com/onlinelit/2017/10/4/final-girl-slumber-party

Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white | Madison365

Amateur archaeologist unco…

Best of the year so far: for December

Posted by SGJ Posted on January 1, 2023 0 Comments

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but Neil Diamond, who retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, just had a Broadway show of him open and it at the opening night he did this pic.twitter.com/eJ02YUAzr5
— Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) December 6, 2022

Blackfeet: we’ve been here forever, man. And we’re not going anywhere, except forward.

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Posted by SGJ Posted on December 30, 2022 0 Comments

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Work from 1616 is ‘the first ever science fiction novel’ | Science fiction books | The Guardian

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/encino-man-oral-history

https://mashable.com/article/snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska-why

https://www.gq.com/story/dont-fear-the-reaper-more-cowbell-oral-history

https://www.theonion.com/archaeologists-discover-more-old-shit-that-sucks-1848400846

Scientists Might Have Just Found Whe…

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Posted by SGJ Posted on December 8, 2022 0 Comments

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https://twitter.com/cliffponca/status/1594033020092133377?s=46&t=DHCrhN_mNNS4JnLcMfS3ag

https://themaplemoon.substack.com/p/20-questions-with-monica-drake

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-struggle-to-unearth-the-worlds-first-author

https://apple.news/ABBhSCt7iTM-LXXdPOHSnFA

https://www.sciencealert.com/an-ai-found-an-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome

Woman’s name and tiny sketc…

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Posted by SGJ Posted on November 17, 2022 0 Comments

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Interview: Walter Hill on Dead for a Dollar

Tunnel discovered under Egyptian temple may lead to Cleopatra’s tomb, archaeologist says – CNN Style

This Guy Sends His Girlfriend Photoshopped Photos Whenever She Asks If Their Kids Are OK

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/

https://www.kelpjournal.com/post/fiction-saving-face

https://www.bbc.com/…

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Posted by SGJ Posted on November 2, 2022 0 Comments

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https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/33411764/Jones_Done_to_Death.pdf

‘Forgotten archive’ of medieval books and manuscripts discovered in Romanian church – Medievalists.net

Asteroid that formed Vredefort crater bigger than previously believed: Researchers have provided a more accurate simulation of the impact that formed Earth’s largest crater two billion years ago — ScienceDaily

Ancie…

Birdlandia

Posted by SGJ Posted on October 3, 2022 0 Comments

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regular ordinary day — art by sebastian smarowski pic.twitter.com/MvpD8H3c0m
— Michael T. Cisco (@MichaelTCisco) August 26, 2022

Remarkably, this prehistoric 5,000 year-old dagger is made from rock crystal. Found with ivory hilt & sheath in high-status tomb near Seville, in Spain, it’s more than 20 cm long (8 inches) & displays an exceptionally high level of technical skillhttps://t.co/27FqpvgWTP pic.twitter.com/dozQdUnZ47
— Journ

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Posted by SGJ Posted on September 18, 2022 0 Comments

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So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun.

It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period – not more than 150, 200 years – before dying out, leaving loads of legacy words in its wake.
— David Thomas Moore (@dtmooreeditor) September 12, 2022

https://www.newscientist.com/article/0-octonions-the-strange-maths-that-could-unite-the-laws…