1. Some scientists decided to basically duct tape a camera to an elephant's tusk. This is one of the resulting photographs. I don't know why that amuses me so much. It might be the idea that the boar is staring back at the elephant-camera hybrid and wondering what the fuck is going on.
2. There have been excavations going on at Orcas island, and I wasn't invited!
3. Come on, people. Surely we've progressed beyond this.
At least the guy is doing something reasonable about it and not just throwing lawsuits left and right:
Wade said he wants to make sure all the employees at the restaurant receive disability awareness training,
He said, "Little People of America is going to write a letter on my behalf stating that they do some type of disability awareness training."
According to the franchise owner's statement, all her employees will receive additional training to ensure they serve all customers with respect.
4. Again. Aren't we past this yet?
During an August 1998 episode of the show, Turner reminded Hannity that were it not for the graciousness of the white man, “black people would still be swinging on trees in Africa[.]”
And then:
We’re teetering at the edge of believing that you’re a secret society, a massive collection of sleeper cells just waiting for your chance to do serious harm to the rest of us. You’ve made it possible for us to believe that.
Um, I think the paranoid bigots who want to believe that already believe it, regardless of what black people say or do.
5. Yet another record-breaking find for paleoanthropologists. When is a hominid fossil not a significant finding lately? I don't get it.
But anyway, this one is significant because:
"It is the oldest human fossil yet found in Western Europe," said co-author Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, director of Spain's National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH) in Burgos.
I'm a fan of how (relatively) thoroughly the article covers the dating methods used:
The Spanish researchers used three different techniques to date the new fossils: palaeomagnetism, cosmogenic nuclide dating and biostratigraphy.
Also, re: the chart at the bottom of the article, I'm a bit confused. Last I remembered, homo erectus was thought to be direct descendants of homo sapiens, not related side-branch? Maybe I'm mis-remembering.
Another decent job at explaining dating methods:
The complex of fossils allowed scientists to use a variety of methods to confirm the age of the fossils, including magnetic analysis, radioactive dating, and geologic studies of the clustered bones and artifacts—a necessity because the dating of human fossils remains a controversial area of research.
2. There have been excavations going on at Orcas island, and I wasn't invited!
3. Come on, people. Surely we've progressed beyond this.
At least the guy is doing something reasonable about it and not just throwing lawsuits left and right:
Wade said he wants to make sure all the employees at the restaurant receive disability awareness training,
He said, "Little People of America is going to write a letter on my behalf stating that they do some type of disability awareness training."
According to the franchise owner's statement, all her employees will receive additional training to ensure they serve all customers with respect.
4. Again. Aren't we past this yet?
During an August 1998 episode of the show, Turner reminded Hannity that were it not for the graciousness of the white man, “black people would still be swinging on trees in Africa[.]”
And then:
We’re teetering at the edge of believing that you’re a secret society, a massive collection of sleeper cells just waiting for your chance to do serious harm to the rest of us. You’ve made it possible for us to believe that.
Um, I think the paranoid bigots who want to believe that already believe it, regardless of what black people say or do.
5. Yet another record-breaking find for paleoanthropologists. When is a hominid fossil not a significant finding lately? I don't get it.
But anyway, this one is significant because:
"It is the oldest human fossil yet found in Western Europe," said co-author Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, director of Spain's National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH) in Burgos.
I'm a fan of how (relatively) thoroughly the article covers the dating methods used:
The Spanish researchers used three different techniques to date the new fossils: palaeomagnetism, cosmogenic nuclide dating and biostratigraphy.
Also, re: the chart at the bottom of the article, I'm a bit confused. Last I remembered, homo erectus was thought to be direct descendants of homo sapiens, not related side-branch? Maybe I'm mis-remembering.
Another decent job at explaining dating methods:
The complex of fossils allowed scientists to use a variety of methods to confirm the age of the fossils, including magnetic analysis, radioactive dating, and geologic studies of the clustered bones and artifacts—a necessity because the dating of human fossils remains a controversial area of research.
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