Flipboard Science Desk
Who were the victims of Maya sacrifice? Ancient DNA reveals an unexpected finding.
CNN reports on a new study from the journal Nature: https://flip.it/Iyq0Da
Here's the original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07509-7
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Flipboard Science Desk
A 4,000-year-old Greek hilltop site mystifies archaeologists. It could spell trouble for new airport plans.
AP reports on the find "from Crete’s Minoan civilization, famous for its sumptuous palaces, flamboyant art and enigmatic writing system. Resembling a huge car wheel from above, the ruins of the labyrinthine, 1,800-square-meter (19,000-square-foot) building came to light during a recent dig by archaeologists."
Alexander
Flipboard Science Desk
Pompeii gladiator drawings suggest children saw "extreme form" of violence.
CNN reports on the latest discovery in the residential sector of the archaeological park in Italy: https://flip.it/-Xv-7b
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Jake in the desert
James Webb detects earliest known black hole merger 740 million years after Big Bang
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-telescope-detects-earliest-known-black-hole-merger-just-740-million-years-after-the-big-bang-180984381
Flipboard Science Desk
Millennia ago, Neanderthals and humans met, mingled and mated. And your health may depend on DNA from these long-lost ancestors. Live Science explains how "in some places in our genome, we're more Neanderthal than we are human.” https://flip.it/qiJdOD
#Science #Humans #Neanderthal #Health #History
Flipboard Culture Desk
How did vitamins come to be called after letters of the alphabet? National Geographic's Erin Blakemore looks at the history and discovery of these vital dietary components, and why vitamin K bucks the naming trend.
#Science #History @histodons #ScienceHistory #Vitamins #Nutrition
micchiato
#History is a great teacher.
“Cops raided Berkeley's occupation for South African divestment in April 1985, arresting 156. #Students reoccupied and declared a strike. 10,000 joined. Occupations started again in the fall. The camp was raided and rebuilt again until they won. This isn't over. It's barely begun.” #police
https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1786118846308569301?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg
Jo Jitsu
Democracy was never meant to be run by #election bc it is too easily corrupted by oligarchs.
It was always meant to be by sortition & there is a longer history to that & it's success, than this version of 'democratic' elections which is failing us & fallen to #oligarchs as was known & expected by Athenians.
Aristotle said #elections were aristocratic & we're seeing that right down to dynasties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition#History
#politics #government #sortition #democracy #history #democratic
CarveHerName
#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.
She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.
UFO FEED
https://www.ufofeed.com/66245/video-of-flying-humanoid-goes-viral-but-is-there-anything-anomalous-about-it-3/ Video of ‘flying humanoid’ goes viral, but is there anything anomalous about it? #AlternativeHistory #History
Flipboard Science Desk
Researchers have built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica and to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.” Turns out your morning coffee may have been 600,000 years old. The AP tells us how a study aimed at protecting these coffee plants from climate change and pests also revealed more about how and when they came to be. https://flip.it/TkO9HC #Science #Coffee #Plants #History
Aral Balkan
Can’t believe it’s been 16 years since I organised the world’s first virtual web conference (it was called <head>, it took place over 3 days, had 4 simultaneous tracks, over 70 speakers, and local in-world conference hubs in London, Manchester, Brigthon, Fribourg, and San Francisco, as well as as pre-conference party and a separate virtual hub in Second Life).
https://web.archive.org/web/20120420021405/http://www.headconference.com/
#headConference #virtualConference #webConference #web #conference #history
New Amauta
Let's talk about Natives on this Trans Day of Visibility, like Kauxuma Nupika (c.1780-1837), an Indigenous AFAB Kutenai who divorced his Canadian husband and then declared himself male. As a trans Native, Nupika became both a warrior and prophet, predicting the arrivals of Europeans to Kutenai lands amnd trying to forge peace between nations like the Salish and the Blackfeet
Flipboard Science Desk
The ancient Romans had an alternative to daylight savings time.
BBC News reports: "Twice a year, around a third of the world's countries perform a hotly-debated ritual: meddling with time to create longer summer evenings and brighter winter mornings."
Flipboard Science Desk
Could a supervolcano wipe humans out?
@Mashable reports: "A new study shows that after an especially powerful supervolcano eruption some 74,000 years ago (the largest in the last 2 million years), foraging humans in modern-day Ethiopia survived."
Flipboard Science Desk
Timbre can affect what harmony is music to our ears.
Science News explains: "Instruments’ unique voices may explain why different cultures developed their own musical scales."
Flipboard Science Desk
Ancient stone tools found in Ukraine date to over 1 million years ago, and may be oldest in Europe.
AP reports: "The chipped stones, deliberately fashioned from volcanic rock, were excavated from a quarry in Korolevo in the 1970s. Archaeologists used new methods to date the layers of sedimentary rock surrounding the tools to more than 1 million years old."
Flipboard Science Desk
The decimal point is 150 years older than previously thought, medieval manuscript reveals.
@Smithsonianmag reports: "A Venetian merchant used the mathematical symbol while calculating the positions of planets between 1441 and 1450."
nixCraft 🐧
Apache web server feels like a LOTR film intro. #unix #linux #opensource #bsd #history
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