One of the most enduring mysteries within archaeology revolves around the identity of Punt, an otherworldly “land of plenty” revered by the ancient Egyptians.
Researchers have long created facial approximations of people from the past. But Live Science asks: How accurate are these reconstructions? https://flip.it/FeTFZX #Science#DNA#History
To celebrate 36 years of SDF we've made a set of 5 postcards from high resolution scans of photos from the 1990s and a screenshot from our Plan 9 server
Owen Jones: "With growing public fury at the horrors unleashed by Israel against Gaza, the cheerleaders of this crime have a strategy. Those who oppose it are to be harassed, intimidated, fired. Here we document what's happening, who has been targeted - and why we must fight it."
The SDF Incompatible Timesharing System Boot Camp begins today! Learn about ITS in a friendly communal environment with a new TURIST orientation and self-paced challenges announced on Sunday!
I look forward to the day when we have to explain the oil industry to the next generation in the same way that our history teachers explain that yes, it used to be common to use lead in makeup, to smoke on planes, and to teach workers using radioactive paint to lick their brushes.
It reminds me of this interactive #earth time travel site. Plug in the name of a city, then go back in various increments all the way to 750 million years ago, and see where the city was.
Florida’s revised #history standards includes this:
“Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Two anthropologists explain this as a deeply entrenched ‘switching mechanism’, where “the story about the horrors of the slave system is transformed into a story about opportunity, success and the American dream.”
I got a rather special gift today from the Japanese team: the first phone shipping with Opera in Japan, which was also the first phone in Japan to ship with a full Internet browser.
The Kyocere AH-K3001V.
People were in line to buy the phone, with the line going far into the street. This was in 2004, so long before the iPhone was launched.
The phone had a special Opera button and there were billboards on the local trains marketing the phone as the first phone to provide full Internet access.
This is part of the special relationship we have with Japan and still have, but now with Vivaldi.