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So cute!
I was reading how Homo floresiensis lived alongside Komodo dragons, giant rats, and other giant lizards which made me search for images of the Flores giant rat, leading to above. These animals are so cute I could almost cry. When I read about the mythical species Orang Pendek it also makes me cry to think…
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Seima-Turbino Phenomenon
Was reading about the Mongolian language and some linguists consider it part of a large language family called Altaic. Here is a map of Y-chrmosome (male) haplogroup migrations: There are some really trippy things which immediately stand out in this map. Look at the migration route for group C (then C3) for example. It starts…
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I wish this guy would come under the dome and give a presentation
An archaeologist went to China and visited a museum, expecting to find the usual stuff like pottery. But inside there was a room with mummies and, looking at them, he was blown away. They were mummies of a Proto-Indo-European tribe who – unlike most of their kin who went westward from the steppes of Central…
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Persian sounds like PIE
Today I was watching a video clip in Persian about the recent snow in Iran. Here is a sample of someone speaking in reconstructed PIE: I did not know this, but the word Iran comes from the word Aryan which originally referred to members of one of the ancient tribes which came to settle in…
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Extra-long lasting Scotch tape
It turns out that most Scotch tape rolls are only 300 inches. But they actually make ones that are 1,100 inches. You can find it even cheaper by searching online – sometimes for almost the same price as a 300 inch roll.
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Switching to MS Office Outlook
Contact management and calendaring are two of the most fundamental things people do with information appliances. These are so core that I think they lay at the center of working with an information appliance. Over the past years we see how there have been attempts to usurp the formidable status of the office suite –…
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What is happening?
Record-breaking cold spells in many places, last year there was a severe drought that impacted a vast swathe of the Midwest. The year before record flooding. Right now in the west is a serious drought and already some communities are under pressure due to water shortage. Is this all the kind of clusterfuck which James…