Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever [...]
Anamorphic global warming, or manmade global warming for the retards, I’ve noticed has been slowly changing to “Climate Change” in the media. I guess they are trying to throw people off that they are just fucking wrong. I love blog posts like the one below. As shown by the recent IPCC scandals [...]
This is a pretty cool story. I had always heard that dogs had an intelligence of 4 years old but even so, that means dogs are pretty freaking smart! I wonder if they will stop eating them in China now…
Researchers have found that dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and [...]
A new study indicates that increases in mobility, urbanisation, and cross-population mating over the last century have substantially reduced inbreeding, and left a distinctive trace in the genome of modern Americans.Genetic Future : The decline of inbreeding, written in our genes
Ed Young posts today about a new fish discovered that seems to support Dollo’s Law
Since I seem to be covering Cyborgs today, I’m going to throw in another article about cyborgs and their quest to take over the planet.
Selva on The Scientific Indian writes today about his Bioware wishlist.
I’m good with the increased vision and the better memory but the legs…pass. I want to be able to see [...]
I don’t know about you but after having the laser surgery and going through the whole “am I going to end up blind” from it, things like this are exciting and wonderful.
It’s not long, maybe 50 years where a significant portion of blindness sufferers will be able to get their sight back.
p.s. I searched [...]
Well we “discovered” the pink bottlenose dolphin the other day and I love dolphins…they’re delicious (especially with albacore tuna and some mayo on rye bread). I figured a little bit more of the weird but cool bottlenose dolphin postings should be in order.
I’ve been fascinated by the fact that whales have vestigial bones in [...]
You have to see this shit to believe it!! It’s fucking pink!! It’s a pink bottle nosed dolphin! I bet his part of the continental shelf is beautifully furnished. I wonder what his take on this season’s line is going to be.
A rare pink Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, has resurfaced two [...]
I’ve been predicting this for 10 years at the very least and any science fiction fan worth their salt knew this was coming. I personally, aside from the ethical considerations and the pro-life nutbags, think it’s exciting. Do I want a blond haired, blue eyed, Arian monster with no health problems? Fuck [...]
I was actually glad to hear this report on NPR this morning. There have been some that theorize that one of the reasons Neanderthals disappeared was they were interbred into extinction with Homo SapiensW at the time. Now that the genes have been sequenced, it would seem that theory can finally be put [...]
Nothing witty, snarky or stupid to say here. Just interesting.
We know the fossil record underestimates diversity at least a little, and we know that forested environments in Africa tend to be underrepresented. Given this, the diversity of Miocene apes may have been rather impressive, because there is a fairly high diversity in what we [...]
Who knew poop could be so interesting?
The oldest known human hairs could be the strands discovered in fossil hyena poop found in a South African cave, a new study hints.
It’s not clear which species the newfound human hairs are from, since the human fossil record for this time span is exceedingly limited, the researchers [...]
Very exciting for all the veteran’s coming home from Iraq that are missing limbs.
Todd Kuiken and colleagues at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago first reported the technique in a single patient in 2007, and now they have tested it in several other patients. The patients could all successfully control the advanced prosthetic, which features motorized [...]
AFP: Malaysian scientists find stone tools ‘oldest in Southeast Asia’
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysian archaeologists have announced the discovery of stone tools they believe are more than 1.8 million years old and the earliest evidence of human ancestors in Southeast Asia.
“This is the earliest evidence of Paleolithic culture in the Southeast Asian region,” said Mokhtar [...]
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