Tag: history
All the articles with the tag "history".
The Case of the Missing Ancestor - The Denisovans
National Geographic has a great article on the discovery and further research related to our cousins the Denisovans . Everyone knows about the Neandarthals, and at this point I think most people know …
Game theory wiz kids
Just in case I didn't already think Nixon and Kissinger were complete mental bastards: The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam Nixon decided to try something new: t…
Discovery
Some folks claim to have found a Bosnian stairs-like pyramid , about 12,000 years old. Photos of the research here . Scientific sleuth cracks code to $54,000 treasure Ants in the Amazon rain forest la…
The Long Now's Orrery
I've been meaning to post about this for a while, but finally got around to it after reading at Boing Boing that the Long Now project unveiled their prototype, the Orrery clock . Jacob Appelbaum has s…
History and UE
Human footprints discovered beside an ancient Mexican lake have been dated to 40,000 years ago . Hopefully this will finally make people take a closer look at the Clovis and pre-Clovis viewpoints . Oh…
History, exploration, and geeks.
Great urban exploration site: Russian photos and text of abandoned soviet infrastructure Long-Lost Da Vinci Masterpiece Found Behind Palazzo Walls "A high-tech art sleuth finds a hollow space behind a…
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Exploration: The photos are older (2002), but the subject is quite fascinating - Jason Levine explores the high line . I had never heard of the high line , but I don't live in NYC. The high line is an…
John Prine and John Spreckels' Legacy
(All photos for this are posted here ) Friday, May 13th. Anna and I went to see John Prine at Spreckels Theatre . I wasn't very familiar with his music, but Anna convinced me I would like him. She was…
SLO, Paypal, and cow dung.
Anna and I are taking a long weekend and going to head up the coast in a convertible to SLO. The coast is fun by itself, but we will also be going to check out the Pasa Robles Wine Fest . We went in 2…
Hobbits
Wow, this is pretty amazing stuff: Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world... The 18,000-year-ol…