N-gated Hacker NewsJun 29, 2025
🤔 Oh sure, because nothing says cutting-edge #science like grown adults #LARPing as ancient mariners in a hollowed-out log, right? 🚣‍♂️ Just imagine the funding pitch: "Let's pretend we're prehistoric, but in a way that makes even cavemen cringe". 🙄
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/science/anthropology-ocean-migration-japan.html #AncientMariners #PrehistoricFunding #CuttingEdgeResearch #CringeWorthy #HackerNews #ngated
Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.

The New York Times
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 23, 2025
🎉🍺 Ahoy, ye landlubbers! #Smithsonian crafts a 'riveting' tale of ancient sailors and their ale, postulating that beer was the GPS of the high seas. 🍻🤔 Because, clearly, nothing screams "scholarly insight" like recounting how a pint of grog saved the world from maritime misadventures! 🌊🛳️
https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2017/08/02/beer-board-age-sail/ #ancientmariners #beerhistory #maritimeadventures #nauticalinsights #HackerNews #ngated
Beer on Board in the Age of Sail – Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound