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A Radical Innovation Helped Archaic Humans Survive a Harsh Ice Age
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https://www.sciencealert.com/a-radical-innovation-helped-archaic-humans-survive-a-harsh-ice-age
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A Radical Innovation Helped Archaic Humans Survive a Harsh Ice Age

A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the bitter cold by developing a sophisticated stone-tool industry, according to a new study of a crystal-studded rib bone found in China.

ScienceAlert

Scientia 20h ago

A Strange Pattern in Certain Words Seems to Boost Your Reading Ability
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https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-pattern-in-certain-words-seems-to-boost-your-reading-ability
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A Strange Pattern in Certain Words Seems to Boost Your Reading Ability

Think about a word that looks like its meaning.

ScienceAlert

Scientia 1d ago

Scientists Found a Notebook in a Medieval Toilet, And It's Still Legible
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https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-notebook-in-a-medieval-toilet-and-its-still-legible
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Scientists Found a Notebook in a Medieval Toilet, And It's Still Legible

If you've ever stared in dismay as your phone slips out of your grasp and into the gaping white throat of your toilet, don't worry – there's precedent dating back hundreds of years.

ScienceAlert

Weekend Stories 1d ago

#Lucy is one of the most famous fossils in #paleoanthropology. Discovered in 1974 in #Ethiopia, she is a partial skeleton of an early #hominin species, #Australopithecus afarensis, dating back around 3.2 million years. Her anatomy reveals a mix of ape-and human-like traits, providing crucial insights into the evolutionary path that led to modern #humans. I was lucky enough to see her replica at the #SenckenbergMuseum in #Frankfurt:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-05-17_lucy

#WeekendStories #history #Museum

tultican 2d ago

The Story of a Fourth Graduation - Outlasting the mean girl is precious. Great story! https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/the-story-of-a-fourth-graduation/ #Humans

The Story of a Fourth Graduation

I have had some eventful ends of school years for a variety of reasons. There were the two years that I was leaving the state (1993, to move from Louisiana to Georgia to teach, and 1998, when I lef…

deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv 2d ago

🦧🦍🐒🦧🦍🐒✊✋👋🖖🖐️👌✌️🚶🏿🚶🏿🚶🏼‍♀️🚶‍♂️🦍🐒🦧🦍🐒🦧🦍🐒💁🏼‍♀️*New insights into how the human hand evolved from our ape-like ancestors👉

#Apes #humans #hands

New insights into how the human hand evolved from our ape-like ancestors
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-insights-human-evolved-ape-ancestors.html

New insights into how the human hand evolved from our ape-like ancestors

The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours can shape tools, manipulate objects, and perform detailed tasks requiring great dexterity and precision. The evolutionary basis of this unique ability has long been debated, but a new anatomical clue to its origin has just been revealed in a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Phys.org

Scientia 2d ago

The Great Pyramid Has Survived 4,600 Years. A Strange Feature May Help Explain Why.
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https://www.sciencealert.com/the-great-pyramid-has-survived-4600-years-a-strange-feature-may-help-explain-why
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The Great Pyramid Has Survived 4,600 Years. A Strange Feature May Help Explain Why.

Somehow, while the rest of the ancient Egyptian world has crumbled around it, the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza remains standing, even after 4,600 years.

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earthling 2d ago

@johntinker
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4. The Macro Systems and the "Animal Part" of Us

"The humans among us must free ourselves from certain of the macro systems which seem to have emerged from the animal part of who we are. What once made us strong can now make us weak."

As animals, humans have primal instincts for survival, tribalism, and dominance over resources or enemies. Historically, those ruthless, aggressive traits helped our species survive and become "strong."

#humans
#instincts
#survival