But how far back does A1 go?
Steak Dinners Go Back 2.5 Million Years : Discovery News:
A new fossil skull of a bull confirms that beef has been “what’s for dinner” since the dawn of humans.The discovery of a new “missing link” species of bull dating to a million years ago in Eritrea pushes back the beef steak dinner to the very dawn of humans and cattle.
Liking This
Andrew Witty, Glaxo’s C.E.O., Takes a Role in World Health .
Andrew Witty is not quite as young or as buff as Anderson Cooper, but he does do interviews in shirtsleeves from the slums of Nairobi and rural hospitals in Uganda.
What makes that unusual is that Mr. Witty is not a roving CNN anchor, but the chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s second-largest drug company.
Pictures: Dinosaur True Colors Revealed by Feather Find
Pictures: Dinosaur True Colors Revealed by Feather Find.
This is just too cool. Dinosaurs with orange stripes. Be cooler if they were racing stripes, but this will definitely do.
Full disclosure: I did NOT shoot this. I would love to know how they did.
Reality is STILL cooler than Fiction!
In celebration of Sir Isaac Newton’s long-ago birthday, HMNS has a neat little video from the BBC about the Apocryphal Apple here
Thanks, guys. Learn something new every day. Far too often, of late, it seems to be that something I learned previously was wrong. This is MOST annoying.
Happy Birthday, Isaac Newton! (Wherever you are…)
Not that this applies to any of us, but still
It’s a thing to keep in mind as we get closer to that fuzzy danger zone called “growing up.”
How to Train the Aging Brain – NYTimes.com
The brain, as it traverses middle age, gets better at recognizing the central idea, the big picture. If kept in good shape, the brain can continue to build pathways that help its owner recognize patterns and, as a consequence, see significance and even solutions much faster than a young person can.
Device spells doom for superbugs
More neat tech stuff:
Well, there went history…
Just when it looks like we’re getting things figured out…
Turns out we don’t really KNOW squat.
Oldest “Human” Skeleton Found–Disproves “Missing Link”.
The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.
So… still lots of things to learn….
The Virtues Of Technology….
The problem with being both a technology enthusiast and a human in today’s world is simply that more and more of the USES to which the modern miracles are put tend to go in directions that are less and less useful or worthwhile than one could wish. It’s a human failing, not a technological one – given a choice between new ways to accomplish things, or new ways to amuse ourselves, it seems we’ll take easy entertainment far more often than not. (For the record, I’m as guilty of this as the next guy; I’d like to think I’m getting better, but it’s a constant battle.)
This, however, is just VERY cool, and makes me feel somewhat better about the degree to which electronic and electrical gadgets have replaced education, reflection, and imagination.
A Linguist Preserves Languages With Digital Tools
In its new digital form, this kind of research is more accessible. It allows larger projects to share the world’s linguistic heritage with a wider public of teachers and learners, including, when possible, the original speakers.
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Mornin’… I think.
Philosophically, of course, there is much to consider here.
And I DO intend to consider these things, if I ever stop laughing.
Dunno why; it’s one of those mornings. I seem to have gotten some defective caffeine recently; it’s not working as well as it once did…
Or perhaps I just need to use more OF it.
Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female
via National Geographic News Service:
Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female.
Hmmm. Not really surprising, but I’m betting this is going to rev up the discussion in a few places. But seriously… the question isn’t “why not?” but rather, “why did we assume not?” and “what difference would this make in our assessments of early social development and prehistoric societies?”
Questions for paleo-anthropologists, I guess.
The answer may well be “none, and that’s an ignorant question…” I’m just starting to study these things, so have neither opinions nor insights to offer.
Still, is neat.
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