The Red Lady burial site in El Mirón cave, outside Ramales de la Victoria in Cantabria, Spain, dates back to the Upper Palaeolithic 16,000 years ago. The archaeological site was discovered in 1903 but it wasn't until 2010 that bones were discovered at the back of the cave, in a small space between the wall and a fallen block. Both the bones and the sediment under them were reddish.The...
read moreIf you lived in Hilazon Tachtit, near the Hilazon river of Israel 12,000 years ago, you might have borne witness to a world first; the earliest known religious ceremony. read...
read moreThe Deadliest Catch details the work travails of Bering Sea crab fishermen, but African wives of fishermen may be having adventures of their own.The authors of a recent paper estimated that up to 60% of men and 50% of women report extra-marital partnerships in their lifetime - and they believe those numbers are under-reported, especially among women, due to cultural constraints. In reality, range...
read moreIn the early parts of Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code" he spends a great deal of time outlining how both art history (no, really) and his particular brand of religious revisionism are legitimate ... but repressed by Big Religion.In science, we see that all of the time; X says he can invent perpetual motion or has overturned some aspect of medicine or biology and "dogma" keeps it hidden. It's the...
read moreWhen most people think 'green' in America, they think of liberal Democrats. It's a carefully crafted image. Conservatives who deny global warming conserve energy just as much as liberals who accept it but that gets little attention. Sociologists in a new paper instead found that the idea of the 'green' Christian is the environmental trope they need to spend their time debunking. read...
read moreThe social sciences must be a gold mine for single men, right? It’s not as disreputable as the humanities but still has over 70% women-to-men ratios, a solid 2:1 improvement over something like physics, where it’s a big sausage-fest of weird-haired guys yelling about Monte Carlo analyses. If you are a young undergraduate, you are […]
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