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We have reached peak archaeology. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the writers just couldn't bear it.

We have reached peak archaeology. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know that you could necessarily develop the wheelbarrow without first having the concept of the wheeled cart.

We have reached peak archaeology. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wheeled carts are not very practical without draught animals to pull them. And the one place they had animals like that, in South America, llamas and the civilizations that utilized them lived in the mountains where wheeled carts aren't practical either.

We have reached peak archaeology. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (11 children)

They say that Native Americans never developed the wheel. They clearly did. For sick dog skateboard tricks.

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Ancient Peruvian whale may be most massive creature recorded (www.dw.com)
The berries are red and very sweet. If it isn't currant, I'm in trouble. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rest in peace in peace?

Amber Fossil Shows 'Hell Ant' Was Unlike Anything Alive Today in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I have. Fire ants. It's not something I would recommend.

Why the Big Bang might not have been the beginning of our Universe in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I just spent 5 minutes on Google because I misread your first line as 'rips sock bong hit' and I was trying to figure out what the hell a sock bong was.

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Amber Fossil Shows 'Hell Ant' Was Unlike Anything Alive Today (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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NASA launches its own streaming platform (gizmodo.com)
Are there any edible Houseplants besides herbs worth growing? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Tomatoes can be grown pretty successfully indoors. Also prickly pear.

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Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
Is the Universe 13.8 or 26.7 billion years old? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No. Karaoke battle.

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Mammals may have hunted down dinosaurs for dinner, rare fossil suggests (apnews.com)
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Scientists propose Webb Telescope has detected stars powered by dark matter (gizmodo.com)
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New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed (phys.org)
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NASA's Perseverance rover finds preserved organic matter on Mars (gizmodo.com)
 

Note: Organic matter does not mean life. It is a precursor to life. It does make the possibility of life on ancient Mars more likely.

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New 3D Visualization Highlights 5,000 Galaxies Revealed by Webb in CEERS Survey (webbtelescope.org)
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Just astounding.

The perception of silence in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's an article about it in the New York Times which apparently goes into much more detail, but I don't have a subscription- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/science/silence-sound-hear.html

It is excerpted in this Slashdot post, however, and that may give you enough information to understand it better: https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/10/2343221/silence-is-a-sound-you-hear-study-suggests

To sum up, it's not about total silence, it's about perceiving gaps in louder sounds as "sound" rather than the lack of sound.

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The perception of silence (www.pnas.org)
 

Do we only hear sounds? Or can we also hear silence? These questions are the subject of a centuries-old philosophical debate between two camps: the perceptual view (we literally hear silence), and the cognitive view (we only judge or infer silence). Here, we take an empirical approach to resolve this theoretical controversy. We show that silences can “substitute” for sounds in event-based auditory illusions.

I don’t have access to the full paper (I probably wouldn’t understand it anyway), but the idea that we can “hear” silence is pretty mind-blowing to me.

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Scientists make ibuprofen and other common painkillers from paper industry waste (www.engadget.com)
 

Were you aware that ibuprofen is made from petroleum byproducts? I had absolutely no idea.

A 30-Mile Slab of Granite May Be Hiding in an Ancient Volcano on the Moon in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Or is it.... EeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeEEEEEEeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEEEE

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A 30-Mile Slab of Granite May Be Hiding in an Ancient Volcano on the Moon (www.inverse.com)
Supercomputer Will Help Decide whether to Block the Sun in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I remember how in The Matrix movies, humans blocked out the sun to stop the computers from taking over. Looks like we're going to ask them whether or not that's a good plan first in our timeline.

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