Simon H. aus B.
@simoncito.bsky.social
Kein Experte für gar nichts. "Die Löcher sind die Hauptsache an einem Sieb." aufgeschlaut.de
Da, wo viele Mammuts von Gravettien-Jägern geschlachtet wurden, überwiegen klar die Weibchen. Weil die in Herden zogen und offenbar leichter zu finden oder erbeuten waren. Das legt diese Studie nahe.
Love Dalén@lovedalen.bsky.social · 6d ago🦣🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦣 What was the cause of all those mass accumulations of mammoth bones that have been found across Europe and Siberia??? Natural traps or humans? Answers here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Ach, großartig: zwei neue Tierfigürchen aus dem Hohle Fels, 40.000 Jahre alt. Vor allem der brütende Vogel ist toll. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Zwei Vogelfiguren sind „Fund des Jahres“ aus der UNESCO-Welterbehöhle Hohle Fels
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · last wk.WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years. The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or...🧵1/2
Eine meiner historischen Bildungslücken war der spanische Bürgerkrieg. Gestern bin ich über diese zweiteilige ARTE-Doku aus Frankreich gestolpert, die zumindest eine solide Grundlage der Ereignisse von 1936 bis 1939 und dann bis in die 50er Jahre liefert. www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC...
Der Spanische Bürgerkrieg - Geschichte | ARTE
Der Spanische Bürgerkrieg und die nachfolgenden Jahrzehnte der Diktatur bilden ein dunkles Kapitel der spanischen Geschichte. Mehr als 400.000 Menschen fielen dem Krieg zum Opfer, Zehntausende wurden ...
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IN MEMORIAM MEMORIAE Die Erinn’rung ist eine mysteriöse Macht und bildet die Menschen um. Wer das, was schön war, vergißt, wird böse. Wer das, was schlimm war, vergißt, wird dumm. Erich Kästner, gestorben am 29. Juli 1974 in München.
Die Tragödie wurde Friedrich N. zufolge ja aus dem Geiste der Musik geboren. Das Sprechen entstand dagegen aus dem Rhythmus des Lachens, sagt @chiaradg.bsky.social. Und diese Theorie klingt bei ihr keineswegs lächerlich. theconversation.com/differences-...
Differences in human and great ape laughter reveal clues to the origin of speech
A new study of great ape laughter also gives clues about how humans’ ancient ancestors started speaking.
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Carpenter bee working hard for the honey in the first Ipomea Heavenly Blue of the season. 🌱🐝 #Pollinators #Photography #MorningGlories #Insects #BloomScrolling #FlowerScrolling
See the alternating warm and cold patches in the Northern mid-latitudes? That's the imprint of a quasi-stationary Rossby wave (i.e. oscillations in the jet stream). It's rare to see it so clearly in a monthly-average temperature map.
Manchmal denke ich mir, ich sollte nicht so viel dummes Zeug erzählen oder tun. Das ist nicht mehr altersangemessen. Und dann sehe ich, was andere in Sachen "dummes Zeug" für Maßstäbe setzen. Zum Beispiel die US-Gesundheitsverwaltung. Beeindruckend.
The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w agoI’m sorry what
There's a sort of syntax to Magdalenian cave painting, says this researcher from Euskadi. phys.org/news/2026-07...
Animals in prehistoric paintings reveal hidden pattern across nine Basque caves
Iñaki Intxaurbe, a researcher at the EHU-University of the Basque Country, analyzed the distribution of images in nine caves in the Basque Country using network-based analysis and statistical techniqu...
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Schwertwale wieder mal. Wenn sie keine Jachten havarieren, terrorisieren sie den Rest der Meeresbewohner. (Mondfische heißen auf Englisch "sun fish"?) arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode
“We think this may help younger orcas feed more easily, or it could also just be for fun.”...
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Ein sehr schönes Zitat, und passenderweise ein Kommentar zu Elon Musks Ankündigung einer KI-erstellten "historisch korrekten" Odysee-Darbietung.
Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 2w agoAnd, of course, for both fascists and generative AI, there is ultimately no significant difference between history and myth
Finally went to see the Shamaness. Great exhibition by @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social. What struck me most of all: the story her bones and her teeth tell (or don't tell). www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/en/temporary...
The Shamaness
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Zivilcourage wäre, wenn sowas nicht die Nachkommen machen müssten.
A rather sensible view. Which means it lacks the emotional appeal to ever get much political traction. Like taxes, migration is a topic that can be easily used to generate gut reactions (either way). Aloof rational approaches have little chances of winning the day. Blame our primate minds.
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3w agoImmigration isn't in and of itself an inherently moral quantity. In stability terms it can happen for good and bad reasons and lead to positive and negative outcomes, usually all at the same time.
A striking, touching illustration of the shifting baseline syndrome. To someone from two generations ago, what we think of as beautiful, unspoiled nature would seem, or in this case, sound, like an almost barren landscape with just a couple of odd survivor species hanging on.
Kees van der Leun@sustainable2050.bsky.social · 3w agoListen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years. Great audio reconstruction. Same here near Utrecht, the Netherlands: From deafening chorus to almost silent spring. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Some years ago, I wrote "friction is texture." But as AI-extruded homogenized slop takes over social media and blogs, I am coming to realize that friction is also *flavor*. When content is optimized for consumption, the words feel like someone has already chewed and digested them on my behalf.
The navigation feats behind Polynesian expansion are one of the most fascinating aspects of human history in my view. theconversation.com/the-real-mys...
The real mystery behind Moana: after 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
New evidence suggests a massive centuries-long drought may be part of the answer.
theconversation.com
Bonellia viridis is a spoon worm where the female is a fat green blob and the male is microscopic and lives inside her. Sex is decided by luck: larvae that land on a female become male, larvae that land on bare mud become female. Mud determines your sex. #WormWednesday #marinelife
Russland, die andere Seite. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
‘I tried to help them, but my strength gave out’. For half a century, Nina Litvinova stood with Soviet and then Russian political prisoners. In May, at 80, she took her own life. — Meduza
On May 12, the dissident and human rights activist Nina Litvinova died by suicide in Moscow. From the late 1960s on, she devoted her whole life to helping political prisoners, first in the Soviet Unio...
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Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology
A stunning amber bead necklace, dating 6th century BC, from Saal a.d.Saale-Waltershausen. It appears that amber served a dual purpose, enhancing the appearance and protecting the women who wore it during the Hallstatt period. The intriguing material, sourced from the Baltic region,...🧵1/2 📷 me
A risible study: tickling orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and humans aged six months to seven years shows that laughter rhythms are ancient. And that the ability to suppress, fake or modulate laughter is "a fundamental building block of speech". www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
Scientists Tickled Gorillas And Found An Old Clue To How Humans Learned Speech
A study of 140 laughter sequences found the same rhythmic timing pattern in humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.
forbes.com
That's very interesting. A short while ago I read how Yamnaya-ancestry people brought Y. pestis along on their westward expansion into Europe, possibly diminishing local hunter-gatherers. It seemed a bit far-fetched at the time, an epidemic among scattered mobile bands of people.
Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · 2mo agoA prehistoric plague outbreak was probably set off by a meal of infected marmot. The findings, published today in @nature.com, are "paleoepidemiology in action," says @bitesizedna.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...
Wenn der Phänotyp unseres Nachwuchses nach Belieben per Gen-Editing und durch Embryonen-Selektion erstmal steuerbar ist: Wie lang brauchen wir dann, um durch Modewellen unseren eigenen Gen-Pool genauso irreversibel zu versauen wie den unserer Hunde oder Pferde? www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
Warum ein deutscher Topgenetiker das Design menschlicher Embryonen ablehnt
Ein Schweizer Spitzenforscher manipuliert präzise menschliche Embryonen in einem US-Labor. Für viele ist es nur ein Test der verwendeten Technik, für den Bonner Genetiker Markus Nöthen Teil eines aufb...
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Eigentlich beschreibt die Passage, glaube ich, sehr gut den späteren Gruppenführer Reinhard H. So oder so: "Who goes Nazi" ist wirklich lesenwert. Auch nach 85 Jahren. harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis, from 1941, is JD Vance.
A brillant reflection on how the greening of the reflecting pool reflects the mossy truth of the current US governing style and its vegetative adherents. Or whatever. Worth a read in any case.
Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 2mo agodefector.com/promises-mad... Ok, I'm calling it: best blog of the year
![Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia43wl3gwyqydc47yse5gbdzybk2edtcibxdtr5jf4gqorc676ap4)
