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#linklog: "New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice""
A lot of that is studying how dry bone, fresh bone, bone that is exposed to different types of forces will react to different types of insults. If you don’t know that a bone is going to break differently if it’s 100 years old versus 1,000 years old versus 6 days old, you would see a crack and go, ‘Oh, well, it probably happened during excavation.’
Riveting morning read. #
New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls...
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#linklog: "A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it"
Different strokes for different folks, I guess #
A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it
Dolphins are predators and actively hunt their prey, whether it's been stolen from another species or not.”...
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#linklog: "What 248 books reveal about Kaja Kallas"
A politician who reads books? Wish we had a lot more of those. #
What 248 books reveal about Kaja Kallas
EU’s top diplomat is a noted bookworm. But what can her bookshelf tell us about the politician leading Europe’s diplomacy?
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#linklog: "A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World"
Turns out, a messy world demands fewer categorical (ha!) ideas on how our brain processes it! #
A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World
An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet.
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Some prescience
Reading an op-ed by David Runciman in an LRB from February 2025, and he's so spot-on on so many things. Like this, for example:
#linklog: "These trees are making air quality in cities worse"
Who'd have thought? #
These trees are making air quality in cities worse
They release compounds that contribute to ozone emissions, and rising temperatures could exacerbate the problem.
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#linklog: "Every Novel Is Boring—Until It Isn’t"
A case for reading novels, even if they seem to bore you at first (it's part of the appeal) #
Every Novel Is Boring—Until It Isn’t
“If you didn’t get into novels at a young age—and organically discover that, at some point, a switch would flip, and then you couldn’t stop reading if you tried—there is no reason to intuit that this is how novel reading goes.” "If you didn’t get into novels at a young age—and organically discover that, at some point, a switch would flip, and then you couldn’t stop reading if you tried—there is no reason to intuit that this is how novel reading goes."
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#linklog: "Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man"
A review of Nolan's Odyssey, by Emily Wilson. I think the final nail in the coffin of the idea, that Emily Wilson and Nolan conspired to rework the Odyssey together. #
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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