#Geomythology
“The courage of one dragon can light up a whole universe.
Be that dragon.”
– Anonymous
From the Chinese Loong to the Filipino Bakunawa, the Scottish Beithir and the Greek Hydra, dragons have inflamed imaginations for millennia.
Why do so many cultures have dragon legends?🏺🧪
🔆 Good morning!
Embrace the Dragon Within You
“Like dragons entwined in flight,
our hearts find connection in shared skies.”
– Anonymous
The dragon reveals its thousand incarnations at Paris's Quai Branly Museum 🏺🧪
www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...
He's old and deranged, you know... like that "Don" guy.
At first I was like... California? No man, go for Florida.
Then I remembered why sending drones to Florida might not work.
Then he must have seen them sober.
But I think he's both drunk AND crazy.
“You’re ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.”
— Scott Lynch
Why did this community burn one woman’s remains in such a visible, spectacular way?
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses mystery about Stone Age hunter‑gatherers @leakeyfoundation.org 🏺🧪
leakeyfoundation.org/oldest-known...
Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa 🏺🧪
Jessica Cerezo-Román, Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social et al
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A large cremation feature at Hora 1 in Malawi dates to ~9500 years ago and contains the remains of a small, gracile adult
Human Origins Today Topic:
Recent Fossil Discoveries at Drimolen Cave, South Africa 🏺🧪
Dr. David Strait
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXeJ...
Dating has been established and new fossil discoveries there shed light on origin of Homo and evolutionary change in australopiths Host @brianapobiner.bsky.social
First absolute dating of Paleolithic paintings in the Dordogne
Experimental confirmation of the Paleolithic age of cave art in the Font-de-Gaume cave.
Radiocarbon dating and chemical imaging of carbon black–based Paleolithic cave art in the Dordogne region (France) 🏺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Neanderthals And Denisovans Appear To Have Had The “Genetic Toolbox” For Language
Natural selection and language genes in humans 🏺🧪
Rob DeSalle, Ian Tattersall et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A hypothesis for how synaptic efficiency could be related to language acquisition in these lineages.
The cerebellar components of the human language network 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Four regions in the right posterior cerebellum reliably respond to language. One region—“LangCereb3,” spanning Crus I/II/VIIb—is highly selective for language.
The dentognathic material of the Neanderthals from Chagyrskaya (Altai, Russia): Morphology and paleobiology 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Arthur Gicqueau, @benceviola.bsky.social et al
Show traits fall within the known Neanderthal phenotypic variability with certain specificities.
See How Scientists Reconstructed the Face of Little Foot,
a Human Ancestor Who Lived 3.67 Million Years Ago 🏺🧪
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus.
An early form of terrestrial hominine bipedalism in the Late Miocene of Bulgaria 🏺🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The first known hominine postcranial element from Azmaka (Bulgaria), a 7.2 Ma old nearly complete femur, which is tentatively attributed to cf. Graecopithecus.
Why Are So Many New (Old) Human Species Being Found In China?
There were some interesting characters walking around East Asia during the Middle Pleistocene.
Our species first appeared in Africa, yet our closest relative may come from China.🏺🧪
www.iflscience.com/why-are-so-m...
Blocked
Ladies and gentlemen I give you...
President Donald Trelane.
Idk it's a question of money or maybe inexperience.
In the Caribbean there's a saying...
"Green monkeys eat green mangoes."
4 years ago yesterday
Darwin's stolen notes,
"...mysteriously returned after 22 years..." 🧪
h/t @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social
Nutritional yeast flakes! I like it but...
I know people who put it on EVERYTHING to boost protein. OMG... STOP!
Obsessed! The last diet people want is a balanced one.
Your body (and mind) need more than protein.
Woo-hoo!
I have a functioning lobe!
Sorry, I don't know if there is one like that. I can't think of any other books beyond Lost Horizon and the land of Shangri-La.
Well...
Metropolis by Thea von Harbou is set in 2026... but I don't think it's what you had in mind as a different timeline.
👇 Working link:
Parietal alpha frequency shapes own-body perception by modulating the temporal integration of bodily signals 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Maybe one way to be cool is not to try so hard.
How to tell if you’re actually cool (or not), according to science
www.sciencefocus.com/science/how-...
Cool People 🧪
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
Brain Waves Defining The Limits of 'You'
Parietal alpha frequency shapes sense of body ownership by modulating temporal integration of bodily sensory signals
Parietal alpha frequency shapes own-body perception by modulating the temporal integration of bodily signals🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The network architecture of general intelligence in the human connectome 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
These results support a shift in perspective from prevailing localist models to a theory that grounds intelligence in the global topology of the human connectome.
Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This work lays the groundwork for understanding the neural mechanisms underlying evidence accumulation in social contexts in the primate brain.
Reduced Eye Blinking During Sentence Listening Reflects Increased Cognitive Load in Challenging Auditory Conditions 🧪
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Results showed that blink occurrence decreased during sentence presentation, with the reduction becoming more pronounced at more adverse SNRs.
