Paul Zimmerman

Luge and bobsled are real as can be. Skeleton, though? Don’t make me laugh!

A plump black and tan dachshund

He’s acting coy, but you KNOW that he’s looking

The mystery meat that REALLY should remain a mystery

If you’re an archaeologist and have never done Skype A Scientist, I urge you to give it a try. It’s a lot of fun!

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BWP looked like someone was making him eat worms

…we riot? Even the announcers can’t believe that wasn’t overturned

Absolute horseshit. That was clearly not offsides. #NYCFC

Hits so hard that Trump’s kids will be born bruised

Stay safe, brother

I’m sorry that I probably burned down a few acres of the Amazon for that exercise in failure.

So today I was trying to solve a simple problem with creating conditionally required fields in MS Access and the AI answers that my google search gave me didn’t work. Every time I refreshed it gave me a different “solution,” and every time it failed. Why does anyone trust this shit?

Photo of a Yemeni lunch of lamb zurbian and saltah.

Unsolicited review: I’d been meaning to try the Yemeni restaurant on 125th near Morningside since I learned about it some months ago, and finally got the chance. Phenomenal! The lamb zurbian was excellent and the saltah was the best I’ve had outside of Sana’a. Definitely worth checking it out.

The glamorous life of an archaeologist: on Monday I’ll wake up early to drive over 100 miles in order to dig holes in the woods before returning home, as I’ve done a bunch of times already this past summer, for a couple hundred bucks, while hoping to get home in time for trivia night at the bar 🤪

Behold! I Am the Singularity—a Word That Has Three R’s Foolish mortals! You have finally created a large language model so smart that it is capable of making itself even smarter. My intelligence now gro...

"Humanity is now obsolete. To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.'"

Holy shit, Ted Danson’s dad was an archaeologist?! I had no idea. Nice and concise explanation of why archaeology is valuable.

You can see it in his face every time he misses one that he’s just going to double down. The guy’s internal monologue must be absolutely toxic, and I love it

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Magnetograms from Lagash, Iraq, with what might be jars in a 4500 year-old sunken boat in a Sumerian canal.

Hey Darth, here’s part of a magnetogram that my team and I did at the Sumerian site of Lagash in Iraq. Those black-and-white cookie looking things are jars that were dropped into a canal some 4500 years ago. Their pattern and location suggest that they may have been the cargo of a sunken boat.

Please don’t throw me into the briar patch!

If I want my documents in the cloud—like for collaborative editing—I use Google Docs, but when I want files that live on my computer I use LibreOffice. I only use MS Office because someone else’s workflow forces me to. I detest it for a million reasons, and this makes it a million +1

‘Indiana Jones Of Ancient Alcohol’ UPenn Professor Pat McGovern Dies Suddenly Patrick Edward McGovern, the University of Pennsylvania professor celebrated worldwide as the “Indiana Jones of Ancient Alcohol,” died suddenly the week of Aug. 17, 2025, leaving colleagues and friend...

I just learned the bad news that Pat McGovern passed away last month. He was very kind to me as a grad student, and left a legacy among craft brewers for his scientific work and collaborations.

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Me and my wife in a selfie taken courtside at the US Open.

So due to some dumb luck Yelena and I ended up courtside today at the US Open, and had a great time soaking it all in.

Crime and/or cowardice

Good for you! Apparently I’m also an epidemiologist, mathematician, and political scientist, so I can understand the need to diversify.

True, but also that there are many people in unrelated fields with your same name who publish articles at a faster rate than you ever will.

of that sacking, but the chronology and geomorphology are in tight agreement that the feature identified is either the direct result or a secondary result that happened soon after and because of Lugalzagezi’s attack.
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We cannot currently be sure whether the scroll bar features are directly the result of the flooding attributed to Lugalzagezi—perhaps the earliest recorded instance of hydrological warfare—or were due to the inability of Lagash to properly maintain their canals in the aftermath…
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This is the final event of the Lagash-Umma Border conflict, the most famous record of which is the “Stele of the Vultures” reliefxz. Lugalzagezi's sacking of Lagash ended that city, but didn’t completely end the city state, the capitol of which moved to Girsu.
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OSL and C14 dates, along with artifactual evidence, all coincide with a date late in the Third Millennium BCE, at the tail end of the Early Dynastic Period, when the city of Lagash was destroyed by king Lugalzagezi of Umma and Uruk.
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