Joy Howard

Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives: A Global Perspective This volume brings together perspectives from different parts of the world that showcase the wide variety of practices, institutions, and ideologies that allowed for shared identities and coordinated ...

This edited volume represents a serious effort to rethink basic categories of human political development, based on new archaeological data from across the world. Thanks to Justin Jennings for inviting me to write a preface (in which I note a debt to Carole Crumley)
www.routledge.com/9781032856926

Thanks to @misterduncan.bsky.social for the incredible imagery in this campaign.

How many upgrades do we have left?

Let’s end fast tech.

I'm part of Backmarket's new campaign to reduce fast tech!

Interview here: www.backmarket.co.uk/en-gb/c/tech...

How to travel abroad as the world's most toxic brand: American Could travel get hostile? How to deal—and why the long tail of Covid might be an American’s saving grace.

smart
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So powerful.

Great piece. Your reporting just gets better and better. Thank you!

Six Meditations on the Phone The modern soul finds itself divided.

open.substack.com/pub/dostoevs...

Chilling.

Trump’s Team Calls Europe ‘Pathetic’ in Leaked Signal Group Chat Messages Trump officials have demanded more European military spending and questioned the continent’s values. Leaked messages show the depth of the rift.

Everyone on the Paris metro had been reading the signal chat since yesterday morning. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/w...

These guys are so giddy to finally be out of the closet about their nepotism.

Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition in Paris. A feminist revenge flick that still slaps 400 years later.

Elon Musk Looks Desperate How to lose $148 billion in less than two months

@cwarzel.bsky.social is so smart

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Isamu Noguchi

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt

Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...

In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

Best overview of this post-enlightenment, new obscurantist moment I’ve read so far. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Loved bringing a little French gardening to London with Patrick Vernuccio. bmoutdoor.com/info/Back-Ma...

European glaciers have shrunk 40% since 2000, study says Loss of cover in Alps and Pyrenees part of ‘alarming’ global acceleration in melting of ice mass

When I went viral last year with a post about the Rhône glacier, I was ridiculed by many for being concerned about the retreat.

40% loss in 1/4 of a century is massive. The fact it's accelerating should be alarming. The speed of retreat is a visceral sign of the crisis we are in.

One of the most stunning images ever created to illustrate the magnitude of our crisis. May I contact you directly about an idea to ensure more people around the world see it and continue learning how to fight climate change?