James Glover

Stephen King's "Pet Semetary"

what's the x-axis on the plot?

I always wondered what the point of them roaring at their prey was, as shown in the recent series of Walking With Dinosaurs. Did they hope to convince their prey to give up without a fight? Or an artistic choice made by the director?

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Recent DNA Studies Question a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul Recent reports present evidence of Neanderthal introgression among all non-African human populations after 50 kya. Here we trace the implications of this claim for Sahul history. If correct, ancestra...

Recent DNA Studies Question a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul [of course there could be more than one early human arrival, but the DNA doesn't survive today....] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, but not all experts are convinced A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Also this is not a new result. Chris Stringer write about it in 2017.
bsky.app/profile/chri...

Recent DNA Studies Question a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul Recent reports present evidence of Neanderthal introgression among all non-African human populations after 50 kya. Here we trace the implications of this claim for Sahul history. If correct, ancestra....

The original paper is here.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Finally someone is prepared to critically analyse the "65,000 years of occupation" narrative beloved of activists and politicians. Taking into account the time it takes to get to Australia it is probably more like 45,000 years ago. Consistent with the Mungo Man evidence.

And you are making assumptions about what a non male-centred society would look like based on our current one.

Devils (and Thylacines aka Tasmanian Tigers) went extinct on the Australian mainland with the introduction of the Dingo ~3.5ka BP. They only survived in Tasmania because the land bridge to the mainland disappeared about 10ka BP, so Dingoes never reached there.

It is also possible these women were only valued for their fertility and child rearing activities, and nothing more. It doesn't mean they had more agency, power or were treated better by their husbands.

Can you update this with recent discoveries from DNA that push their arrival till 45k or later? Interesting as Mungo Man fits in that range. Claims that Aboriginal people weren't responsible for megafauna extinctions is partly based on the claim they didn't happen till 20k years after their arrival.

My comments from 2015 on dates for early Australian occupation at Madjedbebe 2 of >60,000 years

They should have called #MasterchefAU 2025 "Back to have a crack" not "Back to win". @masterchefaus.bsky.social

I see he had a pink triangle so I presume he was homosexual. Were homosexuals released if they could convince camp authorities they had been "cured"?

Leon was an American citizen by birth. Was he Jewish? Why had to traveled to live in Europe? He survived in Auschwitz for 6 months, how did he do that? Did they release him, well before liberation, because he was an American? Did he go back to the USA straight away, or later?

Anyone know if this is a fossil and what of? It is in a limestone or sandstone cliff on a beach where the rock has recently been exposed. About 50cm from top to bottom.

I would say the real Gulf of America is the difference between what Trump promised and what will be delivered.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat passed away today at the age of 101. She was one of the pioneers of mathematical general relativity.🧪

Thanks, there is an excellent Wikipedia article on Choquet-Bruhat which also states, in precise mathematical terms, her proof of the theorems on uniqueness of solutions in vacuum GR.

Most new tech just imitates something that already exists. Think horseless carriages, movies that were filmed plays, tv that was filmed vaudeville. Eventually creative people use them in new and unforeseen ways. VR and AI will be the same.

I still have it on my "Good Morning" playlist. I played it constantly when I was studying for my finals in high school. It's like a mantra to me, the way the emphasis changes from "ECHO beach far away in time" to "echo BEACH far away in time".

An owl drawn on a reddish cave wall by finger marks dragged through exposing paler sediment beneath. A round head, two ear tufts, a beak and the breast feathers are all detailed. But not the characteristic owl eyes. Maybe it was sleeping

Apparently it #superbowl Sunday. What could be more superb than the oldest representation of one we know of from Chauvet Cave, France?
This long eared Owl was drawn by fingers scraped through the wet sediment on the cave wall 32,000 years ago.
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I see what you did there 😂

this point was discussed on Dara O'Brain's tv series The Moon.

Most of these collision craters were formed before the Moon was tidally locked to the Earth's rotation. Also the Moon is much further from the Earth than most people realise so it doesn't offer much protection.