Mike Roden

Jawbone fossil builds richer image of ancient Denisovans Fossil found off Taiwan coast adds to picture of enigmatic human species having a prominent jaw with huge teeth

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11.04.2025 08:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship – not half, as some reports would have you believe Gen Z don’t hate democracy, they have a problem with the way it is being delivered.

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27.02.2025 08:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#inspiringWomenBattersea talk at Duval House Grant Road window gallery 25th Jan 2pm
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29.12.2024 18:18 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Oldest Homo sapiens in Europe

The earliest modern human genomes constrain the timing of Neanderthal admixture 🏺🦴🦣. Amazing work by @arevsumer.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

13.12.2024 11:53 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

A government advisor wrote a libel against London. Why did we believe it? A book by the foreign secretary’s aide Ben Judah paints a disturbing picture of the capital, littered with racial stereotypes and falsehoods

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13.12.2024 12:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Yellow Bittern and the conservatism of London’s restaurant scene ‘Almost every buzzy launch of a bar or restaurant in the city features a painted sign with a faux-patina or a Victorian scrubbed-wood panel’

Excellent piece about the mysterious London restaurant scene which ordinary folk like me rarely venture into:

www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-yellow-b...

20.11.2024 09:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The appointment of Robert F Kennedy has horrified public health experts. Here are his three most dangerous ideas | Devi Sridhar He says his goal is to “Make America healthy again”. But behind the laudable slogan there’s a morass of conspiracy theories, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University

Frightening prospect

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17.11.2024 18:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Eyeballs in the sky 17 April 1960 Eddie Cochran dies in car crash My mum and dad didn't talk about politics much - I was introduced to socialism by my maternal grandad - a…

It's difficult to know how to introduce yourself to something like this. You don't want my whole life story. So here's a fragment of it:
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16.11.2024 13:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0