DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT A BLOG CAN EXIST WITHOUT TRAFFIC, AND PROOF THAT SUCH CONCEPT IS WORKABLE, IS IN THE WORKS HERE, AND SHALL CONTINUE ON IN OBSCURITY FOR PERPETUITY.
The eye-popping artifacts, unveiled on Wednesday in Nature,
were abandoned on a river floodplain on the island of Luzon beside the
butchered carcass of a rhinoceros. The ancient toolmakers were clearly
angling for a meal. Two of the rhino's limb bones are smashed in, as if
someone was trying to harvest and eat the marrow inside. Cut marks left
behind by stone blades crisscross the rhino's ribs and ankle, a clear
sign that someone used tools to strip the carcass of meat.
But the age of the remains makes them especially remarkable: The
carved bones are most likely between 631,000 and 777,000 years old, with
researchers' best estimate coming in around 709,000 years old. The
research—partially funded by the National Geographic Society—pushes back occupation of the Philippines to before the known origin of our species, Homo sapiens. The next-earliest evidence of Philippine hominins comes from Luzon's Callao Cave, in the form of a 67,000-year-old foot bone.
Anthropology, how can you ever get enough? If you agree, or, if like me, you have a casual but persistent interest in the subject; you need to meet John Hawks.net.
Computer models are only as accurate as the parameters which control their results. Once this was referred to as , "garbage in, garbage out". These days it is called Climate Change. Though, to be honest, that psuedo science could more rightly be designated by the similar phrase, "garbage in, gospel out".
Getting back to the topic of this post, it is amazing how much we don't yet know. Keeping an open and inquiring mind is the only way to live. Now, that is gospel.
The crash they witnessed is an early formation stage for the largest
type of structure in the known universe, and the recent findings suggest
that the process took significantly less time than computer models have
suggested. In addition, the abundance of dusty star-forming areas in
this collision raises questions about how galaxies evolve.
"How this assembly of galaxies got so big, so fast is a mystery," Tim
Miller, a doctoral candidate at Yale University and lead author of one
of the papers, said in the statement. "It wasn't built up gradually over
billions of years, as astronomers might expect. This discovery provides
a great opportunity to study how massive galaxies came together to
build enormous galaxy clusters."
And, yes, I am aware that the phrasing of this post's title may trigger alarm for the weak minded. Tough. Learn to comprehend, avoid being a snowflake!
President Donald J. Trump has created an atmosphere wherein it seems possible that the two Koreas will finally end their war, and as a bonus, and a prerequisite North Korea could get out of the nuclear weapons business. Maybe soon as his agenda will be a similarly positive development with regards to the ongoing threat to Israel from its Arab neighbors. It may be too much to hope for, but, someday it must happen.
I was spurred to think about this by finding the following image among the pictures I had collected on my computer.
Given the current state of the oppressing nature of Syria's government toward its own people turning management of those lands over to the Israeli's could be the best thing to happen for that population in modern history.
Never were, never just for that purpose. Though, a critical observer these days would be forgiven for thinking they were. A critical observer would be forgiven,...
Did you hear that our Government, specifically the CDC has been keeping from the public the rate of defensive use of firearms versus the much smaller rate of rate by offenders? Not widely reported.
The final adjusted prevalence of 1.24% therefore implies that in an
average year during 1996–1998, 2.46 million U.S. adults used a gun for
self-defense. This estimate, based on an enormous sample of 12,870 cases
(unweighted) in a nationally representative sample, strongly confirms
the 2.5 million past-12-months estimate obtained Kleck and Gertz
(1995)….CDC’s results, then, imply that guns were used defensively by
victims about 3.6 times as often as they were used offensively by
criminals.
The quote is taken from a Daily Caller article, (linked here).
Given the current state of the oppressing nature of Syria's government toward its own people turning management of those lands over to the Israeli's could be the best thing to happen for that population in modern history.
