BBC gets into some *really* vintage sound, grooving with the world’s oldest flutes:

The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a cave in southern Germany which contains early evidence for the occupation of Europe by modern humans – Homo sapiens.

Scientists used carbon dating to show that the flutes were between 42,000 and 43,000 years old.

The findings [...]

Things will get better.

This somber fellow illustrated the “Face” article in Robert Bentley Todd’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. He was drawn by Richard Partridge, a (brace yourself) crime-fighting medical doctor of the Victorian era, who learned about illustration from his brother, John Partridge, portrait painter-extraordinary to the queen.

Basically, he seems to have been a steampunk [...]