This engraving shows a bunch of humans spearing a sea turtle. But wait! A manatee looks on in terror, clutching her child! And thinks back to all the different kinds of harpoons she has seen…… Read the rest “Science Art: Manière de pêcher la Tortüe; le Lamantin from Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers, Volume I (1744)”
This is a Julbock – a “Yule goat” – from a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
I never realized there was doubt about the tales of vicious headhunting tribes in South America until I read this Discovery News item. Apparently, they’ve just gotten around to DNA-testing… Read the rest “The shrunken head considered.”
The Ayapaneco language is about to die out, the Guardian reports, in part because the last two speakers aren’t talking to each other:
… Read the rest “A language-killing grudge.”Manuel Segovia, 75, and Isidro Velazquez, 69,
Discovery takes a peek inside a famous statue’s hand to find Michelangelo’s lost weapon of war:
… Read the rest “David was packing heat.”“Bulging with veins, the right hand is holding what remains of a terrible weapon
“Trophic level” is a measure of how far up the food chain an animal is. It’s generally used in ecological studies to show how much impact a predator has on its habitat –… Read the rest “Cookbook ecology”
New Scientist recently got all romantic with an intrepid researcher’s chemical expose of her big fat geek wedding:
… Read the rest “Oxytocin and roses….”WE’D booked the venue, chosen the bridesmaids’
We all want a primitive man, says the Telegraph, reporting on new evidence that modern humans got it on with Neanderthals:
… Read the rest “Not the kind that belongs to a club, but the kind with a club that belongs to him…”[Said Professor Paabo, who is director of genetics at the renowned
Scientific American resets my priorities (or at least my metaphors) with anthropological research. You think in order to walk, you gotta crawl first? Not really:
… Read the rest “Walk, don’t crawl.”According to anthropologist
New Scientist goes out on a limb with a new study that hints that humans may have learned to walk up in the branches before marching on the ground:
… Read the rest “Walking in the trees.”Kivell thinks the wrist bones of chimpanzees
About two months ago, the BBC tells us, Scottish researchers used computer models to bring a lost medieval instrument back to life:
… Read the rest “Listen to the lituus.”Bach’s motet (a choral musical composition) “O
LiveScience sullies our image of chimpanzees as noble, natural creatures with evidence that these apes practice prostitution:
… Read the rest “Chimp tricks.”The primates’ food-for-sex barter occurs indirectly,
New Scientist, always on the raw, throbbing edge of behavioral science, reveals the heartwarming findings about the couple that spanks together:
… Read the rest “Spank for a happy relationship!”SPANKING is stressful at first, but it
PhysOrg reveals the high cost of gridlock. All that congestion blocks job growth as well as cars:
… Read the rest “Jammed.”A new UC Irvine study found that places with sluggish commutes – usually an indication
Norwegian encyclopedists behold African artifacts.
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