Wonderful Aztec offering uncovered at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City.
The savagery and guilt of being a surgeon.
Geologists are learning more about the climate of the earth during the Snowball Earth phase, c. 717-658 million years ago.
Board and pieces of an ancient board game found in Russian burial mound.
At London's fan museum. (The kind you use to fan yourself, or make eyes across the theater.)
Dream incubation – using cues of setting, ritual, and so on to produce targeted dreams – is ancient. But now we were moving on to newer methods for guiding the sleeping mind.
I've seen another raft of posts lately about people feeling invisible, so this week's past post is Not Being Seen from 2022.
Thread on Twitter/X with some data showing that as people get better off they grow MORE frustrated with their conditions.
Studying residues in ceramic pots used by some European hunter-gatherers – they learned this from Neolithic farmers – to learn about the use of food plants in ancient Europe (article, news story)
How liberal are you? Quiz from 1964. I scored 69%, "mostly liberal." My negative answers were mostly about rights to things that cost money. It struck me that in the age of social media free speech debates are so different that the language here doesn't fit contemporary issues very well. Does your right to free speech mean that a private company like Meta or X has to publish your weird ideas?
Fascinating interview with psychoanalyst Adam Phillips about big themes in life, very meaningful to me right now.
Lovely little house with a garden terrace in Tokyo.
An argument that by testing people's sense of smell we could identify some neurological and other conditions.
Interview with Mary Gaitskill. Like many fiction writers of mine or earlier generations, she is baffled by the moralism of young Americans.
LLMs are so far failing at creating interesting D&D puzzles or scenarios. (Ethan Mollick on Twitter/X) Well, that's one way I am still their superior.
The plan of a pro-housing candidate running for governor of California. Vague on some key points but then I guess most voters don't want a detailed description of building code reform. But I do!
Tracing the origin of a Roman erotic mosaic looted from Italy by a Nazi officer.
US officials say Russia is providing Iran with targeting data to help them strike American assets. (Twitter/X). Could this finally sour Trump on Putin?
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