Excellent, interesting interview with Ada Palmer about Renaissance Italy.
Still uploading chapter of The Voice from the Darkness at Royal Road.
Archaeologists have been arguing for a century over when dogs were domesticated, with some holding for more than 30,000 years ago and others for c. 15,000 years ago. Two major new studies point toward a date of c, 16,000 years ago, and they also show that genetically very similar dogs were kept by diverse human societies across Europe and the Middle East. That would imply that dogs were spread by trade or gift, which is a fascinating thing to imagine. (NY Times, original papers, ScienceNews)
More replication failures in social science: it appears not to be true that smarter people are more influenced by ideology. (Twitter/X)
Murderous Masonic conspiracy in France.
Toltec altar of human sacrifice found.
Major Australian study: no evidence medical cannabis is effective for depression, anxiety, or PTSD.
CNN: Trump keeps saying ‘nobody’ knew or expected things lots of people knew or expected.
Afrom the same source, Seed Oils are not bad for you.
There is just so much Roman stuff within their empire that you can hardly dig anywhere without finding something. This is about some suburban buildings unearthed in France.
The British Museum has a coin of the Zanj Rebellion, a massive rising of African slaves in 9th-century Mesopotamia.
Sometimes only satirical publications stand up to dictatorships.
Major British Museum exhibit on Hawaii.
Amazing drawings of plant root systems.
More evidence that Covid-19 originated in the Wuhan wet market. (Twitter/X)
Saudi Arabia's insane Neom linear city plan is flailing, and multiple construction contracts were just cancelled.
Lego plans to mark the completion of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona with its largest ever set.
Summary of the evidence that glycophosphates do not cause cancer. (Twitter/X)
The history and impact of the spreadsheet.
Bizarre story about cartoons for children and Iranian spying in Russia.
Age gap relationships: Aragorn was 87 and Arwen was 2778 when they married. Disgusting!
Need a boost to your diet plan? Consider Orthodox Lent.
Long piece on the economic growth of Scotland in the 1700s, focusing on the availability of capital and credit.
Interesting review of S.Q. Visser’s On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All, much about "pedant on pedant rhetorical violence."
Syracuse University cancels a bunch of degree programs, including Classics. (NY Times, Daily Orange)
Long thread on Russian aims for this year of the war and how they are going (very slowly). (Twitter/X)
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