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guy who finds out he has some Neanderthal DNA and immediately adopts Neanderthal culture as a core part of his identity

Disturbing how many news stories about Mastodon illustrate them with mammoths. #truthinproboscidea

Except for Social Security (!!), COLA hardly exists today at any company. If and when striking unions at UC win a big wage increase and combine this with a COLA agreement preventing its inflationary erosion, that would be a big victory. But COLA per se should not be fetishized.

I want to see Rogue or 5.11 or someone market a weight vest whose appearance mimics a clunky blue UN peacekeeper body armor vest. I would have so much more respect for people running around doing workouts in a facsimile of one of these

(3) Fatigue is likely to be important for other grinding societal crisis such as adapting to the climate challenge. We need to learn how to decrease fatigue to create sustained behavior change that doesn't fuel mistrust. 13/14

Federal service archaeology in the U.S. has a undergraduate only professional ladder that is honored in the breach. Commercial archaeology does not. The knock-on effects diminish the field as a whole, imo.

🧵We'd like to discuss the GAO audit that was commissioned by congress to understand the Barriers to Recruitment and Retention of Federal Wildland Firefighters. Full report here: gao.gov/products/gao-2…

England fans have been training for generations to aggressively type this afternoon. Stay tuned for the "It's Called Football" Bowl.

tis the season

Generally speaking, it’s bad to make sweeping generalizations about the social and cultural habits of an entire continent. One would have imagined that scholars with terminal degrees and journalists at prestige newspapers might have been more careful with their words.

I still can't believe that we let some white dudes that like sushi or tried kimchee a few times tell us that people across Asia have been wearing masks regularly for decades and many folks accepted it as fact.

literally a dusty bitch x.com/HydrationChimp…

Missed tonight's talk by paleoanthropologist Lee R Berger? Watch it on-demand on our Livestream channel and learn all about his groundbreaking #naledifire discovery. livestream.com/carnegiescienc…

Omicron is not much more transmissible than Alpha or Delta It is amazing how many narratives (including public health policy changes) were based on false claims about differences between variants

Too hot to bother

Morocco's Coach, Walid Regragui when asked if they are playing for the Arab world "I am not here to be a politician. We want to fly Africa's flag high just like Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon. We are here to represent Africa". Those countries previously reached the Quarter Finals.

There is a reason we use statistics, not single individual examples, to try to understand causal effects of medical interventions or illness. And these tragedies involve real people and much suffering. They aren’t entertainment. A bit of restraint isn’t too much to expect.

Imagine being jailed for 15 years for arms dealing, and when you get out, while your country is embroiled in a major war, your first move is to do an interview complaining about too many genders. American culture wars absolutely undefeated export, the modern day Hollywood.

Agree the calculator isn't an exact fit. ChatGPT *also* produces highly-polished, plausible nonsense. That's actually a big deal. Polished and highly-plausible prose completely loses any role as a signal, exactly as it becomes cheap to produce at scale. x.com/kentindell/sta…

Is anyone still here? If so, I have an announcement - something new for me - this piece in Harper's Magazine that looks at the use of public lands for renewable energy development and questions whether we should. harpers.org/archive/2023/0…