Billy Barr has lived in a secluded cabin in Gothic, just north of Crested Butte, Colorado, for more than 40 years. He has also spent over 50 winters living off grid, building one of the…
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Humans: massacring, butchering, and (likely) partly consuming enemies as a means to dehumanise them since the Bronze age
Archaeologists have analysed over 3000 human bones and bone fragments from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren, England, concluding that the people were massacred, butchered, and likely partly consumed by enemies as a…
Why is 7 the magic number?
In 1956, cognitive psychologist George A. Miller of Harvard University’s Department of Psychology published a paper in the journal Psychological Review. Its title? “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our…
Could African honeybees help to reduce tension between farmers and elephants loved by tourists?
The Elephants and Bees Project is an innovative study conducted by Save the Elephants that uses an in-depth understanding of elephant behaviour to reduce damage from crop-raiding elephants using their instinctive avoidance of African honey…
Starlings on the street wires
Maria Popova’s wonder-filled exploration of birds and ornithological books during a time of uncertainty made my heart a bit lighter. She turned this into a card deck called, “An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for…
Windows 3.x Games Software Library on the Internet Archive
I am a huge fan of the Internet Archive and their mission to be a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Today on my internet travels, I discovered…