What Is Ruliology?(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

66 points by helloplanets 9 months ago | 70 comments

2000 years of population swings among Indigenous Americans(science.org)

19 points by gmays 1 year ago | 10 comments

"Jumping genes" helped ants evolve after the extinction of the dinosaurs(uni-muenster.de)

22 points by gmays 5 days ago | 3 comments

University of Münster press release on a Science Advances study linking bursts of transposable elements to ant diversification after the dinosaur extinction.

Increasing rat numbers in cities are linked to climate warming, urbanization(science.org)

48 points by rntn 1 year ago | 30 comments

Human-enhanced tsunami hazard in large lakes(nature.com)

54 points by gumby 18 days ago | 6 comments

Open-access Nature Communications paper showing human-driven erosion overloaded Lake Iseo's delta, enabling earthquake-triggered collapses and lake tsunamis in 1117 and 1222 CE.

Kramatorsk Radiological Accident(en.wikipedia.org)

41 points by exizt88 3 years ago | 8 comments

Clockwork Mechanics, Maintenance, and Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages(jhiblog.org)

15 points by benbreen 24 days ago | 4 comments

JHI Blog essay on how late-medieval writers like Oresme, Mézières, and Froissart used mechanical clocks, which needed constant maintenance, as metaphors for cosmic and political order.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled(xenaproject.wordpress.com)

456 points by artninja1988 3 months ago | 225 comments

A Xena Project blog post about mathematicians being outpaced at finding counterexamples, from the blog on mathematicians learning the Lean theorem prover.

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age(smithsonianmag.com)

139 points by Hooke 1 month ago | 55 comments

Smithsonian magazine article on how archaeologists reconstruct perishable Stone Age fiber technologies like rope, thread and twine from the traces they left.

What Happened to the Neanderthals?(nytimes.com)

34 points by Hooke 18 days ago | 36 comments

A New York Times science article exploring theories about why the Neanderthals disappeared.

Why human societies developed so little during 300k years(woodfromeden.substack.com)

391 points by elsewhen 3 years ago | 384 comments

A Substack essay by Tove K on Wood From Eden arguing why human societies developed so little over 300,000 years, linking stagnation to violence.