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541.
New chemical analysis of Aztec turquoise suggests it didn’t come from the SW US(arstechnica.com)
40 points by curtis 8y ago|5 comments
542.
New study adds evidence to debate over the only known Clovis burial(arstechnica.com)
23 points by curtis 8y ago|4 comments
543.
by curtis 8y ago
Currently there is an agreement between the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army [1] that the air force will control most fixed-wing aircraft and the army most helicopters. I think this is completely dumb and should be dispensed with right away.
544.
Latinx – a political neologism(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
545.
Do Crime Declines Produce Higher Housing Prices?(motherjones.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
546.
by curtis 8y ago
Context: https://www.archaeology.ie/underwater-archaeology/wreck-view...
547.
Ireland's National Monuments Service Wreck Viewer(dahg.maps.arcgis.com)
51 points by curtis 8y ago|18 comments
548.
Our Galaxy Might Be Teeming with Habitable Exomoons(gizmodo.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
549.
What's My Color IQ?(xrite.com)
133 points by curtis 8y ago|93 comments
550.
The making of the airplane seats for the world's longest flight(cnn.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
551.
by curtis 8y ago
A much larger number of people attend college today than in the past. Since most of the smartest people were probably already going to college, increasing the size of the pool would almost certainly decrease the "average smartness&quo
552.
Did Toolmaking Pave the Road for Human Language?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
553.
How Children in a Maya Village Do Chores(npr.org)
382 points by curtis 8y ago|202 comments
554.
Oldest bubonic plague genome decoded(shh.mpg.de)
8 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
555.
The Moon is brighter than the Sun – in gamma-rays(fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
556.
by curtis 8y ago
The United States had mustard gas munitions in the European theater in case they needed to retaliate against a first use of chemical weapons by the Germans. In 1943 the Germans launched a successful air raid on the port of Bari, Italy [1].
557.
Special Paint on the Hood of the World War II Jeep Could Detect Mustard Gas(jalopnik.com)
61 points by curtis 8y ago|17 comments
558.
The slender skyscrapers changing New York's skyline(cnn.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
559.
How does a preindustrial society put a 13-ton hat on a statue?(arstechnica.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
560.
by curtis 8y ago
I think you can pretty much kill anything if you heat your spacecraft enough. Of course, you might kill the spacecraft too. It might be very difficult indeed to destroy certain types of spores, and the "cook the spacecraft until they
561.
by curtis 8y ago
I think Rust is the clear winner for OS-level programming. I'm not at all sure that it's the right solution for application-level programming. I think Go got two things right for the statically compiled application-level space:
562.
Moon Microbe Mystery Finally Solved (2011)(space.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
563.
by curtis 8y ago
Back when Andrei Alexandrescu was working at Facebook, I had hoped that Facebook would adopt D as a standard language. That didn't happen, and it seems unlikely that D will get a powerful corporate sponsor. I think that would have gr
564.
by curtis 8y ago
Apollo 12 landed right next to the Surveyor 3 lander, and the astronauts removed a few pieces from it and returned with them. When NASA disassembled the video camera later they found microorganisms still alive on the device. This article a
565.
by curtis 8y ago
I wonder if this is the wrong way to go about it. You could design a spacecraft so it's heat resistant, and then once it's fully assembled, stick it in an oven and heat it to say 200C and just let it sit for a couple of days, or
566.
by curtis 8y ago
This is probably the best article I have seen on this particular subject. I expect that many HN readers would also like to read it, but because the subject is extremely contentious, I think it will be impossible to discuss it here without
567.
After Evergreen One Year Later, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying Look Back(thestranger.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|1 comments
568.
Ten Other Men Left Genetic Legacies So Huge They Rival Genghis Khan's (2015)(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
569.
In southern Brazil humans caused forest expansion between 1410 and 900 BP(nature.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|1 comments
570.
Something killed a lot of sperm whales in the past–and it wasn’t whalers(sciencemag.org)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments

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