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Ancient Siberia was home to previously unknown humans(theguardian.com)
4 points by jajag 7y ago|0 comments
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The German financial meltdown of 1621-23(mikedashhistory.com)
2 points by jajag 7y ago|0 comments
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French Colonialism Lives on in Africa(spiked-online.com)
1 points by jajag 7y ago|0 comments
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by jajag 7y ago
The cost of housing is not low. For one thing, a lot of people can't get a mortgage due to deposit amounts being higher (because of higher house prices) and so are paying over the odds in overheated rental markets. On the other hand, t
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by jajag 7y ago
Had just finished reading this article when I came across this post: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/stalingrad-va...
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2,300-year-old bark shield found(theguardian.com)
1 points by jajag 7y ago|0 comments
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by jajag 7y ago
Two obvious questions, perhaps someone knows their answers: * Is the gap a measurement artifact? (Presumably not). * Are there other, small gaps besides the Fulton gap discussed in the article?
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by jajag 7y ago
Precisely - we're still going to miss our CO2 reduction targets by a mile: https://www.rte.ie/news/environment/2019/0515/1049589-carbon...
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by jajag 7y ago
It's confrontational, but it certainly isn't alt- or hard-right. I mean, this is its current lead article: https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/14/why-it-was-right-to... - and the article is not ki
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Why what we think we know about schizophrenia is wrong(theguardian.com)
80 points by jajag 7y ago|66 comments
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Royal Burial Site Found in Southend-on-Sea(theguardian.com)
51 points by jajag 7y ago|24 comments
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by jajag 7y ago
Also https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/01/denisovan-ja... gives an overview of the find.
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A Late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan Mandible from the Tibetan Plateau(nature.com)
3 points by jajag 7y ago|1 comments
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We Are Heading for a New Cretaceous(aeon.co)
2 points by jajag 7y ago|0 comments
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by jajag 7y ago
Have to admit to never having read anything by DH Lawrence, but Anthony Burgess is always worth reading.
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by jajag 7y ago
So in that case, rather than seeing forest planting as a complete all-in-one solution to climate change, should we instead see it as just one component of a greater solution? Use trees to solve the carbon sequester problem, look to other te
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by jajag 7y ago
I think you're right about many words coming to English directly from Latin during the renaissance and following periods, but it raises another interesting question - why did English take many technical words and terms from Latin, whil
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by jajag 7y ago
That's part of it certainly, but I wonder whether a lot of technical terms and words were taken directly from Latin - which up until a few hundred years ago was the dominant language for education, law, diplomacy etc.
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by jajag 7y ago
One of the things that's surprised me from learning both Spanish and German is that whilst for a small, basic set of vocabulary, German and English are very similar (e.g. Haus, Schuh, Hund vs. Casa, Zapato or Pero in Spanish), the two
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Lessons from the Long Depression(coppolacomment.com)
106 points by jajag 7y ago|56 comments
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by jajag 7y ago
Yeah I was using the term to refer to the Scottish and things Scottish but according to Wikipedia [1] the term nowadays does have mildly negative connotations which I was completely unaware of, so you learn something new every day. [1] htt
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by jajag 7y ago
The Irish Book of Conquests (Lebor Gabála Érenn) tells a similar story - in fact I'd guess that's where the Scotch origin myth comes from: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn
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First successful model simulation of the past 3M years of climate change(realclimate.org)
3 points by jajag 8y ago|0 comments
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by jajag 8y ago
I think the question is that if the current accepted theory for the redshift is correct, then where has the energy gone?
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by jajag 8y ago
Yeah and watch inflation sky-rocket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution
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by jajag 8y ago
Can anyone extract what the impact of a JIT compiler is on these figures? The initial performance hit is eventually eroded by the runtime optimizations, so will a long-running Java program eventually close the energy performance gap on a C
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About Neoliberalism(spiked-online.com)
1 points by jajag 8y ago|0 comments
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Human body might be able to pick up on Earth's magnetic field(theguardian.com)
4 points by jajag 8y ago|0 comments
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Meteor blast over Bering Sea was 10 times size of Hiroshima(theguardian.com)
3 points by jajag 8y ago|0 comments
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Radioactive particles from solar storm found in Greenland(theguardian.com)
2 points by jajag 8y ago|0 comments

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