MU-Peter Shimon 🀄

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:10 UTC

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:25 UTC

Hey Michelle @drmichellelarue.bsky.social
Nice to see you here.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:35 UTC

It would also be nice to have a provincial election where the Libs and NDP didn't split the vote and allow the Cons to win with only a pittance of the vote.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:27 UTC

It will be a great relief to hear from people with only 2 names.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

Newfoundland dogs generally have really sweet dispositions. It's the actual bears you have to watch out for.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:02 UTC

It's a rugged land for a rugged people... and their tiny dogs.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

The Unpopular Conservatism People's Front would object.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:01 UTC

Cervidae antlers exploited to manufacture prehistoric tools and hunting implements as a reliable source of ancient DNA 🏺🧪
www.cell.com/heliyon/full...

Objects from diverse internal and external skeletal tissues (e.g., bone, antler, ivory, teeth) are one of the most common archaeological remains.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

Yes, looks that way. It appears to be happening early on.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:30 UTC

The earliest appearance of special stone tools, used 400,000 years ago to process fallow deer. I'm not so sure about the cosmos stuff.

The Stone, the Deer, and the Mountain:
Lower Paleolithic Scrapers and Early Human Perceptions of the Cosmos 🏺🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:16 UTC

That's very cool! And pretty relevant to me, I look forward to reading it one day.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

Thanks, I'm glad you're interested in paleoanth. Some of my upcoming posts will also be touching on the subject of thermoregulation in humans. I invite you to stay tuned. :-)

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:03 UTC

Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge through social learning around 600,000 years ago.

An Arizona State U , Human Origins ASU study points to origin of cumulative culture in human evolution 🏺🧪
news.asu.edu/20240617-sci...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

Umm... Eww! No thanks, I wouldn't like that.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:48 UTC

📢Job Alert:
The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago seeks a laboratory manager for its new X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) Facility. 🏺🧪
fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...

Collections-based natural history research in biology, anthropology, paleontology, earth, and planetary sciences

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:33 UTC

A new archaeology gallery is being prepared to open at a popular Kent museum

Objects dating over 600 Kya will be on show, from the earliest type of humans hunting animals with stone tools in a forested landscape, at the Maidstone Museum 🏺🧪
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:11 UTC

900,000 BC:
What Can Archaeologists Tell Us About Prehistoric Britain? 🏺🧪
Digging For Britain with Dr Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

& featuring comments by Dr Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsPV...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:30 UTC

Hosted by Tristan Hughes,
Dr Chronis Tzedakis and Dr Vasiliki Margari , alongside the brilliant Dr Chris Stringer chrisbstringer.bsky.social explain a newly discovered climatic catastrophe which looks to have wiped out early humans in Europe 1.1 mya! 🏺🧪

open.spotify.com/episode/3UfX...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

Origins of cumulative culture in human evolution—researchers identify contributions to today's culture and technology

3.3 million years of stone tool complexity suggests that cumulative culture began during the Middle Pleistocene 🏺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:38 UTC

May her memory be a blessing

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:33 UTC

What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame 🏺🧪
theconversation.com/what-the-3-2...

Renderings dress Lucy in thick, reddish-brown fur, with face, hands, feet and breasts peeking out of denser thickets.
This hairy picture of Lucy might be wrong.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:03 UTC

Lucy, discovered 50 years ago in Ethiopia, stood just 3.5 feet tall − but she still towers over our understanding of human origins 🏺🧪
theconversation.com/lucy-discove...

Her discovery would overturn what we thought we knew about the evolution of our own lineage.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 13:02 UTC

Ethnography and ethnohistory support the efficiency of hunting through endurance running in humans 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Suggests EP hunting as a method of food procurement would have probably been available and attractive to Plio/Pleistocene hominins.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:33 UTC

☀️Good morning!

Morning exercise may be optimal for improving bone health

Mice that exercised soon after waking up had stronger and longer bones than those that exercised later.

Time of exercise differentially impacts bone growth in mice 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

It's a gorgeous landscape out there and wonderful people. I did study geology, and it's very old and fascinating. The Scottish Highlands and Appalachians are the same mountain range, once connected as the Pangean Mountains. Before you leave, you'll have to drink some Screech and kiss a cod. ;-)

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 10:36 UTC

Sweet.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 02:47 UTC

Wow

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 23:58 UTC

Are you not entertained?

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 23:55 UTC

Funny (or not), impoverishment is also seen in fascist authoritarian dictatorships... Just saying.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 23:46 UTC

And those "Tony Stark" wannabes wouldn't know a flask from a beaker.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 23:45 UTC

But if you really want to start a controversy... Then just say, Skub is Vegemite. ;-)

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:58 UTC

Yes. Thus, it's also predictable.

From a month ago:
bsky.app/profile/mu-p...

“We’re not stuck on ISS,” Mark Nappi, Boeing’s vice president for its Commercial Crew Program, told reporters in a news conference on June 28.
www.npr.org/2024/07/03/n...

Update: They're indeed still stuck up there.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:44 UTC

CNN... Certainly Not News

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:46 UTC

Hmmm... Makes a good case for not having a glass tabletop.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:59 UTC

Some employers (mostly conservative) have it in their head that the employees MUST be uncomfortable, otherwise it's not work. I have no idea where that comes from, but it seems like a rather warped sadism to me.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:58 UTC

Oooh, I know... Poor Dick, he tried though, bless him.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:54 UTC

Well... you could make it look like you're staring at the door all day.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:40 UTC

Just the right person... The Tories need a bit of sweeping after that conflagration.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:00 UTC

Roughly 50,000 years ago...
Shanidar 1 (aka Nandy) walked the earth.

What can we say about the life and death of this Neanderthal?

The Life and Death of a Neanderthal (Shanidar 1) 🏺🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=urln...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

Up close and personal with the latest Neanderthal skull 🏺🧪
www.youtube.com/shorts/gf7P_...

After lying in the ground for 75,000 years, Shanidar Z was unearthed. She appears to have been deliberately interred in the ground along with a cluster of 9 other Neanderthals.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:00 UTC

Ancient Neanderthal DNA found to influence autism susceptibility 🏺🧪
www.psypost.org/ancient-nean...

Study finds certain genetic traits inherited from Neanderthals may significantly contribute to the development of autism.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:38 UTC

Neanderthal Nonsense:
Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins🏺🧪
www.thecollector.com/neanderthal-...

Debunking many “Dumb Caveman” myths, the cognitive prowess of our ancient relatives, the Neanderthals, was much more complex than previously thought.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

What did Neanderthals do when they had a child with a disability or genetic abnormality?

They did their best to care for them.

Neanderthal With Down Syndrome Lived to Age 6 🏺🧪
flipboard.com/video/amaze-...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:48 UTC

"I wonder where that fish has gone. You did love it so. You looked after it like a son. And it went wherever I did go."

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:31 UTC

Evidence of a Neanderthal child with Down syndrome.

The child who lived:
Down syndrome among Neanderthals? 🏺🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This child would have needed care for at least 6 years, likely with other group members to assist in childcare.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:01 UTC

☀️ Good Monday morning! Did you miss me?

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 11:55 UTC

Meatallica

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