Forwarded from Dan Davis Author
The Continent was almost cut off from Britain already by 8500 BC.
Doggerland would hang on for a while yet before being ultimately inundated.
The sea level rises would have been noticed by the people living on the coasts. Former and ancestral camp sites and foraging grounds on the coasts would be gone. I wonder how weird they found it or if they just took it in their stride.
Doggerland would hang on for a while yet before being ultimately inundated.
The sea level rises would have been noticed by the people living on the coasts. Former and ancestral camp sites and foraging grounds on the coasts would be gone. I wonder how weird they found it or if they just took it in their stride.
Forwarded from Axis of Ordinary
POV: It is 1100 A.D. on an Indonesian island. You are a Bajau sea nomad who freedives for seafood. Your spleen is 15% larger than other locals due to a mutation in PDE10A gene. You can store more haemoglobin rich blood, letting you breathhold & dive longer. Local girls notice how much better you are at diving and hunting fish. You are about to experience natural selection
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via David Sun
Forwarded from Portal Ibis
In ancient Roman religion, the genius referred to a personal tutelary spirit that accompanied an individual from birth to death. It embodied a person’s vital force, character, and creative essence.
Geniuses were depicted as youths with wings, sometimes with a flame above their head or a torch in hand symbols of spiritual light and vital energy. In art, they often appear holding a cornucopia or a libation bowl, emphasizing their connection with abundance and prosperity.
The concept of the genius extended beyond the individual: there were geniuses of places, families, armies, and even the state (Genius loci, Genius populi Romani). Over time, the idea of the genius as an inner inspiring spirit evolved into the modern sense of the word genius — a person endowed with exceptional talent.
Geniuses were depicted as youths with wings, sometimes with a flame above their head or a torch in hand symbols of spiritual light and vital energy. In art, they often appear holding a cornucopia or a libation bowl, emphasizing their connection with abundance and prosperity.
The concept of the genius extended beyond the individual: there were geniuses of places, families, armies, and even the state (Genius loci, Genius populi Romani). Over time, the idea of the genius as an inner inspiring spirit evolved into the modern sense of the word genius — a person endowed with exceptional talent.
Forwarded from Survive the Jive: All-feed
In Prometheus the engineers who made xenomorphs were Proto-Indo-Europeans. Fun to imagine Scythian art of a xenomorph
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