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How Did We Learn to Talk? We Can’t Say for Sure.
New York Times· 3 days agoIn “The Language Puzzle,” the archaeologist Steven Mithen asks exactly how our species started speaking. Dennis Duncan is the author of “Index, A History...
‘No hugging, no learning’: How Seinfeld made the world a nastier, funnier place
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSeinfeld is often hailed as the definitive 1990s TV show, so it’s always jarring to recall that it...
The warrah enigma: Why Darwin was fascinated by this now extinct coyote-like creature
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOther findings, however, challenge such views. Recent studies, in fact, suggest the case of the...
'Rocky II' turns 45: Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers then and now
Fox News· 6 days ago"Rocky II" is officially 45 years old. After the success of the first installment of the "Rocky"...
‘No hugging, no learning’: How Seinfeld made the world a nastier, funnier place
Daily Telegraph· 4 days ago, Roseanne, The Golden Girls and a long-forgotten Cosby Show spin-off called A Different World. In...
Human genome has Neanderthal genes but lacks its Y chromosome
Interesting Engineering· 4 days agoThe Y plays an important role in biological sex and male fertility, according to a study. While mtDNA can provide some health insights, its overall implications remain unclear. The Natural Museum ...
These films changed queer representation forever. We spoke with their earliest champion
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 days agoOn the occasion of an upcoming anniversary series at the Academy Museum, we caught up with film scholar B. Ruby Rich, coiner of the term "New Queer Cinema."
'Rocky II' turns 45: Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers then and now
Fox News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIt has been 45 years since the first "Rocky" sequel, "Rocky II," first hit theaters. Sylvester...
Modern human DNA contains bits from all over the Neanderthal genome – except the Y chromosome. What...
The Conversation· 5 days agoGenetic studies are revealing ever more about the links between modern humans and these long-gone relatives – most recently that a rush of interbreeding between our species occurred in a relatively ...
Whoops, We’ve Been Looking at a Really Important Fossil Upside Down This Whole Time
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 7 days agoApart from its very primitive notochord—a flexible rod found in the embryos of chordates, and which...