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I was wondering what Europe would look like if the various separatist movements had their way. I checked the list of active separatist movements in Europe and selected only the regions with reasonable claims of independence based on the percentage of population supporting independence. This is...

A friend of mine is starting a new YouTube channel (Sons of Mars) to explain famous historical battles using video scenes he shot while playing Total War in high definition and edited with a special programme. He plans to recreate mostly battles from the Antiquity and teh Middle Ages. It looks...

They finally tested the genomes of the Tarim mummies and the results are surprising. Here's the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04052-7

"Adolescents from disadvantaged neighborhoods show gene regulation differences: Tougher childhood marks genes related to chronic inflammation, tobacco smoke, air pollution and lung cancer -- ScienceDaily" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200619115704.htm "An 18-year study of 2,000...

"Stonehenge: Neolithic monument found near sacred site - BBC News" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-53132567 "Archaeologists have discovered a ring of prehistoric shafts, dug thousands of years ago near Stonehenge. Fieldwork has revealed evidence of a 1.2 mile (2km) wide circle of...

"Researchers document the first use of maize in Mesoamerica -- ScienceDaily" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200603151158.htm "Radiocarbon dating of the skeletal samples shows the transition from pre-maize hunter-gatherer diets, where people consumed wild plants and animals, to...

"Discovery of oldest bow and arrow technology in Eurasia: New archaeological research demonstrates earliest projectile technology in the tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka -- ScienceDaily" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200612172238.htm "The origins of human innovation have...

"Increased fertility for women with Neanderthal gene, study suggests -- ScienceDaily" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200526151738.htm "One in three women in Europe inherited the receptor for progesterone from Neandertals -- a gene variant associated with increased fertility...

In my case about one third of the traits are wrong. I'd think that DNA could predict more accurately what people look like or whether they like cilantro or have photic sneeze reflex. What's the point of listing these traits if they get so much of them wrong?

I found the official list of most popular dogs in America by the American Kennel Club. It lists all the breeds of dogs and the ranking is available for many years. They say that the Labrador Retriever has been the most popular breed for the last 30 years. The similar Golden Retriever comes in...

Dogs and Humans Share More Than a Psychological Bond, Gut Science Reveals "For thousands of years, dogs and humans have kicked it side by side. Over the course of our millennia-long relationship, we’ve come to share things like a mutual love of snuggles and even our looks with our canine best...

I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Photographer Stephen Wilkes shows day to night in one image - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43119445

I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Can mapping conflict data explain, predict and prevent violence? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-42919593 "It was December 2015, and Dr Weisi Guo was having dinner and listening to the grimnews about the conflict in Syria. Over the...

BBC News: First monkey clones created in Chinese laboratory "Two monkeys have been cloned using the technique that produced Dolly the sheep. Identical long-tailed macaques Zhong Zhongand Hua Hua were born several weeks ago ata laboratory in China. Scientists say populations of monkeys that...

BBC News : Can staying awake beat depression? This passage gets the gist of it. "For two decades, Francesco Benedetti, who heads the psychiatry and clinical psychobiology unit at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, has been investigating so-called wake therapy, in combination with bright light...

How cute is this? The rusty spotted catbis the smallest cat species in world and only lives in parts of India and Sri Lanka.

I read about this before but it's the first time I see a quantified study. This should greatly encourage people to have children earlier. Fathers pass on four times as many new genetic mutations as mothers – study "Children inherit four times as many new mutations from their fathers than...

I think this is pretty cool. Any way is good to save the planet. How to make sushi from methane gas

So says a new study recently published in Nature. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/15/geneticists-trace-humble-apples-exotic-lineage-all-the-way-to-the-silk-road "By comparing the genomes of the different varieties and the characteristics of their fruit, the team were able to...

I had no idea that Canada invented so many things. There are also more famous Canadians than I imagined. Canada 150: What is Canada really good at? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40510614