What, No Olduvai George Or Carel Brest van Kempen?

I stumbled across this interesting article on the history of artistic representations of our hominin ancestors written by Richard Milner and Ian Tattersall.

Stonehenge Builders Village: The Video

National Geographic has video of the neolithic village found at Stonehenge Amusing quote from the video: These are people who knew how to party. Fascinating stuff that also includes footage of Durrington Walls…

Four Stone Hearth Later Today

The Four Stone Hearth should be up later today at Northstate Science. Be sure and watch for it…

This Is What Happens When You Let Idiots Run The Country

From here. The President apparently didn’t head the “Do not operate heavy machinery” warnings on his medication(s).

Stealing Toad Toxin

Some of you may remember my post on chemical warfare in the insect world. In that post, I mentioned: Chrysomeline (Leaf) beetles, for example, have chemical defense glands. Originally, they synthesized the chemicals themselves. During the course of their evolution, however, the became dependent on plant hosts to acquire the chemicals they use for defense [...]

I Wonder If Martin Knows About This: First Irish Viking Ship

I’m sure Lynch would be interested as well, since it concerns Ireland. Yahoo News is reporting on what may be the first Viking vessel ever discovered in Ireland. The ship was found while dredging the River Boyne.

Homo floresiensis: The Chamber Beneath Ling Bua

The Australian is reporting on a chamber beneath the Ling Bua cave where LB1 was found. According to the article the chamber was found last year:

Homo floresiensis Again

National Geographic is reporting on a new study of microcephalics by Dean Falk.

Revealing the True Me to John Davison

Davison was on a previous thread whining about the fact that I am a pseudoanonymous blogger. As you listen to this, just change the word “men” to “afarensis” and the letter “m” to the letter “a” (Davison is good at changing letters so this should be easy for him). Now that I have revealed that [...]

Basics 101: Prologue to Dating Techniques

As you are no doubt aware, ScienceBlogs has started a new multiblog series on science basics. Several people have suggested I do a few posts on dating techniques, such as radiocarbon, which I am happy to do. Before I get started on that (I was planning on doing several other techniques as well) I would [...]

Chris Stringer on the Herto Skulls

I stumbled across an interesting video of Chris Stringer discussing the Herto skulls. About twenty minutes in the sound goes out for a minute, so stick with it. Fascinating stuff… You can also find a fascinating video of Christophe Soligo talking about how closely we are related to chimpanzees.

Piltdown: Then and Now

I have found an interesting site that looks at Piltdown and asks we can be fooled again? It compares the techniques used in the field, dating techniques, skull reconstruction techniques and tooth analysis techniques used by the Piltdown discovers with modern techniques. You can also check out Richard Harter’s Piltdown Man.

Hawks on Geico

This is brilliant! It sums up my take on the Geico “Cave Man” commercials, only in Hawks inimitable style! Added Later: Since I am on the subject of interesting blog articles Check out the Hairy Museum of Natural History for all things Raven (that’s Corvus not Symone).

Sunday Video

A protest song courtesy of Quicksilver Messenger Service. Not much to the video so you can ignore it, but the music is good….

What Kind of Reader Are You?

Via the Questionable Authority What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You’re probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people’s grammatical mistakes make you insane. Book Snob Dedicated Reader Literate Good Citizen [...]