Archives for July 27, 2011
The Origin of Wine
Posted by Greg Laden on July 27, 2011 With Julia spending the summer and most of the fall in The Republic of Georgia, I’ve been thinking about various political and historical aspects of that country, and one of the things that is claimed to be true is that wine was first invented there. Recently, someone asked me (always ask the archaeologist esoteric stuff…
Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan
Posted by Greg Laden on July 27, 2011 Why shrews are interesting
Posted by Greg Laden on July 27, 2011 It has been said that our most distant primate ancestors, the mammal that gave rise to early primates but itself wasn’t quite a primate, was most like the Asian tree shrew, which is neither a shrew nor does it live in trees. This is, of course, untrue. When the average American sees a shrew native…
Minnesotans for Sanity in Climate Change Policy!
Posted by Greg Laden on July 27, 2011 MN 350 is planning an event for September 24th, and would like you to help get it off the ground, or at least, show up! This September, people all around the world are joining together for Moving Planet–a worldwide rally to demand solutions to the climate crisis. In Minnesota we’ll gather on the State Capitol…
Eyes, Brains and Latitude
Posted by Greg Laden on July 27, 2011 Two things have been known for some time now: Human brains get bigger as you go north, and the volume of the primate eye and the primate brain are correlated. This COULD mean, and this may not be true, that as you go north in human populations you’ll get larger brains (for thermoregulatory reasons) and…
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