Bees like Sugar and can figure out how to get it.
[They]... are incredibly intelligent, despite having brains the size of a sesame seed.
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Iinsects (bees) have more complex brains TPT
[They]... are incredibly intelligent, despite having brains the size of a sesame seed.
Saturday, August 13, 2016
A-final-blow-to-myth-of-how-people-arrived-in-the-Americas
From the Christian Science Monitor
FTA: For decades, archaeologists thought they knew how the story went: Humans migrated from Siberia to Alaska over the Bering land bridge during the last Ice Age,
New research published in Nature and
Evidence from Bison Biology in PNAS.
Regarding the ice-free corridor after the last ice age FTA:
"...we both also agree that the first hard [archaeological] evidence in the corridor when it finally opens is post-Clovis in age, and likely from people moving north and not south."
And relatively rare for stories like this; no use of the terms 'Than Previously thought' or 'more research is needed'.
FTA: For decades, archaeologists thought they knew how the story went: Humans migrated from Siberia to Alaska over the Bering land bridge during the last Ice Age,
New research published in Nature and
Evidence from Bison Biology in PNAS.
Regarding the ice-free corridor after the last ice age FTA:
"...we both also agree that the first hard [archaeological] evidence in the corridor when it finally opens is post-Clovis in age, and likely from people moving north and not south."
And relatively rare for stories like this; no use of the terms 'Than Previously thought' or 'more research is needed'.
Sunday, August 7, 2016
"These results were a great surprise to us,"
FTA:
"Native Americans may have a more complicated heritage than previously believed."
Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian people linked to the Middle East and Europe, rather than entirely from East Asians as previously thought, according to a newly sequenced genome.
From National Geographic
...
Willerslev believes the discovery provides simpler and more likely explanations to long-standing controversies related to the peopling of the Americas.
News report based on research published in Nature 505,p87–91 doi:10.1038/nature12736
"Native Americans may have a more complicated heritage than previously believed."
Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian people linked to the Middle East and Europe, rather than entirely from East Asians as previously thought, according to a newly sequenced genome.
From National Geographic
...
Willerslev believes the discovery provides simpler and more likely explanations to long-standing controversies related to the peopling of the Americas.
News report based on research published in Nature 505,p87–91 doi:10.1038/nature12736
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
These forests are actually much more interesting and functionally diverse TPT,
'Rule-breaker' forests in Andes and Amazon revealed by remote spectral sensing
June 27, 2016
It turns out that
forests in the Andean and western Amazonian regions of South America
break long-understood rules about how ecosystems are put together
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-06-rule-breaker-forests-andes-amazon-revealed.html#jCp
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-06-rule-breaker-forests-andes-amazon-revealed.html#jCp
These forests are actually much more interesting and functionally diverse TPT....
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-06-rule-breaker-forests-andes-amazon-revealed.html#jCp
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
More literate TPT
link
Using computer algorithms to analyze
handwriting, researchers discover citizens of ancient Judah were much
more literate than previously thought.
Friday, February 19, 2016
What if what you know isn't so...
FTA: General relativity
underpins our understanding of gravity: everything from the age of the
stars in the universe, to the GPS signals we use to find out way around,
is based on Einstein's equations
....
....
'If
general relativity breaks down, it would throw everything upside down,'
said co-author Saran Tunyasuvunakool, also a PhD student from DAMTP .
'It
would no longer have any predictive power - it could no longer be
considered as a standalone theory to explain the universe.'
If Einstein is proven wrong, an alternative way of explaining the universe would then need to be found.
Monday, January 4, 2016
More clichéd than previously thought
Another take on the phrase "Than Previously thought"
FTA: A lesser known cliché in journalism, especially science reporting, is the construction than previously thought. It doesn’t always take that precise form – sometimes it’s than originally thought, or than previously believed, or than scientists/anyone previously thought, or just than thought – but that’s the general structure.
FTA: A lesser known cliché in journalism, especially science reporting, is the construction than previously thought. It doesn’t always take that precise form – sometimes it’s than originally thought, or than previously believed, or than scientists/anyone previously thought, or just than thought – but that’s the general structure.
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