📰 Prehistoric dice from North America hint at humanity's long history of play, suggesting games of chance were popular as far back as 12,000 years ago 🎲
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Julio is ridiculous.
MSU Department of Anthropology < ANTHROPOLOGY • Follow 2h • 0 ... The Department of Anthropology is saddened to announce that former anthropology department chair Lynne Goldstein passed away yesterday. Goldstein (PhD Northwestern 1976) moved to MSU from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She served as MSU department chair from fall 1996 through summer 2006 and retired in August 2018. Lynne was founding director of the Campus Archaeology Program (CAP), which was named one of the winners of the 2017 Governor's Awards for Historic Preservation in recognition of people and organizations who have preserved Michigan's vital historic and cultural resources. She served as the editor of American Antiquity, the journal published by the Society for American Archaeology, and received numerous awards from that organization, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. Lynne was also a 1992 recipient of a President's Award for Exceptional Service to the Profession by the American Anthropological Association. She is best known for her contributions to mortuary studies, as well as her work in Illinois, Wisconsin and in the Great Lakes region, particularly at the Aztalan site. The department sends its heartfelt condolences to Lynne's family and those who knew her best.
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This is sad. Lynne Goldstein was an amazing archaeologist and formidable mentor. RIP 🏺🧪
You know that extremely firm deadline about accessibility compliance for universities? Guess they were kidding about that. Four days to go and then they gave us another year.
The extra time is nice, the timing is horrible.
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my brain has been so poisoned by AI slop that I thought that mop handle was the gas line clipping through their pant leg
What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/
Colour photo of an excavated, preserved tree stump of an oak that grew in the Early Bronze Age
The preserved stumps of oak trees survive below the Flag Fen post-alignment. Part of a submerged forest, these trees belong to a Early Bronze Age terrestrial landscape that pre-dates the rising groundwater table that turned these low-lying contours into a fen embayment. #BogOaks #Fenland #FlagFen 🏺
Good news everyone, at least it's a draw!
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
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Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
Crazy that we have some sort of machine that can move faster than a human being now
Oh, Naylor's on an off day, sorry for the slander, Randy!
Our 2-4 hitters don't look like they're slumping when we surround them with this!
if Tim Curry had only blessed us with this speech it would have been enough, but he has given us so much more
We were just watching a random episode of Psych that he guest starred in and it was so obvious how much fun he was having. We each thought of wildly different small roles where he also was just over the top (Red Alert 3, Ferngully). Just an amazing actor, loves the game of acting and has a blast
I forget the origin but my absolute favorite description of why these movies work so well is that Michael Caine treats the muppets as fellow actors and Tim Curry treats himself as a fellow muppet
full text here: https://www.mass.gov/doc/information-for-ma-healthcare-providers-regarding-gender-affirming-care/download OFFICE OF THE MA AG Questions & Answers Can patients still access gender-affirming care in Massachusetts? Yes. Massachusetts law expressly protects access to gender-affirming healthcare services.1 Neither the January 28 Executive Order nor the February 25 OCR Rescission changes state law. Patients can still access gender-affirming care either in person or via telehealth in Massachusetts. What obligations do healthcare providers have with respect to transgender patients in light of the federal actions? Massachusetts law continues to bar discrimination against transgender patients in healthcare. Under Massachusetts law, patients are entitled to access supplies, care, and services of a medical, behavioral health, mental health, surgical, psychiatric, therapeutic, diagnostic, preventative, rehabilitative or supportive nature relating to the treatment of gender dysphoria. The denial of that care is contrary to Massachusetts law and may run afoul of Massachusetts anti-discrimination statutes. Do the federal actions make gender-affirming care illegal under the female genital mutilation statute? Consistent with the statement issued by Attorney General Campbell, there is no connection between “female genital mutilation” and gender-affirming care, and no federal law makes gender-affirming care unlawful. The Western District of Washington recently agreed that there was “no credible threat of prosecution” under that statute for providing gender-affirming care and noted that the federal government itself confirmed “that the Executive Order does not expand the criminalized conduct under that statute.” Washington et al. v. Trump, 2:25-cv-00244, Dkt. No. 233 (Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Preliminary Injunction) at n.1. Do the federal actions strip federal funding…
'It's a scary time to be 14 and trans' Patients' families, however, are not staying quiet. After Baystate's decision, some of the parents filed civil rights complaints with the Massachusetts Attorney General. (The Attorney General's office did not respond to NPR's request for comment.)
everyone sees the statements from the attorney general in the first image. only trans people and their families experience the silence from the attorney general in the second image.
"It just felt like the floor had fallen out. Like all the support that I thought we had was gone. Maybe this is naive, but I didn't think that would happen in Massachusetts."
there is functionally a conspiracy to gaslight you into believing that, so it's understandable
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the roadmap to technological fascism is both terrifying and deeply insufferable
our wannabe overlords are evil, and dangerous, and also total dweebs
“Scientists are trained for a world where data speaks for itself. Where misinformation moves slowly. Where scientific expertise naturally rises above noise. That world is gone.”🧪
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This little fart-squirrel (Mephitis mephitis) is stamping, a warning behavior before the *big show*.
She's hoping to scare you off with her ferocity so she doesn't have to use her scent glands.
These types of bluffing moves are "deimatic" behaviors, from Greek 'deimatóo' = "to frighten".
If the so-called free speech purists and “diversity of thought” crusaders cared about anything but promoting conservative nonsense, this reporting, which shows the most powerful university in the world suppressing research on their ties to slavery, would be a massive scandal.
Never expect things of us!
Reporter: If you don’t have a deal by Wednesday, will you extend the ceasefire or restart attacks? Trump: Maybe I won’t extend it… and we’ll have to start dropping bombs again.
Peace when markets are open
War when markets are closed
Dmanisi Collection Georgian National Museum
Understanding how, why, and when the global spread of Homo sapiens occurred is a major question in human evolutionary studies.
Revolution, modernity, and the dispersal of Homo sapiens beyond Africa🏺🧪
Huw S. Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social
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I was so annoyed about wrong information on the internet that I decided to make a video about how non-trinary neutrinos move and what quantum tunneling is. Andy Weir may be more bestselling than me but I'm more expert lol 🧪⚛️
Buy my book to learn more! 💙📚
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Arsinoitherium skull with two giant horns
We’re looking for researchers in any discipline of natural history: if you have a paper coming out and you want to pitch @pbseons.bsky.social on a potential episode about it, send me a DM! #scicomm #paleosky #FossilFriday
(Arsinoitherium says please and thank you!)
