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Written July 4, 2008 in anthropology, cultural evolution, europe, evolution, genetics, human prehistory, it-was-better-in-my-day, language, music, stupidity
….and the award for the stupidest science story I’ve seen in months goes to LiveScience.com for “Cave Men Loved to Sing“, in which we’re told that our cave-dwelling ancestors used echo-location:
With only dull light available from a torch, which couldn’t be carried into very narrow passages, the ancient hunters had to use their voices like [...]
Written March 31, 2008 in africa, anthropology, books, evolution, fossils, genetics, human prehistory, people, stupidity
No doubt you’ve all seen some of the hype surrounding the new book, Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence by Gary Lynch and Richard Granger. The book argues that a long-extinct hominin species, the “Boskops”, were much smarter then we are:
Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely [...]
Written March 9, 2008 in americas, anthropology, bongo-bongoism, creationism-is-stupid, human prehistory, it-was-better-in-my-day, stupidity
The reviews of Roland Emmerich’s new movie, 10,000 B.C. (”A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter’s journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe”) are starting to come through, and it sounds like a bigger crapfest than Apocalypto:
In 10,000 BC, you’ve got Egyptian pyramids being built by guys using woolly [...]
The NY Times meets some Young Earth/Creationist Geologists, and discusses the increasing ‘respectability’ of Flood-Geology:
On a muggy afternoon in July, a group of geologists from around the country put on some bug spray and fanned out along one of Ohio’s richest fossil beds. The rock walls were slippery and steep at points, and some people came [...]
Written November 15, 2007 in creationism-is-stupid, dinosaurs, evolution, humor, religion, stupidity
In short: John Scalzi takes a day trip to the Creationism Museum, and mercilessly mocks the stupidity therein. The photos he took are amazing, and includes what may just possibly be the coolest photo ever:
Image © John Scalzi 2007
Written November 14, 2007 in anthropology, fossils, genetics, human prehistory, neanderthals, primates, stupidity
This just in - feminism wiped out Neanderthals!
Among Neanderthals, hunting big beasts was women’s work as well as men’s, so it’s a safe bet that female hunters got stomped, gored, and worse with appalling frequency. And a high casualty rate among fertile women - the vital “reproductive core” of a tiny population - could well [...]
Written October 31, 2007 in SSTA, humor, neuroscience, psychology, quotes, science, stupidity
Here’s a new occasional segment that I’m going to run on Henry: The Stupid Science Terminology Award. This week, the award goes to the National Geographic News, for inflicting upon us the nausea-inducing term “brainbow”:
In their effort to tease out the details of connections in the nervous system, Lichtman and his colleagues developed about [...]
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