HENRY

More bulletpoints - since I’m still conferencing:

• John Hawks discusses a paper in Science, “Middle Paleolithic Assemblages from the Indian Subcontinent Before and After the Toba Super-Eruption”, that discounts the theory that the Mount Toba eruption wiped out the majority of the human population around 74,000 years ago.
• Semantic Compositions went to see the new Transformers movie, and, whilst he enjoyed himself, he was beset by niggling doubts about how Megatron learnt to speak English and discusses the evidence in light of standard language acquisition theories.
• Evolution in Action:
  

    It started with a biologist sitting on a grassy river bank in York, eating a sandwich. It ended in the discovery of a “scruffy little weed with no distinguishing features” that is the first new species to have been naturally created in Britain for more than 50 years.

• Q: How come no one knows where Genghis Khan is buried?

Posted on July 6th, 2007 by Simon Greenhill