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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
It's Sunday. http://rationalia.com/z/090824NSunday-work-hell.jpg
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(June 4, 2023 at 6:04 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Neanderthals were manufacturing birch tar (an adhesive resin made from burning birch bark) about 100 000 years before H. sapiens learned the trick.

Boru

That can have something to do with the fact that birch is a temperate and boreal species, ie for 100000 years it grew where Neanderthals were and H Sapiens weren’t.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
(June 4, 2023 at 11:38 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(June 4, 2023 at 6:04 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Neanderthals were manufacturing birch tar (an adhesive resin made from burning birch bark) about 100 000 years before H. sapiens learned the trick.

Boru

That can have something to do with the fact that birch is a temperate and boreal species, ie for 100000 years it grew where Neanderthals were and H Sapiens weren’t.

True enough, but it does help to dispel the popular notion that Neanderthals weren't terribly bright. Even a good few paleonanthropologists were long wedded to the notion that our cousins used fire for only for cooking and heat. That they also used it in a manufacturing process is pretty significant.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
yes, Neanderthals had somewhat larger brains than their contemporary anatomically modern HSS populations.  what is more, the lineage of neanderthals seems to have had big brains for significantly longer than the lineage of HSS.   so neanderthals may already have been smart when homo sapiens were even dumber.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Apparently, The Bobby Fuller Four recorded "I Fought the Law" multiple times, and in one (Commercially released on an LP!) version of the song, he replaced the word "fun" in the line "I miss my baby and the good fun" with "fuck."





And this isn't even a misheard lyric, since other recordings (specifically the single version) actually say "fun" more clearly:





Note: I know that there are some cases where the artists have to re-record a song to make certain lyrics clearer (e.g. The Kinks' "Apeman" had to re-record the line "The Air Pollution is a-foggin' up my eyes" to make sure they weren't saying "A-fuckin' up my eyes.") This is not one of those cases, however.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
the pyramid of Cheops, the largest of Egyptian pyramids,  has a large hidden unfinished corridor that no one knew about until last month.     Since it is unfinished, it probably does not lead to any hidden cache of Atlantean wisdom the preservation of which new age mystics often insist is the real purpose for these pyramids.
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(June 5, 2023 at 2:22 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: the pyramid of Cheops, the largest of Egyptian pyramids,  has a large hidden unfinished corridor that no one knew about until last month.     Since it is unfinished, it probably does not lead to any hidden cache of Atlantean wisdom the preservation of which new age mystics often insist is the real purpose for these pyramids.

Are we sure it was actually unfinished? I only ask because I remember reading that the pyramids frequently had dead-end passages (and I wouldnt be surprised if some had multiple dead ends) specifically to trick robbers who wanted to steal from the late Pharaoh’s hoard. Granted, they didn’t actually work all that well, since everyone but Tutankhamun ended up having their tombs robbed anyway, but that was the idea.
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The stones on the walls, ceiling and floor of the newly discovered passage is left in very rough shape, like it was unfinished.   

We know from other places in the pyramids, even interior surfaces of purely structure features that were never meant to be seen again once construction of that part of the pyramid has been completed, were still smoothed.
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