It’s only fully modern humans who start this thing of venturing out on the ocean where you don’t see land. Part of that is technology, of course; you have to have ships to do it. But there is also, I like to think or say, some madness there. You know? How many people must have sailed out and vanished on the Pacific before you found Easter Island? I mean, it’s ridiculous. And why do you do that? Is it for the glory? For immortality? For curiosity? And now we go to Mars. We never stop.
Month: April 2017
It’s only fully modern humans who start this thing of venturing out on the ocean where you don’t see land. Part of that is technology, of course; you have to have ships to do it. But there is also, I like to think or say, some madness there. You know? How many people must have sailed out and vanished on the Pacific before you found Easter Island? I mean, it’s ridiculous. And why do you do that? Is it for the glory? For immortality? For curiosity? And now we go to Mars. We never stop.
Svante Pääbo, Swedish biologist, commenting on the way archaic humans like Homo erectus “spread like many other mammals in the Old World”, and why modern humans dare to sail the oceans and beyond.
Who—or what—broke this mastodon’s bones? The answer could upend our sense of how our ancestors settled the continent.
The earliest Americans might have arrived here millennia earlier than we thought. The (contested) proof: these bones
Who—or what—broke this mastodon’s bones? The answer could upend our sense of how our ancestors settled the continent.
The earliest Americans might have arrived here millennia earlier than we thought. The (contested) proof: these bones
I’m confidence cat
Episode 3: The Crooked Mile (Final) – The Wolf Among Us
Been re-watching X-Files and had to draw a 90′s grunge Dana Scully.
Been re-watching X-Files and had to draw a 90′s grunge Dana Scully.