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‘Sophisticated’ Bronze Age city unearthed in Kazakhstan ‘transforms our understanding of steppe societies’
Archaeologists have uncovered a sprawling Bronze Age settlement on the steppe of Kazakhstan that was likely a major early city in its heyday about 3,600 years ago, a new study reports. The early city of Semiyarka spanned 346 acres (140 hectares) — more than four times larger than contemporaneous villages …
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Ancient trees’ inefficient photorespiration may have helped stabilize Earth’s atmosphere during last ice age
Some of the key samples in the study came from the La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California, where researchers analyzed ancient juniper wood preserved in tar. The team found clear signs of elevated photorespiration in the samples, meaning that the trees were releasing CO2 back into the atmosphere nearly …
Kamala Harris Pushes to Lower Voting Age to 16, Citing ‘Climate Anxiety’ Among Teens [WATCH]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is again drawing controversy after calling for the national voting age to be lowered to 16, arguing that younger Americans are facing what she described as “climate anxiety.” Harris made the remarks during an appearance on The Diary of a CEO podcast hosted by Steven …
The Post-Technological Age is Drawing Closer as Gen Z Starts Unplugging
by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact News I have been writing since the fourth quarter of 2022 that digital technology, which began in the early 1980s with the introduction of “personal computers”, has reached its peak, and would eventually begin to decline into what I called a “Post-Technological Age.” This doesn’t …
Learning in the Age of Social Media
Maria is a student who lives in a small town in Ecuador. She found math very hard because her school didn’t have a teacher who could help her with big math problems. One day, while using her phone, she found a group on Facebook called Calculus Crusaders. In this group, …
30,000-year-old ‘toolkit’ found in Czech Republic reveals ‘very rare’ look at Stone Age hunter-gatherer
Around 30,000 years ago, a hunter-gatherer left behind what may be a “personal toolkit” in what is now the Czech Republic, a new study finds. Researchers uncovered the extraordinary cluster of artifacts in 2021 during an excavation at the Paleolithic site of Milovice IV. The “kit” contains 29 stone blades …
Carbon cycle flaw could push Earth into an ice age as planet overcorrects for warming
Computer simulation of Earth’s climate evolving over 1 million years in response to a sudden release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Credit: Andy Ridgwell/UCR UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its carbon. As a result, they believe …
Thawing permafrost raised carbon dioxide levels after the last ice age, study shows
Thawing permafrost on Herchel Island, Canada. Credit: Boris Radosavljevic Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere vary naturally between ice ages and interglacial periods. A new study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg shows that an unexpectedly large proportion of carbon dioxide emissions after the ice age may have come …
Yanis Varoufakis: Welcome to the age of technofeudalism
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Britain’s government will lower voting age to 16 to try to keep power
Keir Starmer, Labour Party leader and Prime Minister, with former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn Young people in Britain disproportionately vote for the Labour Party, while the elderly provide much of the votes for the opposition Conservative Party. So Britain’s Labour-controlled government is lowering the voting age to 16. “The British …
Age Gap Couple Arrested at $4M Mansion After Having Twenty One Children by Surrogates
A California couple have been accused of running a suspected baby surrogate-fueled human trafficking ring that involved at least 21 children. Guojun Xuan, 65, and Silvia Zhang, 38, were arrested in May for felony child endangerment after cops descended on their $4.1 million home in Arcadia, initially responding to reports …
Human rights must anchor the digital age, says UN’s Türk — Global Issues
Digital technologies have the potential to drive progress and strengthen rights, including connecting people, improving access to health and education, and much more. But the pace of their evolution also poses serious risks, warned Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – from restrictions on free expression and privacy …
Are We Getting Wiser with Age
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Sun Chariot: An ornate Bronze Age treasure that may have featured in an ancient Nordic religious ceremony
Name: Sun Chariot What it is: A bronze and gold leaf diorama of a horse pulling a sun disk Where it is from: Trundholm moor, in Zealand, Denmark You may like When it was made: Circa 1400 B.C. Related: Prosciutto di Portici: A portable sundial that looks like a pork …
GOLDEN AGE: Inflation Numbers Down; Grocery Prices: Biggest Drop in Five Years, JPMorgan Drops Prediction of U.S. Recession
Inflation numbers Down; grocery prices: biggest drop in five years. Bombshell economic news the dying legacy media won’t report. But it doesn’t matter, the American people see it, feel it in the daily social fabric of their lives. NEC Director Kevin Hassett: “Inflation was down, way down, in the CPI …
Mike Baker: The age of America is coming to an end
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Dementia falls by two-thirds, for people in most age groups
Image: CBS video screen grab When you get old, your chance of dementia is two-thirds lower than it used to be 40 years ago, reports The Doomslayer. But there are so many more old people alive today than there were 40 years ago, that the fraction of Americans with dementia …
Endangered tortoise becomes mom of four at age 97
“A rare, Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise who is estimated to be 97 has become the oldest known first-time mother of her species,” reports the Washington Post. The elderly tortoise’s name is Mommy. She lived most of her life in the Philadelphia Zoo, since arriving there in 1932. The father …
European hunter-gatherers boated to North Africa during Stone Age, ancient DNA suggests
Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new research suggests. Ancient DNA collected from the remains of Stone Age individuals from the eastern Maghreb region, which spans Tunisia and northeastern Algeria, revealed that they may have descended, in part, from …
