In this fascinating Aeon piece, archaeologist April Nowell explores our changing understanding of Paleolithic childhood and how modern socio-cultural prejudices, along with the difficulty in finding skeletal remains of children,… Read the rest of the article: What was it like being a child during the last Ice Age
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Gareth Branwyn The reality competition show formula continues to march towards its singularity, now with a fine art re-skin. The Smithsonian (shame on you) has partnered with MTV (natch) to auto-generate The… Read the rest of the article: Fine art as a reality competition show? Of course
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Gareth Branwyn In this "Hot Take" segment from the animated Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News, the Fox & Friends-like hosts question comedian Tig Notaro on her reaction to the wokeness… Read the rest of the article: Tig Notaro questioned about a "Super Bowl gone woke"
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Gareth Branwyn In this Tested video, Norm Chan visits Blackhawk Films, a scanning facility in Southern California, to watch the restoration process as a 100-year-old Max Fleischer classic, Koko the Clown, is… Read the rest of the article: Restoring 100-year-old Max Fleischer cartoons
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Gareth Branwyn We all know the tragic, mythic story of the library of Alexandria, filled with priceless, critical knowledge of the ancient world, destroyed at the hands of Julius Caesar and his… Read the rest of the article: What really happened to the library of Alexandria?
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Gareth Branwyn As Becky Stern says in the introduction to her latest With Becky Stern video for Digi-Key, "one of the Arduino community's superpowers is code libraries: bundles of specialized programming that… Read the rest of the article: Understanding code libraries for Arduino programming
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Gareth Branwyn The Duché de Bicolline is a permanent LARPing (Live Action Roleplaying) village in Quebec, Canada. There are hundreds of wooden structures, tent villages, a fort, and a battlefield. Because cellphones,… Read the rest of the article: Taking a tour of the world's largest permanent LARPing town
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Gareth Branwyn Like most of us, E.C. Henry had a sense that the Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation was a huge spaceship. But how huge? In this video, to get… Read the rest of the article: Just how enormous is the Star Trek Enterprise-D?
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Gareth Branwyn It's hard to imagine that these sorts of enormous, human-made mines, this one with 60' ceilings, exist all over the world. It's equally hard to believe that extensive cave systems,… Read the rest of the article: Check out this breathtaking crystal cave found inside of a huge marble mine
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Gareth Branwyn If you're a fan of the Hot Ones show (where celebrities try and answer questions while being overwhelmed by some of the hottest pepper sauces in the world) you've probably… Read the rest of the article: Feel the heat as YouTubers Tom Scott and Gavin Free brave the spiciest pepper sauces from Hot Ones
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Gareth Branwyn Our good friend and colleague, R.U. Sirius, spends an hour talking with Tim Ventura about his countercultural, neo-psychedelic origins, the early days of cyberculture and his magazine, Mondo 2000, the… Read the rest of the article: Fantastic interview with cyberculture iconoclast R.U. Sirius
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Gareth Branwyn If you've wondering who's behind those warm, fuzzy, and seemingly inclusive Jesus Gets Us ads that are all over TV, did you have "shadowy Christian billionaires" on your bingo card.… Read the rest of the article: Wondering who's behind those "Jesus Gets Us" TV ads?
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Gareth Branwyn The Unglamorous Music project is Leicester-based collective of mainly older women who play punk rock music. The women, many in their 50s, 60s, and 70s, come together to play punk… Read the rest of the article: A UK collective of female elder punks bashing it out
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Gareth Branwyn When I was a teen, my Florida-retired granddad had a 1961 Chrysler Imperial. This was in the late 60s and his '61 Imperial might as well have been moments from… Read the rest of the article: The ridiculously space age instrument panel on the 1961 Chrysler Imperial
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Gareth Branwyn Our friend, sci-fi and horror author, John Shirley, talks to CatSynth TV, about his influences and writing process, working as a musician and writing lyrics for Blue Oyster Cult, writing… Read the rest of the article: Interview with author and musician John Shirley
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Gareth Branwyn Failure to Launch: A Tour of Ill-Fated Futures, currently being crowdfunded by Iron Circus, is a full color 300+ page comics collection that's a "light-hearted, educational look at unrealized technological… Read the rest of the article: Failure to Launch: A Tour of Ill-Fated Futures
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Gareth Branwyn Michael Ladden bought a 1994 Stewart & Stevenson M1079 military vehicle a few years ago that only had 5,000 miles on it. He spent $18,000 on the truck and some… Read the rest of the article: Turning a military truck into a tiny home overlander
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Gareth Branwyn In this Tested video, Adam Savage tours the "Crafting Pinocchio" exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. The show attempts to open a window into the behind-the-scenes process of creating… Read the rest of the article: Touring the Crafting Pinocchio show at MoMA
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Gareth Branwyn Looper has put together a round-up of 11 fantasy book adaptations coming to the small screen in 2023 and beyond. These include The Power (premiering on March 31), Nnedi Okorafor's… Read the rest of the article: Fantasy book adaptations coming to the small screen in the near future
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Gareth Branwyn In this All In with Chris Hayes segment, he discusses the alarming trend of declining life expectancy in the United States. The country has seen a decrease in life expectancy… Read the rest of the article: Chris Hayes on the dramatic decline in US life expectancy