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20 votes
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A pole lathe for our cabin
5 votes -
Carthaginian war elephants | Units of History
10 votes -
NASA names headquarters after ‘hidden figure’ Mary W. Jackson
4 votes -
Deus Ex at twenty: The oral history of a pivotal PC game
11 votes -
Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
7 votes -
My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy
9 votes -
Cook a classical feast: Nine recipes from ancient Greece and Rome
7 votes -
Why Finnish people tell the truth – in Finland, people are assumed to be honest all the time, and trust is implicit unless proven otherwise
13 votes -
How do you feel board games have changed in the last twenty-five years?
Everyone always refers to the coming of Eurogames a long time back, but I'm wondering about modern games. Where have they come? Where will they go? I'd say the art has gotten better, more...
Everyone always refers to the coming of Eurogames a long time back, but I'm wondering about modern games. Where have they come? Where will they go? I'd say the art has gotten better, more eye-catching, but I'm more ambivalent about very recent (last five years) game mechanics.
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Did Europe have more mutations through its history?
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in...
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in hair color than almost anywhere else. Same with eye color. Why is this? Is it just because I interact with more people of European heritage on day to day business, or has Europe actually had more mutations which affect hair color, eye color, etc? Or is it that Europe, being a crossroads has had more people immigrate through it.
If this is racist, it's unintentional, this is just an observation, which I've been unable to find an answer to.
If you have an answer, a link to a paper would be great.
Edit: A point against what I just wrote that I thought of: Asia has both mono and double eyelids, which is something Europe doesn't have. Native americans don't count either for or against, since they immigrated fairly late in a small group, which also explains why almost all native americans are type O
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Iconic Prince 'Blue Angel' guitar, that was once considered lost, is sold for over $500,000
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The ancient history of board games
7 votes -
How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
9 votes -
How Cooper Black became pop culture’s favorite font
5 votes -
Oldest cookbook in the West | Ancient Roman mussels
6 votes -
The digital archives of the oldest Black newspaper in America show a long struggle for justice
5 votes -
An oral history of Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6 votes -
Protest music of the Bush era
12 votes -
The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game - Atari 2600 game Entombed
17 votes -
Fifty years ago today Dock Ellis famously threw a no-hitter while tripping on acid
9 votes -
HBO Max temporarily removes Gone with the Wind because of ‘racist depictions’
9 votes -
The evolution of game genres on early Nintendo consoles: NES, Game Boy, and SNES
5 votes -
A neat introduction to representation theory and its impact on mathematics
5 votes -
My favourite football game – when Denmark beat Uruguay 6-1 at the 1986 World Cup (Michael Gibbons, co-author of "Danish Dynamite" with Rob Smyth and Lars Eriksen)
7 votes -
How seventy years of cop shows taught us to valorize the police
10 votes -
Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project
4 votes -
When phones were fun: Samsung's "Matrix Phone" (2003)
8 votes -
What if the internet never existed?
5 votes -
Marie Curie's PhD thesis
8 votes -
Last person to receive an American Civil War pension dies
17 votes -
Retrotech: The Novell NetWare Experience
4 votes -
Why helicopter airlines failed
6 votes -
The story of how NASA went from space shuttles to SpaceX and commercial rockets
8 votes -
Trump's "law and order" rhetoric won't help him like Nixon in 1968
10 votes -
Bach's Brandenberg Concerto No. 3 played on period instruments
4 votes -
John Titor
11 votes -
Riots are the American way: The US was founded on revolutionary blood; the Civil War took 400,000 lives and the civil rights movement was a reaction to white violence
18 votes -
Did the Italians actually teach the French the art of the vinaigrette?
5 votes -
1968 and 2020: How they resemble each other and how they don't
9 votes -
How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
6 votes -
US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission
6 votes -
Australia's High Court decides 'Palace letters' written during the Whitlam dismissal can be accessed by historian Jenny Hocking
6 votes -
Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
6 votes -
GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years
7 votes -
Subutai: Genghis Khan’s demon dog of war
5 votes -
The cool history of ice cream (in America) | The Ice Cream Show Episode 9
3 votes -
Get in shape girl: A century of working out from home
5 votes -
IBM's dance notation typewriter
10 votes -
The tempest prognosticator
4 votes