A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males. The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution BY RICHARD WRANGHAM PANTHEON When i was studying for my doctorate, in the…
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The Fortingall Yew has been male for centuries, so maybe it’s finally time to branch out. The Fortingall Yew may be thousands of years old, but that doesn’t mean it’s old-fashioned. In fact, despite having…
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Thanks to an artistic recreation, we now know Roman emperor Nero was a literal neckbeard
Roman emperor Nero is not remembered in a very positive light. There’s that whole thing with him murdering his mother, the bit about him killing his first wife, all that other stuff about murdering Christians…
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This ‘129 Ways to Get a Husband’ Article From 1958 Shows How Much The World Has Changed
How would you respond if someone asked you to describe the 1950s? Maybe you’d mention the Cold War between The United States and the Soviet Union? Elvis becoming more and more popular? The first satellites…
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Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse
Native to central and southern Europe, the amphibious alpine newt breeds in shallow water, where its larvae are born, hatch and feed on plankton, before sprouting legs and moving to land. This timelapse video from…
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RELIGION ROYALTY TRADITIONS Henry VIII’s Demon-Faced Horned Helmet Was Designed For Use In Parades Rather Than For Combat
Made by Austrian goldsmith Konrad Seusenhofer, a leading armor manufacturer of the 16-th century, this strange-looking Horned helmet was originally part of a suit of armor presented by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I to…
Back into the history, people were little bit weird. They are taking pictures funny dressed, with some really strange people, and I wanna say thanks to all people who saved these pictures, and allow us…
Artists impression of Titanic II leaving New York Harbor. Photo by Roderick Eime CC BY 2.0 Titanic II is on the way, but it’s not a movie. A replica ship is being made in China…
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Iranian women – before and after the Islamic Revolution
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair – the old Shah, in…
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Iran revolution: ‘I wore a hijab and head-banged to Nirvana’
On my first day of school in Iran we walked down a poorly-lit corridor. I was holding my mother’s hand and crying. She was crying too. On my head I had a black hood, known…