Analysis of 85 pieces of Mesolithic pottery from hunter-gatherer-fisher communities in northeastern Europe shows the value of combining analytical techniques to improve the understanding of ancient diets and cooking methods.
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It seems the paleo diet wasn't as paleo as once thought!
A new analysis of carbonized foodcrusts from ancient pottery reveals a previously overlooked pattern of diverse and selective plant use by ancient humans across northern and eastern Europe.
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
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Learn more about how we got daylight savings in the first place, and importantly, if it's even effective at doing what it was meant to do: saving energy.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
You definitely shouldn't blame farmers though!
When DST was first implemented in the US, farmers largely opposed it, and were a force behind its 1919 cancellation. Modern farmers are often just as opposed.
- John James Carrick, who was mayor of Port Arthur, Ontario, in 1908, when it became the place in the world to enact permanent DST
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose death triggered WWI, during which, the UK, its first World War allies, the US and most neutral European nations enacted clock changes
- William Willett proposed similar in 1907, in part to allow more golf time in the evenings
- Benjamin Franklin, who, in 1784, suggested Parisians could save on candles by waking up earlier with the sun.
If you woke up a bit tired this morning thanks to daylight savings, you have a few options for who to blame:
- George Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist, who suggested to the Wellington Philosophical Society, and wrote a 1898 paper in support of changing the clocks get more daylight bug hunting time
The best/worst part is that I wasn't even in that episode.
Certainly one of the physical bookstores I've checked will have a copy.
Or if not them, then surely an online retailer.
Or if not that, maybe a digital copy.
Or I could be doomed to never finish this story, that I was very invested in, because I won't pay $70 CAD for a novel published 20 years ago.
Imagine my delight to find out that they're making it into a movie. And a major one! With Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson and Patrick Stewart! It's coming out in May! It's called The Sheep Detectives!
Certainly, 3 months before release, it won't be impossible to find a copy of the book it's based on...
I waited 18 months for a library copy of Three Bags Full by Leonnie Swann after someone told me it was a bit like my favourite book, Watership Down. 18 months.
I started it, loved it, got very busy with work. The hold ended, I was only half done.
So now I start looking to buy a copy...
whimsical** ofc
I'm writing about acknowledgment sections for @chemistryworld.com.
How standardized do they have to be?
How whimsicle can they be?
How do students know how to write them? Who to thank?
Can a well-placed 'thank you' help your career?
If you have thoughts/experiences or opinions, I want to hear them!
Acknowledgementsments “I climb the “Hill of Science,” I view the landscape o’er, Such transcendental prospect, I ne’er beheld before” -Emily Dickinson
Have you written the acknowledgments section of your thesis yet?
I had no idea what I was doing when I did. That's probably why it contains poetry.
What is yours like? What guided how you wrote it? Did anyone fun get a shoutout in yours?
Tell me about it!
When I first sat down to write this, I thought I didn't really feel any kind of way about my first-gen experience.
Then I had to go cry for a bit, when I really remembered how embarrassing and demoralizing it felt every time I realized that, again, everyone knew something important that I didn't.
‘She kept talking about stickers and brought a dog to the office a few times. Very weird.’ - Jonathan Jarry
Can confirm: Ada McVean is hopelessly clueless. She'd show up at the Office asking what her name was. One day she spent five hours working out of the ladies' room thinking it was our Office.
Completely clueless. Cannot recommend.
When editors say not to bury the lede this is actually exactly what they mean
A very small consequence of being a first-gen student was not knowing how to write a thing like an acknowledgment section. Which I'm writing about now for @chemistryworld.com!
I didn't know who to thank. Did you? Who told you? Did you break with conventional form? I'd love to hear!
#ScienceSky
At first, I thought you were just confirming that I had no clue what I was doing, as a witness to it.
I spent my entire academic career realizing with horrifying clarity what I should have done years earlier.
Looking back, I have felt something that almost reeks of grief thinking about the mistakes I made and the opportunities I walked unknowingly by.
thank goodness I was getting so sick of the unhealthy varieties
I'm writing about the essential yet under-considered acknowledgments section for @chemistryworld.com
Get in touch!
adamcvean@/gmail./com
#AcademicChatter #ScienceSky
Tell me about the acknowledgements section of your thesis.
Did you find it difficult to write? Did you have guidance? Is yours unique? Funny? Terrible?
I'll admit it- mine has poetry.
Did a well-timed thank you help your career in some way?
Did you forget to thank someone and regret it?
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I know he’s a kid but he’s been spitting straight truths until now
I started The Hollow yesterday, and I’ll be properly surprised if this doesn’t end up being Chekov’s chemistry mistake.
Also though, I should call her.
These personalized ads are getting a bit *too* personal for my liking
You know, I never considered that and it’s brilliant!
The main problem with switching from Mac to Windows is that Preview works decently while Acrobat is a product of the devil.
