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Humans Invented Cooked Food Over 2 Million Years Ago
According to researchers, humans may have learned how to cook food as early as 2 million years ago. Continue reading
Meteorites May Contain DNA Building Blocks
Scientists have found rare, “life-creating” chemicals on deep space meteorites — which lends new evidence to how humans may have come to be. Continue reading
Social Amoeba, Emergent Agriculture
Microbiologists have discovered a simple kind of farming in the simplest social organisms—cooperative amoeba. Continue reading
Black Widow Hospitality
Wasteful predation might not be a mistake for the occasionally post-coitally cannibalistic black widow spider. Instead, having extra food around may help put a skittish potential mate’s fears to rest. Continue reading
E.O. Wilson: The Lily Pads Are Getting Worried
In an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, E. O. Wilson’s warning: evolution has its times and its textures, and we risk making out its patterns too late. Continue reading
Leviathan 2.0
The evolutionary ebb and flow of freedom, liberty, and the collective continues on the Web, as it has throughout the history of the public sphere. Continue reading
Wonderful Gallery of Science: Archaeopteryx
We know about Archaeopteryx lithographica thanks to an image-making process found in the Earth’s crust. Continue reading
Giant storks and the hobbits of Flores
On the Indonesian island of Flores, researchers have discovered the remains of a giant bird that might have preyed on the mysterious and controversial Homo floresiensis, an extinct, diminutive close relative of modern humans. Continue reading
Kevin Kelly: technology wants autonomy
To Kelly, the advance guard of the technium is to be found among the quadrillions of computer chips networked into vast electronic systems. But It may be difficult to discern whether the desires driving that process belong to technology, or are our own. Continue reading
The Evolution of the Geek Flowchart (Infographic)
It all started so innocently. A simple linguistic evolution. Geckus led to geek which eventually led to gleek and all of the numerous off roads. It wasn’t until the 1950s that the word geek became a part of culture, but geeks have always existed, even if the word didn’t. Flowtown created this helpful flowchart infographic to show the evolution of the geeks and their various subcultures. Check out the source for the full-sized image. Hit the jump to see the... Continue reading
