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At Site of Oldest Known Human Burials, 145,000-Year-Old Skull Reveals Earliest Documented Stabbing

The Qafzeh cave, in present-day Israel, has brought to light one of the most significant fossil assemblages for tracing the first steps of Homo sapiens outside Africa, but a new examination of the ...

Japan now has a Pokémon airport that features every species of Flying-type ever[Video]

Noto Satoyama Pokémon With You Airport wants to help bring travelers to a part of Japan that could use more visitors. For domestic flights, the standard recommendation is to get to the airport an h...

Autoconf’s revenge: ad-hoc shell templates

How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect As powerful as Bazel is, sometimes it’s not featureful enough. When using this build system, it’s common practice to wrap i...

ORICO 88 Series 4-Bay USB4 NVMe SSD Enclosure Review: Fast Storage That Works Natively on Linux

A compact 4-bay NVMe enclosure with USB4 connectivity, tested on Linux with benchmarks.

David of Oxford

Asher of Lincoln had a son, David, who married a local woman, Muriel, and at some point moved to Oxford, where he lived in a house on St. Aldate's (now site of the Oxford Town Hall), where Oxford J...

“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”: Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage

Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock character of the pedant and his association with individual superiority, social dist...

Airport Meeting

Relevance

To say that I don't write every day to maintain relevance would be a lie. I do want to stay relevant to my readers, but not for anyone else's sake—only for (You). Thankfully, my site is structured ...

Is The Supreme Court Putting Money On The Merits? — See Also

SCOTUS Betting On Its Own Cases? It shouldn't be this hard for Chief Justice Roberts to answer this one. More People Come Out Against Todd Blanche's nomination for the Attorney General Role: But wh...

It’s Full Steam Ahead for This Motorized Canoe

In some parts of Canada, you’ll rarely hear someone use the phrase “whatever paddles your canoe” instead of the more usual “whatever floats your boat”– and apparently, at least for …read more

Unexpected Comeback In The Bagging Area

Read Unexpected Comeback In The Bagging Area I've just moved to a new neighborhood, and I'm walking into the local grocery store for the first time. As I'm passing the checkouts, I overhear: Custom...

$150K Settlement as to Community College "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility" Requirements for Teaching

The Institute for Free Speech, which represented Bakersfield College Prof. Daymon Johnson, reports: Johnson has secured a settlement that makes… The post $150K Settlement as to Community College "D...

The new Apple Intelligence camera features in the Home app will require a 2TB iCloud+ plan

Apple Intelligence camera features in the Home app will require at least the 2TB iCloud+ plan. The requirement applies to new camera tools launching with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate...

Nuclear Integration With Russia Eroding Belarusian Sovereignty

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Daily News Stuff 7 July 2026

Old Lamps For Old Edition Top Story Beelink has launched its EQi Wildcat Lake mini-PC build around Intel's new low-end Core 3 304 CPU. (Liliputing) Starting at $509 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SS...

Bahn-Wettbewerb

Katja Diehl hält es für schädlich, dass die Bahngesellschaft Italo in Deutschland zwei Strecken übernimmt.

📝 2026-07-07 18:43: Guinea fowl keets are doing great too. All 5 are loving life with their foster...

Guinea fowl keets are doing great too. All 5 are loving life with their foster mums. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or lea...

Famous sweets store in Ameyoko fills a bag with sweets and a show, but is it still worth it?

This bargain bag comes with a unique performance, but things have changed over the years. Ameyoko (short for Ameya Yokocho, or “Candy Store Alley”) has changed dramatically over the years. Starting...

Illegitimate Children in Ancient Sparta: A Study Reveals They Were Not Marginalized, but a Key Piece in the Social Machinery of the Warrior Myth

The image of Sparta that has come down to us is that of a closed, militarized, and extremely rigid society, where only true-born citizens — the so-called homoioi or “equals” — had rights, and where...

Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858)

Selections from a peculiar British journal that focus on the peculiarities of British monarchs.