Posts tagged "history"

Apr 08, 2026 from Palladium

The Total Art of Flat Design

The digital era has brought about a flattening of art and culture, creating a world where depth and texture have become transgressive. The post The Total Art of Flat Design appeared first on Pallad...

Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-08-26

Another day ending in -day (that isn’t Saturday) means it is time for another edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Astonishing Find in the Czech Republic: Hikers Discover a 3.7 Kilogram Serbian/Bosnia...

Apr 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

New findings in the Plain of Jars of Laos, the megalithic structures that still nobody knows when or by whom they were created

Since 2016 an archaeological team made up of researchers from Australia and Laos, led by Louise Shewan, Dougald O’Reilly and Thonglith Luangkhoth, has developed a research project in the so-called ...

Apr 08, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Conrad, King of Jerusalem?

Frederick II (1194 - 1250) was King of Germany, King of Italy, King of Sicily, and Holy Roman Emperor. He agreed to go on Crusade, but wanted to be King Jerusalem when he got to the Holy Land. So i...

Apr 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Neanderthal children hunted pond turtles in Central Europe 125,000 years ago, but not to eat them

An international research team led by Professor Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, from the Institute of Ancient Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the archaeological research cent...

Apr 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A mound on a small Norwegian island contains a pre-Viking-era ship burial that matches the Sutton Hoo graves in England in age

Beneath a huge mound of earth measuring 62 meters in diameter and more than 12 meters in its original height, on the small island of Leka, off the Norwegian coast, a team of archaeologists discover...

Apr 08, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists discover 108 life forms in the deepest ocean trenches of Japan, including carnivorous sponges and a strange animal that could not be identified

A two-month scientific expedition aboard the vessel DSSV Pressure Drop has managed to shed light on one of the most inaccessible ecosystems on the planet, the abyssal and hadal depths of the northw...

Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Storing Photos on Someone Else’s Computer

Wojtek Powiertowski wrote a pair of interesting blog posts on backing up photos and checking photos for bitrot. Both posts are interesting and include valuable tips for protecting digital photo col...

Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Japan’s Oil Imports

Access to natural resources has long been a challenge for Japan (see e.g., World War II). According to a report by Alex Kimani for OilPrice.com, prior to the commencement of Operation Epic Fury, Ja...

Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

April’s Pink Moon

The Moon has been in the news lately thanks to the Artemis II Mission. I shared a Supermoon fact back in December and “blood Moon” news in the March 1, 2026 Pook-Emu Bee. While checking the local w...

Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-07-26

I have a few new work assignments today (Sad!) but more than enough time (or just enough time) for our regularly scheduled edition of daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. OpenAI calls for robot taxes, a pu...

Apr 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Early Humans Already Had Fixed Quarries in South Africa 220,000 Years Ago, Returning to Them for Generations to Obtain Stone for Their Tools

An international research team led by the University of Tübingen has documented at the Jojosi site, in eastern South Africa, that Middle Paleolithic human groups deliberately and repeatedly extract...

Apr 07, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Assize on Liege-homage

We think of the Magna Carta as an important moment in legislative history, when laws forced a king to relinquish some power to others of lesser rank. Something similar took place several years befo...

Apr 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A Byzantine fort discovered in Elda, built by the garrison of the Eastern Roman Empire on the Visigothic frontier of southeastern Iberia

A team of archaeologists led by Antonio Manuel Poveda Navarro, of the Fundación Urbs Regia, has published an extensive study in the journal SALDVIE of the University of Zaragoza demonstrating that ...

Apr 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Pre-Hispanic Equinoctial Alignments Discovered in Cuicuilco: The Apparent Path of the Sun Coincides with the Cempohuallapohualli Calendar

An archaeoastronomical study conducted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), through the Department of Cultural Outreach of the National School of Anthropology and History (...

Apr 07, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

There Are Constant Numbers in the Universe: How an Indian Mathematician Discovered the Mystery of 6174

In the vast and sometimes arid desert of number theory, there are oases of unexpected beauty. One of them, bright and hidden, was discovered by an Indian teacher who taught mathematics in a small t...

Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

March 2026 Review (NLJ Link)

Over on The New Leaf Journal, I published my review of the month that was on NLJ, this humble publication, our newsletter, and my Pixelfed account. In the article, I shared our top-24 most-visited ...

Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Grokipedia Thinks I Wrote About Persona Q2 (I Have Never Played Persona Q2)

I became aware that Grokipedia, the Grok-powered AI answer to Wikipedia, had cited to my NLJ article Outline Guide to Persona 3 FES The Answer. I previously wrote about Grokipedia making questionab...

Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Touching the Gowanus Canal?

I recently came across Clive Thompson’s Linkfest newsletter (hosted on Buttondown just like my own Newsletter Leaf Journal). Each issue consists of links he collected from around the web with comme...

Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-06-26

The Pook-Emu Bee, your favorite (or “favourite” if you prefer British English) daily links collection, returns after taking two days off for Newsletter Leaf Journal Saturday and Easter. 1. E-Bikes ...