I don’t know how I first ran across the original version of this time-lapse video taken on Mauna Kea in Hawaii (home of many telescopes). At any rate, I found it an unexpectedly poignant look at humankind’s place in the cosmos. The majestic night sky wheels overhead impervious to all the little human movements going [...]
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Friday video: A bit of perspective
Several perennially fascinating questions arise in the study of humankind: What makes us so different from other animals? Was there some turning point or specific development that marks the emergence of uniquely human behavior? In other words, how did we become human? A recent workshop at Arizona State University, “Origins of Human Uniqueness and Behavioral [...]
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The making of humanity
The other night I watched the women’s free skating in the Olympics. As always, I thought I wouldn’t mind seeing a few more of the skaters a little further down the ranks; even if they aren’t in the running for a medal, the fact that they made it to the Olympics means they are [...]
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Third place can be better than second
When I was an undergraduate, there was a cartoon posted on the wall of a student computing cluster in Swain East at Indiana University that I really liked. (The room was full of VT100 terminals that we used to connect to the university’s VAXes, just to give you an idea how long ago this was.) [...]
How daydreams can affect your thinking
A recent find on Crete shakes up the current view of human prehistory. Archaeologists have found more than 2,000 stone tools, including hand axes, probably dating back at least 130,000 years on the southern shore of Crete. This is more than 100,000 years earlier than previously known arrivals at islands in that part of the [...]
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Early human (or prehuman?) seafarers
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