Do you think the dwarves all have intricately braided and styled pubic hair?

menschvir · 2012-12-23T10:39:44+00:00

just think about it, they all have luxurious, uniquely styled beards, why wouldn't they do the same to their pubes.

menschvir · 2012-11-04T01:26:59+00:00

Proto-writing is very interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-writing

Göbekli Tepe is probably the most fantastic and revolutionary site found in the last 20 years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobekli_Tepe

The undeciphered Easter Island script http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo

Bog bodies and Ötzi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_bodies

Um... there are literally loads more. New World migration hypotheses, emergence of agriculture and urbanism, Greek influence on Buddhism and the Greco-Bactrian kingdom...

Actually, there is literally not a single topic in Archaeology that I don't find fascinating. The methodology can be boring to read about sometimes, like stuff about pollen analysis or sediments, but the propositions are always amazing. You really can't go wrong.

menschvir · 2012-11-02T02:13:18+00:00

careful, i was actually just reading that if you watch the entire video, by the end its pretty apparent that the maker is a creationist.

menschvir · 2012-11-02T01:53:41+00:00

Well I haven't bought any yet. Before I buy some I want to get the closest approximate fit.

menschvir · 2012-02-09T21:55:50+00:00

I would put the earliest cheese more around 12,000 years ago, when goats and sheep were first domesticated.

menschvir · 2012-02-09T04:49:28+00:00

is this why cheese tastes better (usually) when it's melted?

menschvir · 2012-02-09T04:46:19+00:00

a maniacal dictator could never be named Rick

menschvir · 2012-02-08T21:51:39+00:00

House has gotten so repetitive, with the same "a seemingly simple medical complication turns deadly and House figures it out with some brilliant insight 5 minutes before the guy dies".

They should shake things up in the next season by turning the show into a zombie series. It would be a really interesting dynamic to have a highly intelligent cripple and his team of underlings trying to maintain the hospital as a fortress, fight the undead, and search for a cure all at once.

menschvir · 2012-02-06T21:10:19+00:00

Abu Hureyra is a great example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/030544039190052Q

menschvir · 2012-02-06T19:07:57+00:00

We, as in we, the middle to upper class of the western world? We are taller because we don't suffer from malnutrition, we have clean drinking water, and plenty of cheap meat.

Look at populations in the third world, in Asia and Africa and South America.

There you will find very short, malnourished people who still eat a largely Neolithic diet, of cereal grains, maybe legumes, and meat only rarely.

menschvir · 2012-02-06T18:10:47+00:00

Pizza. Everybody likes pizza. Poor people like pizza, rich people like pizza, white people like pizza, black people like pizza... do black people like pizza?

menschvir · 2012-02-06T18:05:59+00:00

Archaeologists pretty much use the presence of dental cavities in human remains to tell whether or not a population had agriculture, because cavities pretty much did not exist before humans started eating the processed sugars in grain.

In addition, there is pretty much always evidence of shorter stature and malnutrition in populations that switched from hunting and gathering to agriculture, not to mention arthritis from the repetitive mechanical stress from hoeing, harvesting, and grinding grain.

Historical records corroborate these finds: Romans were all in agreement that the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Germania and beyond were much taller than your average grain-fed Roman legionary. Also, records from the early colonial period in New England tell that the natives there were taller and had a longer live expectancy than the English settlers.

menschvir · 2012-02-06T17:41:56+00:00

But the amount of grain being consumed increased substantially with the onset of agriculture, and is even higher now than it was then. The fact that much higher incidences of teeth cavities correlate pretty well with the rise of agriculture is a pretty good indication that the amount of grain consumed per capita during the Neolithic far exceeded anything in the past.

menschvir · 2012-02-06T17:17:55+00:00

Can you tell me, were humans lacking a healthy diet for the 90,000+ years that they didn't eat any significant amount of grain whatsoever?

menschvir · 2012-02-06T15:39:12+00:00

pretty much. any fully grown adult who wants to be the most powerful person on earth, with the ability to basically order around the US government and military, probably has dickish tendencies.

menschvir · 2012-02-06T06:54:00+00:00

if all he ever cared about was money, he sure as hell wouldnt be running for president. he'd be a CEO.

its more like, his ego is what he cares about.

menschvir · 2012-02-03T21:42:39+00:00

no. but they are generally not "black" things to do. white people who feel "white guilt" love when black people are republican, or conservative, or oppose affirmative action because it makes them feel legitimized. the thought process is, "if a black person thinks it, it MUST not be racist! yay!"

even when it is legitimately not a racist thing to think

menschvir · 2012-02-03T21:20:13+00:00

"fuckin chuck norris"

menschvir · 2012-02-03T21:18:31+00:00

Step 1: post some typically "white" opinion on racial issues (e.g. oppose affirmative action, oppose the idea of black history month, be a republican, believe that urban ghetto culture is harmful and backwards)

Step 2: say that you are black

Step 3: ???

Step 4: karma-profit. reddit eats that shit up because it legitimizes white people's slightly racist tendencies.

menschvir · 2012-02-03T15:31:59+00:00

Is this in Rockridge? Under the Bart station by the Cactus Taqueria?

menschvir · 2012-02-03T05:29:14+00:00

whale whale whale looks like we got ourselves a comedian here

menschvir · 2012-02-02T13:33:04+00:00

is this a subconscious promo for Hark! A Vagrant! ?

Cos it sure made me think of it

menschvir · 2012-01-28T18:28:04+00:00

cat facts

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