188 medieval figurines that held Christian saints’ bones unearthed in Berlin’s oldest town square
Archaeologists have found 188 medieval reliquaries during excavations at a square in Berlin. Some of them still contain human bones of people considered to be saints or holy…
The Coldest Country in the World Is Below Freezing, on Average
Over our long history, humans have managed to thrive in a wide range of climates, from the very hot to the very cold. The modern world is different in many ways from the ancient, but we still live pretty much all over, in places that are sweltering and places that are absolutely frigid…Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest
New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought. These findings hint at a remarkably different life for early people in the Americas, one in which they may have spent millennia sharing prehistoric savannas and wetlands with…
Netflix scores rights to FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2027 and 2031
Netflix continues to grow its slate of live sporting events. The latest addition is the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Read more about the historic agreement…
Ubisoft’s New Game Has Rayman! And Blood Dragon! And NFTs!
Remember NFTs? They were this hilariously stupid and obvious scam from 2021, where people—and you’ll laugh—sold the “rights” to jpegs! Yeah, I know, those things you can right-click and make an infinite number of. So silly. Anyway, three years after that all collapsed, Ubisoft has launched a game featuring the grift.Read more…
Break the bad news bubble (Part 2) | Angus Hervey
It’s time for our periodic update of good news from Angus Hervey, founder of Fix the News, an independent publication that reports stories of global progress. In a quick talk, he shares three major updates of recent human progress on eradicating ancient diseases, establishing massive new ocean sanctuaries and transforming children’s rights…
MLK’s daughter urges Americans not to tune out Trump’s inauguration
The daughter of the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is telling Americans to “pay attention” to the words of President-elect Trump during his inauguration and also honor her father’s birthday. Why it matters: The inauguration and MLK Day fall on the same date in January…
Engaging new podcast asks what the big things are that make us human
Blazing the Trail, a new podcast from the Australian Museum, delves into topics from how language evolved to the implications of harnessing fire…
AI beats human experts at distinguishing American whiskey from Scotch
Using descriptions of flavours or chemical data, artificial intelligence can tell apart whiskies from different countries and identify their constituent aromas…