Tue. 12/29 - How Humans Began to Read and Write
- Author
- Cool Stuff Ride Home
- Published
- Tue 29 Dec 2020
- Episode Link
- https://chrt.fm/track/G481GD/pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/0e49624f-553e-45fd-be6e-44b9fa5d0d58/Tuesday2C20December20292C202020Edit20120-20123A293A202C203.1320PM.mp3
How is it that humans figured out how to read? New cosmological findings that may finally solve the Hubble tension. And, more monoliths continue to pop up, a look at two of the more interesting ones from this past week.
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Links:
Reading, That Strange and Uniquely Human Thing (Nautilus)
Language is a tool, a technology (NomeDaBarbarian, Twitter)
Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse (Quanta)
Mysterious monolith appears in Pittsfield (WCAX)
Photos of gingerbread monolith (Alexis Gallagher, Twitter)
Christmas Day Wonder: Gingerbread Monolith Mysteriously Appears at SF Park (KQED)
Gingerbread monolith delights San Francisco on Christmas Day (AP)
Kottke.Org
Jackson Bird on Twitter
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