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I am delighted to share our latest piece of research:

‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’.

This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date.

A thread:

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Fun #linguistic fact for World Linguistics Day:

If North America had the same linguistic diversity as New Guinea we’d expect Indigenous Americans to speak ~28,000 languages.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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'The 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The Russians shared the paper with senior U.S. officials in mid-October' www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Everything is entirely sane on X.
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Can't find out if Cloudflare is down because Cloudflare being down has taken out DownDetector, along with half the internet.
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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How number systems shape our thinking and what it means for learning, language and culture
theconversation.com/how-number-s...
How number systems shape our thinking and what it means for learning, language and culture
A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Tuli Wettenhovi-Aspa mieleen kun opin, että Inkavaltakunnassa (ja nykyäänkin ketšuaksi) vauva oli "wawa".

Sittenpä tajusin, että "vauva" on onomatopoeettinen sana. Waawaa, niinhän tuo pieni tuossa vieressä sanoo.
Might not be well known outside of Finland, but this ”Finnish as the Original Language” theory of Wettenhovi-Aspa is a quality vintage example of exceedingly silly pseudoscience.
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Suomessa tuntuu aiheuttavan enemmän pelkoa vaikkapa asuntojen hintojen lasku kuin se, että koko maa muuttuu liki asuinkelvottomaksi.

Se on erikoinen homma se. Ja tälle ilmiölle (katastrofaalisten riskien vähättely/välttely) ei mielestäni ole vieläkään erityisen hyvää tieteellistä selitystä.
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️

In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"is space knotted" was a valid question in 1870.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_...
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Kaikki keinot on otettu käyttöön lahjoitusten keräämisessä Kiovan alueen lastensairaalalle. Jos haluatte lisää A.R. Minkkisen inspiroimia kuvia, tiedätte mitä tehdä:

RA/2025/1314
IBAN: FI74 8439 9710 1641 82
Teppo Mattsson
MobilePay: 30579
Kiitokset lahjoituksista! Olimme maailman laidalla
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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This is why they need anti-drone tunnels and helmets.
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Might not be well known outside of Finland, but this ”Finnish as the Original Language” theory of Wettenhovi-Aspa is a quality vintage example of exceedingly silly pseudoscience.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Scanning some old Kodachromes for a project. These are Tibetan monks at a summer camp in Zoige province, on the Sichuan-Gansu border, playing football, around 25 years ago
November 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Paljon on taas kritisoitu Akatemian rahoittamia humanistisia tutkimuksia.

Mutta kukaan ei kritisoi fysiikan alan päätöksiä.

Vaikka taaskaan kukaan ei tutki mielestäni tärkeimpiä fysiikan aiheita. Kuten vauvan ns. niskapaskan anatomiaa tai sitä, miten kivi todella lentää kenkään (jopa saappaaseen).
October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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This anthropology factoid brought to you by that dumb story about the next mayor of NYC who told a story about his "auntie", a woman who was his father's cousin, and then people saying he lied because his father's cousin isn't his aunt. English has an impoverished view of kinship terminology.
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Your monthly reminder that this still happening, every day, for years now. Modern russia is an evil backwards terrorist state.
UN report confirms that Russia is using drones to systematically target civilians in Ukraine.

“These attacks have a devastating impact on the civilian population living in the affected areas. They have caused extensive damage and destruction, leaving entire localities unliveable”
UN Commission says Russian drones target civilians and destroy infrastructure, making localities in frontline provinces of Ukraine unliveable
GENEVA / VIENNA – Russian armed forces have targeted civilians and a wide array of civilian objects using short-range drones in localities stretching over 300 kilometres along the right bank of the Dn...
www.ohchr.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Tuorein venäjän terrori-isku Kiovan siviilejä vastaan. Ihmiset huutavat: ”Auttakaa! Missä lapset?”

29 uhria, joista 6 lapsia. Tämän takia me tuemme Kiovan alueen lastensairaalaa. Osallistu 🙏

RA/2025/1314
IBAN: FI74 8439 9710 1641 82
Teppo Mattsson
MobilePay: 30579
October 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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New episode!! 🎉😱

A conversation with @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social & Natalie Lawrence about monsters of all kinds.

Monsters seem to be everywhere—our myths, our maps, our children's books, our political discourse. What do these creatures tell us about ourselves?

Listen: disi.org/monsters-and...
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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No nyt!

Tämä on merkittävä päätös: oikeus totesi, että Stansvikin hakkuut pysäyttäneet aktivistit toimivat pakkotilassa, ja heillä oli siksi oikeus olla noudattamatta poliisin poistumiskäskyä.

https://www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2000011570763.html
October 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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This is one of the most fascinating cultural evolution papers!
I am delighted to share our latest piece of research:

‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’.

This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date.

A thread:

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
October 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM