James Glover
@jgcubed.bsky.social
I am cursed with the ability to see both sides of an argument. Interests in maths, science, art and nature. Not necessarily in that order.
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James Glover
@jgcubed.bsky.social
· Nov 18
There can never be too many photos of dogs on the internet.
Recent DNA Studies Question a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul [of course there could be more than one early human arrival, but the DNA doesn't survive today....] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Recent DNA Studies Question a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul
Recent reports present evidence of Neanderthal introgression among all non-African human populations after 50 kya. Here we trace the implications of this claim for Sahul history. If correct, ancestra...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Recent DNA Studies Question a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul [of course there could be more than one early human arrival, but the DNA doesn't survive today....] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Recent DNA Studies Question a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul
Recent reports present evidence of Neanderthal introgression among all non-African human populations after 50 kya. Here we trace the implications of this claim for Sahul history. If correct, ancestra...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Recent DNA Studies Question a 65 kya Arrival of Humans in Sahul [of course there could be more than one early human arrival, but the DNA doesn't survive today....] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, but not all experts are convinced www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in Australia, but not all experts are convinced
A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.
www.livescience.com
July 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
July 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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My comments from 2015 on dates for early Australian occupation at Madjedbebe 2 of >60,000 years
May 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My comments from 2015 on dates for early Australian occupation at Madjedbebe 2 of >60,000 years
They should have called #MasterchefAU 2025 "Back to have a crack" not "Back to win". @masterchefaus.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
They should have called #MasterchefAU 2025 "Back to have a crack" not "Back to win". @masterchefaus.bsky.social
Anyone know if this is a fossil and what of? It is in a limestone or sandstone cliff on a beach where the rock has recently been exposed. About 50cm from top to bottom.
March 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Anyone know if this is a fossil and what of? It is in a limestone or sandstone cliff on a beach where the rock has recently been exposed. About 50cm from top to bottom.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat passed away today at the age of 101. She was one of the pioneers of mathematical general relativity.🧪
February 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat passed away today at the age of 101. She was one of the pioneers of mathematical general relativity.🧪
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Apparently it #superbowl Sunday. What could be more superb than the oldest representation of one we know of from Chauvet Cave, France?
This long eared Owl was drawn by fingers scraped through the wet sediment on the cave wall 32,000 years ago.
🏺🦣
This long eared Owl was drawn by fingers scraped through the wet sediment on the cave wall 32,000 years ago.
🏺🦣
February 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Apparently it #superbowl Sunday. What could be more superb than the oldest representation of one we know of from Chauvet Cave, France?
This long eared Owl was drawn by fingers scraped through the wet sediment on the cave wall 32,000 years ago.
🏺🦣
This long eared Owl was drawn by fingers scraped through the wet sediment on the cave wall 32,000 years ago.
🏺🦣
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Ironically, the one thing left standing after the #LAFires burnt down thousands of homes is the brick decorative fireplaces and chimneys, which, up till now, were untouched by fire.
January 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Ironically, the one thing left standing after the #LAFires burnt down thousands of homes is the brick decorative fireplaces and chimneys, which, up till now, were untouched by fire.
Won't somebody think of the celebrities!
January 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Won't somebody think of the celebrities!
A new tourist attraction to preserve them rather than allow them to be destroyed after taking plaster casts, literally "Walking With Dinosaurs".
A bit more on those dinosaur footprints!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/ma...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/ma...
Major new footprint discoveries on Britain’s ‘dinosaur highway’ - University of Birmingham
Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
January 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A new tourist attraction to preserve them rather than allow them to be destroyed after taking plaster casts, literally "Walking With Dinosaurs".
Reposted by James Glover
Reconstruction of the burial of Mungo 3 about 42,000 years ago in southern Australia. Copyright John Sibbick/Science Photo Library. From my book with Louise Humphrey: Our Human Story
January 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Reconstruction of the burial of Mungo 3 about 42,000 years ago in southern Australia. Copyright John Sibbick/Science Photo Library. From my book with Louise Humphrey: Our Human Story
Since Spike's sad passing🙂↕️ Becky has stepped up to become my little #DogLeg.
"No space goes to waste" is our motto. 😂
#Disability #Amputee #LBKA #Dogs
"No space goes to waste" is our motto. 😂
#Disability #Amputee #LBKA #Dogs
January 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Since Spike's sad passing🙂↕️ Becky has stepped up to become my little #DogLeg.
"No space goes to waste" is our motto. 😂
#Disability #Amputee #LBKA #Dogs
"No space goes to waste" is our motto. 😂
#Disability #Amputee #LBKA #Dogs
@liammannix.bsky.social Chris Stringer on genetic evidence that ancestors of Aboriginal people have been here less than 50k years due to shared Neanderthal interbreeding signal shared with Europeans dated at 48k. Prior archeo. sites eg 65k in Arnhem Land were from previous migrations of H.Sapiens.
My summary of 2 recent papers about Neanderthal interbreeding
January 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
@liammannix.bsky.social Chris Stringer on genetic evidence that ancestors of Aboriginal people have been here less than 50k years due to shared Neanderthal interbreeding signal shared with Europeans dated at 48k. Prior archeo. sites eg 65k in Arnhem Land were from previous migrations of H.Sapiens.
Reposted by James Glover
My summary of 2 recent papers about Neanderthal interbreeding
January 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
My summary of 2 recent papers about Neanderthal interbreeding
Within 10 years advances in AI, robotics, quantum computing, neural links and VR means we will have walking taking avatars of ourselves called "Cobots". We will leave all irl interactions to our Cobots as we sun ourselves on a VR deserted Greek island, or Mars, our Cobots will work 24/7. #Cobots 1/2
January 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Within 10 years advances in AI, robotics, quantum computing, neural links and VR means we will have walking taking avatars of ourselves called "Cobots". We will leave all irl interactions to our Cobots as we sun ourselves on a VR deserted Greek island, or Mars, our Cobots will work 24/7. #Cobots 1/2
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Protocells [not sure that's quite the right word] emerge in experiment simulating lifeless world: ‘There is no divine breath of life’. Researchers observe, for the first time, the formation of compartments alongside the basic ingredients of organisms english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Protocells emerge in experiment simulating lifeless world: ‘There is no divine breath of life’
Researchers from a Spanish laboratory observe, for the first time, the formation of compartments alongside the basic ingredients of organisms
english.elpais.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Protocells [not sure that's quite the right word] emerge in experiment simulating lifeless world: ‘There is no divine breath of life’. Researchers observe, for the first time, the formation of compartments alongside the basic ingredients of organisms english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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To recap:
- A driver killed 15 and injured 35 in New Orleans
- A Cybertruck exploded in Vegas in front of a Trump hotel, killing a person
- 10 people were shot at a nightclub in Queens
It’s only January 2nd.
- A driver killed 15 and injured 35 in New Orleans
- A Cybertruck exploded in Vegas in front of a Trump hotel, killing a person
- 10 people were shot at a nightclub in Queens
It’s only January 2nd.
January 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
To recap:
- A driver killed 15 and injured 35 in New Orleans
- A Cybertruck exploded in Vegas in front of a Trump hotel, killing a person
- 10 people were shot at a nightclub in Queens
It’s only January 2nd.
- A driver killed 15 and injured 35 in New Orleans
- A Cybertruck exploded in Vegas in front of a Trump hotel, killing a person
- 10 people were shot at a nightclub in Queens
It’s only January 2nd.
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Joy Division - Transmission
note the presence on stage of the famous plot of the radio waves from the PSR B1919+21 pulsar, captured by the Arecibo radiotelescope, published in Harold D. Craft, Jr.'s Ph.D. thesis [see e.g. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... ] 🧪🔭
youtu.be/6dBt3mJtgJc
note the presence on stage of the famous plot of the radio waves from the PSR B1919+21 pulsar, captured by the Arecibo radiotelescope, published in Harold D. Craft, Jr.'s Ph.D. thesis [see e.g. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... ] 🧪🔭
youtu.be/6dBt3mJtgJc
Joy Division - Transmission [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
YouTube video by Joy Division
youtu.be
January 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Joy Division - Transmission
note the presence on stage of the famous plot of the radio waves from the PSR B1919+21 pulsar, captured by the Arecibo radiotelescope, published in Harold D. Craft, Jr.'s Ph.D. thesis [see e.g. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... ] 🧪🔭
youtu.be/6dBt3mJtgJc
note the presence on stage of the famous plot of the radio waves from the PSR B1919+21 pulsar, captured by the Arecibo radiotelescope, published in Harold D. Craft, Jr.'s Ph.D. thesis [see e.g. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... ] 🧪🔭
youtu.be/6dBt3mJtgJc
Reposted by James Glover
What the Earth-Moon system looks like from space? Point one hand at the Moon. In the other, pointing at 60 degrees, hold out a tennis ball representing the Earth. This is what the Earth-Moon looks like from the apex of an equilateral triangle consisting of the Earth, Moon and Observer.
#astronomy
#astronomy
December 29, 2024 at 9:07 AM
What the Earth-Moon system looks like from space? Point one hand at the Moon. In the other, pointing at 60 degrees, hold out a tennis ball representing the Earth. This is what the Earth-Moon looks like from the apex of an equilateral triangle consisting of the Earth, Moon and Observer.
#astronomy
#astronomy