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Footprints in the Sands of Time
The fossil footprints around an ancient lake in White Sands have been known for some time, but now we have what look to be perfectly respectable C-14 dates. They’re about 22 thousand years old, close...
View ArticleThreading the Needle
The problem with the idea of an early, pre-Amerindian settlement of the Americas is that ( by hypothesis, and some evidence ) it succeeded, but ( from known evidence) it just barely succeeded, at...
View ArticleBooks 2021
You might also be interested in my booklists from from 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 . A Savage War of Peace The Canterbury Tales Adaptation and Natural Selection Anabasis Janissaries...
View ArticleThe First Team
I’ve been reading Thin on the Ground, a book by Stephen Churchill. One of his ideas is based on the fact some predator species are dominant over others and get the lion’s share (cough, cough) of the...
View ArticleWhat if
I don’t think the story is perfectly clear right now. But suppose it becomes clear. Suppose that we find that Covid-19 was ( for sure) the accidental product of virologists working in a Wuhan lab,...
View ArticleTriple Bank Shots
By which I mean multi-step causal chains that are part of a complex plan – something intended by some individual or group. In the strong form, one for which the initial push is sufficient, so that the...
View ArticleFlerov’s Gambit
Georgy Flerov was a young nuclear physicist in the Soviet Union who ( in 1943) sent a letter to Stalin advocating an atomic bomb project. It is not clear that Stalin read that letter, but one of...
View ArticleBooks 2022
You might also be interested in my booklists from from 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Defeat into Victory Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges Go Tell The Spartans Don...
View ArticleBooks 2023
You might also be interested in my booklists from from 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. The Balance of Tomorrow Stirling’s Desert Raiders Among the Elephants Adventures of a...
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