Article: Humans Ate Meat 3.4 mio Years Ago
For all our vegan friends: no offense intended! New evidence from Ethiopia shows that we humans butchered meat as early as 3.4 million years ago – longer than we humans
Article: Humans lived in North America 10,000 years earlier than thought
Archaeological findings date the first human settlements in North America back to about 24,000 years ago. Cut marks were found on the jaw bone of a Yukon horse in a
Article: Plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus
This article shows you what great and underestimated beings plants really are. It turns out plants communicate with each other using an internet-like network of mycelia – the thin threads
Article: Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?
Interesting insight into the racism that is still woven into our everyday language. It really makes utterly no sense to call white people who live abroad ‘expats‘ and the rest
Article: An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest
The long read I read this story three times already because I find it so fascinating. It gives you insights in the brutal history of Brazil, as well as details
Article: Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence
The long read An excellent piece of scientific literature that describes how hunter-gatherers use elements of play to make their egalitarian lifestyle as easy and fun as possible. Play as
Article: Foraging Was Healthier Than Agriculture
That foragers were and are in way better health than ‘civilized’ people is no surprise anymore by now. If even Forbes Magazine admits it, it finally has to be common
Article: The Dangers Of Automatization
This terrifying article is for all the naive, technology-crazed futurists who get excited by self-driving cars and automation in general. There is a phenomenon called the paradox of automation, which
Article: We Run Out Of Sand
Civilization will not continue for much longer. The sooner we realize this and act accordingly, the better. Sand is one underestimated resource that we exploit so rapidly and that we
Article: The Price For Technology Is Paid In Congo
So technology is not ‘bad’ or ‘good’ but neutral, huh? What about the vast environmental devastation, the release of toxins of all kinds, and the inhumane working conditions under which