🧪Interesting!
Fuentes & Pawlik (2025) ask were humans building boats in SE Asia 44,000 years ago.

They suggest that intentional boat-building (as opposed to bamboo rafts/dugout canoes) for seafaring and fishing then was quite plausible.

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Summary: tinyurl.com/2s3maahh

It's one of the last weeks of Venus as "the evening star" (first "star" after sunset) before it shifts to being "the morning star" (last "star" before sunrise) for the next few months.

So, I was happy to grab this shot of Venus beside a crescent moon, while out for a jog this weekend. 🧪🔭

I gather he was following along with the scammers to see how far they were prepared to go. When the scammers submitted the first paper, this confirmed it was a serious "enterprise". He never took any money or approved any papers, but played along until then. Apparently, he's reporting real-time.

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xkcd.com/2501/

Brenda Ueland (1891-1985) writing in 1941 about the importance of learning to listen to others.

🧪In this video, I summarise our new article where we analysed 45 years of satellite measurements of the Sun's energy reaching the Earth ("TSI").

Has it risen, fallen or stayed the same? And what are the implications?

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evbi...

Link to paper: doi.org/10.3847/1538...

A Buddhist parable tells of a group of blind men describing an elephant by touch. Each seems to be describing a different animal, but they aren't.

In this paper, we describe 5 completely different definitions of "the tropopause" (region of the atmosphere) & find the same:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...

I'm not sure. But, in my case, it's somebody who appreciates this observation by J.S. Mill. 🤔

I like these random pictures I took of a near full moon in a clear blue sky while out for a run a few evenings ago.

This week, the Sun is smiling on us🌞

The sunspots in the southern hemisphere are arranged in a smile-like crescent. Her "smile" should be facing us directly tomorrow (29th October, 2024).
sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

These polling results of 1029 Americans from mid-September by Rasmussen Reports make for grim, but fascinating reading.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYqZ...

28% of Americans (21% of Dems, 33% of Rep) personally know someone whose death they think may have been caused by the COVID-19 vaccines.

On July 4th, I had the chance to briefly (1 hour) visit the Petroglyph National Monument in ABQ, NM. Unfortunately, it was just a quick stop-off on a road-trip (heading to the above DDP conference in TX). I would have loved to have had longer to explore, but it was a spectacular place.