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To cheer myself up, here’s a loooooooooooong science/archaeology/history!spam (20 stories in Anth/History and another 19 in science). Is it sad that I still have 140 emails in my inbox with science news?
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The astronomy stuff is cool. i've got really into it again since the last physics assignment :)
And the Australopithecus faces - they are just beautiful. Oh, and Phineas Gage. Never heard of him before. But it's fascinating that he survived with that hole right through his head.
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/page.cfm?section=newslettersignup if you're interested
aren't those faces just lovely? you can really see the humanity in them, too, which I thought was just a great touch on the part of the artist
Phineas Gage is most well known in Psychology/Neurology circles. He lived an additional 11 years but losing that much brain matter seriously changed his personality and behaviors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage was an amazing case and hugely notable in that, before that, people just didn't consider TBI a survivable event *hug*
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yeah, they are lovely. it's the eyes, i think. the last one was pretty cool. Homo floresiensis? And how it said they overlapped in time with homo sapiens - two different species of human on the planet - so weird, but awesome.
*nods* i looked him up on Wikipedia yesterday. fascinating guy :)
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*nods* there was a lot of overlap in the early days of the human race. I could go on for thousands of words. just amazing and they were SOOOO human despite how "not"-us they appear, took care of their sick and injured and everything. just amazing
he's had a lot of books written about him. it's a pretty cool case although there's a lot of conjecture and just plain wrong info floating around. still is very neat
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