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 | UBC v3 - Round #28 |
| | Posted by Interloper on Friday, 3rd July @ 2:54 am GMT (2 reads)
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| 'First Europeans' were Cannibals, Ate Children |
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Spain's Atapuerca Mountains are listed a UNESCO World Heritage site as they feature a number of caves containing the oldest known remains of Hominians in Western Europe.
Homo sapiens are the only surviving member of the Hominina family, which also included a number of divergent species of "humanoids" that are now extinct (except, possibly, Bigfoot).
The Atapeurca caves were first discovered in the late 19th century, when workers were attempting to bore railway tunnels through the rock. Due to a lack of scientific expertise at the time, research on the remains discovered in the caves did not begin until 1968.
Since then, over 100 skeletons have been discovered in the area, providing paleontologists a remarkable resource from which to glean knowledge of mankind's prehistoric ancestors.
Now, scientists working on remains obtained from the Atapuerca Mountains may have discovered a rather unsavoury truth about the early Europeans that lived there.
Along with horse, deer and rhinoceros remains found scattered and broken throughout the cave, were also humanoid remains; evidence that our primitive relatives regularly participated in cannibalism.
Closer analysis of the remains indicated that children and adolescents were particularly popular among the cannibal cave-dwellers, who did not eat the flesh of other humans for the purpose of ritual, but simply because they were hungry. |
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| Posted by Interloper on Thursday, 2nd July @ 2:45 am GMT (24 reads)
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| Snikt Me! |
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  Marvel Entertainment actually own the trademark for the word snikt!; the sound made by Wolverine's adamantium claws as they are extended.
In 1993, when Magneto stripped Wolverine's skeleton of adamantium and left him with only bone claws, they accordingly changed the word to schlikt. Thankfully, when Apocalypse restored Wolvie's adamantium, he also demagnetised it, meaning that comics readers probably won't be hearing schlikt again anytime soon.
Marvel also owns the trademark to thwip!, which is used whenever Spider-Man "shots web", as they say.
Though reportedly not trademarked, another common onomatopoeia that appears in Marvel comics is bamf, the sound made by Nightcrawler's teleportation. |
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| Posted by Interloper on Wednesday, 1st July @ 4:41 am GMT (15 reads)
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| (Un)Safe Search |
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  Tired of Google's "safe search" feature hiding what you really want to see when you type in those search terms?
Of course, you could always disable the feature in your preferences, but even then you're still not guaranteed to find the unsafe material you're after...
That is, of course, unless you use Unsafe Search. |
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| Posted by Interloper on Wednesday, 1st July @ 2:58 am GMT (2 reads)
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| The Month of July |
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 Today is the first day of July, named after Julius Caesar who was born on the 13th.
July was originally the fifth month of the year and it's first name, Quintilis, reflected this.
July always starts on the same day of the week as April.
In the northern hemisphere, July is generally the warmest month, while in the southern hemisphere it is most often the coldest.
The birthstone for the month of July is the red ruby.
Belarus, the Bahamas, Perù, Argentina and the Maldives all celebrate their independence in July.
But that's enough of that. What does July mean to you? |
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| Posted by Interloper on Wednesday, 1st July @ 2:21 am GMT (21 reads)
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| They Are Twins, That Is Why |
| | Posted by Interloper on Monday, 29th June @ 6:19 am GMT (35 reads)
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| Hecatomb |
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 In Ancient Greece, Hecatomb was the term for the ritual sacrifice of 100 oxen. Hecatombs were large-scale public affairs and were offered at various times throughout the year to the gods Apollo, Athena and Hera. |
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| Posted by Interloper on Wednesday, 24th June @ 12:49 am GMT (4 reads)
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| New Mammoth Extinction Research |
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  New research published in Britain's Geological Journal has revealed that woolly mammoths likely survived in Britain for around 6,000 years longer than previous estimates.
Originally, mammoths were believed to have died out in north-western Europe around 21,000 years ago, during an impressively-named event known as "the last glacial maximum".
New radiocarbon dating of mammoth remains unearthed in Shropshire in 1984, however, has revealed that the mammoths may have survived the great freeze and continued to roam Britain until the final stages of the Ice Age, around 14,000 years ago. |
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| Posted by Interloper on Tuesday, 23rd June @ 6:46 am GMT (4 reads)
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| Military Machines to be Programmed with Ethics |
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  Less than a month after a US air strike killed 100 civilians in southern Afghanistan, reports have emerged that engineers are working to incorporate ethical systems into the software of advanced weapons.
As reported by New Scientist, robotic engineers are researching the possibility of technology that will enable military devices to make decisions that are ethically informed in an attempt to reduce collateral damage.
Not only will the devices be capable of making ethical judgements, but they may also be programmed with a sense of guilt, in order to further reduce the risk of civilian casualties. |
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| Posted by Interloper on Tuesday, 23rd June @ 12:40 am GMT (21 reads)
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| Saffia Schadenfreude |
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 Did you know that the area of the brain that creates the sensation of schadenfreude (as well as the emotion of jealousy), is the same part that registers actual physical pain?
Anyway, watch Big Brother 10 ex-Housemate, Saffia, fall into the swimming pool. This is still funny, even if she did voluntarily leave the house almost a week ago.
For those of you that were expecting more eye candy, I promise I'll make it up to you with the next update.
More GIFs:
Sophie Pretends to be a Dog
Marcus Attempts a World Record |
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| Posted by Interloper on Wednesday, 17th June @ 12:27 pm GMT (43 reads)
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