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This research suggests that Neanderthals’ signature dish was rotting meat infested with fly larvae, which are responsible for the extremely high nitrogen levels discovered at various sites throughout history. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2025, 05:22 PM by Nibbles | |
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The study authors analyzed fossilized hominin teeth for carbon and oxygen isotopes left behind from eating plants known as graminoids, which includes grasses and sedges. They found that ancient humans gravitated toward consuming these plants far earlier than their teeth evolved to chew them efficiently. It was not until 700,000 years later that evolution finally caught up in the form of longer molars like those that let modern humans easily chew tough plant fibers. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2025, 03:34 AM by Nibbles | |
"... We are birds constantly regurgitating and eating our own upchuck. Same flavour but different colour, different flavour but same chunks." | |
Submitted at 08-03-2025, 12:39 AM by B. Weed | |
The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 08:41 PM by Mordant | |
Police engaged in a nightlong standoff Friday in Cambridge after a man wielded a machete in Central Square and made it to his home in The Port neighborhood, according to police and police scanner reports.
In an effort to get the barricaded man out of his home, police used gas that sent several sickened residents fleeing instead.
Though at first the man could be seen pacing through the window at 243 Broadway, after a while he pulled the shades and police lost their view,
Gas was shot into the building shortly after midnight and rose through the building – which had not been fully evacuated. The 1879 five-story brick building, known as the George Close, was once a warehouse. Its 53,724 square feet holds 61 apartments.
One man came out livid from being affected by the gas – a mix of pepper spray and tear gas, according to a Pro EMS responder. One of the people watching over the hours took video of a woman on the fourth floor coughing and calling for help. Elderly residents in medical masks were assisted out of the building at 1:25 am., followed by a man in a wheelchair and others. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 08:30 PM by sleeppoor | |
Two Spotsylvania residents are facing one misdemeanor charge each after the July 20 incident in the Partlow area. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 01:30 PM by read a tv | |
A jury found Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act when it intentionally recorded the sensitive health information of millions of women through the period tracking app Flo.
"This is a landmark moment in the effort to safeguard digital privacy rights," said Michael P. Canty of the New York-based firm Labaton Keller Sucharow, who represented the plaintiffs. "Our clients entrusted their most sensitive information to a health app, only to have it exploited by one of the world’s most powerful tech companies.”
Jurors were given three questions — and on each one, they ruled against Meta. They said that yes, Meta had intentionally eavesdropped and that yes, users could have reasonably expected that their sensitive menstrual information was not being shared. Finally, the jurors ruled that no, Meta did not have consent for its actions. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 02:36 AM by sleeppoor | |
A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 02:57 AM by sleeppoor | |
Bay Area chefs say they see people sneaking bites of homemade salads, spring rolls and even entire pizzas while dining at their restaurants. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 01:56 AM by sleeppoor | |
Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes." | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 01:53 AM by sleeppoor | |
US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is offering recruitment bonuses of up to $50,000 (£37,700) and student loan help to "brave and heroic" Americans interested in helping with the Trump administration's deportation drive. | |
Submitted at 08-01-2025, 10:41 PM by Nibbles | |
The importance of telling a consistent and accurate story on matters of fire. | |
Submitted at 08-01-2025, 07:43 PM by sleeppoor | |
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 100,000 in July, according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate.
June and May totals were revised sharply lower, down by a combined 258,000 from previously announced levels. | |
Submitted at 08-01-2025, 03:51 PM by sleeppoor | |
Trying to ‘let it rip’ in early 2020 was a disaster. | |
Submitted at 08-01-2025, 03:49 PM by sleeppoor | |
What they're saying:
"It was always what my mom drank growing up, and I would drink it with her and enjoy it," said Ingle. | |
Submitted at 08-01-2025, 02:14 PM by Nibbles | |
The FTC’s recent anti-trans “workshop” proves the agency can’t be trusted to “protect kids” with online censorship powers. | |
Submitted at 08-01-2025, 03:25 AM by sleeppoor | |
Arkansas police have charged a 28-year-old schoolteacher in the killing of a married couple who were hiking with their children at Devil’s Den State Park, arresting him in a nearby city after a five-day search and public pleas for tips from other hikers.
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McGann was placed on administrative leave in spring 2023 while he was employed at Donald Elementary School in Flower Mound, Texas, “following concerns related to classroom management, professional judgment, and student favoritism,” according to a spokesperson for the Lewisville Independent School District.
Sierra Marcum, whose son was in McGann’s fourth grade class, said the teacher came across as standoffish, “pretty cold,” and “disinterested in his students.” Marcum said her son had come home from school upset and complaining about McGann, which she reported to the school’s principal. | |
Submitted at 07-31-2025, 07:46 PM by NickNoheart | |
After a Martha’s Vineyard pierogi vendor refused to sell to him, Epstein’s lawyer plans to sue a farmers’ market so that they must sell to him. | |
Submitted at 07-31-2025, 05:37 PM by Mordant | |
Submitted at 07-31-2025, 06:26 AM by sleeppoor | |
Elon Musk's new Tesla Diner & Drive-In in Los Angeles is facing all sorts of controversy, including a woman being hit by falling patio furniture. | |
Submitted at 07-30-2025, 09:50 PM by Mordant | |

This research suggests that Neanderthals’ signature dish was rotting meat infested with fly larvae, which are responsible for the extremely high nitrogen levels discovered at various sites throughout history.
The study authors analyzed fossilized hominin teeth for carbon and oxygen isotopes left behind from eating plants known as graminoids, which includes grasses and sedges. They found that ancient humans gravitated toward consuming these plants far earlier than their teeth evolved to chew them efficiently. It was not until 700,000 years later that evolution finally caught up in the form of longer molars like those that let modern humans easily chew tough plant fibers.
"... We are birds constantly regurgitating and eating our own upchuck. Same flavour but different colour, different flavour but same chunks."
The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything.
Police engaged in a nightlong standoff Friday in Cambridge after a man wielded a machete in Central Square and made it to his home in The Port neighborhood, according to police and police scanner reports.
In an effort to get the barricaded man out of his home, police used gas that sent several sickened residents fleeing instead.
Though at first the man could be seen pacing through the window at 243 Broadway, after a while he pulled the shades and police lost their view,
Gas was shot into the building shortly after midnight and rose through the building – which had not been fully evacuated. The 1879 five-story brick building, known as the George Close, was once a warehouse. Its 53,724 square feet holds 61 apartments.
One man came out livid from being affected by the gas – a mix of pepper spray and tear gas, according to a Pro EMS responder. One of the people watching over the hours took video of a woman on the fourth floor coughing and calling for help. Elderly residents in medical masks were assisted out of the building at 1:25 am., followed by a man in a wheelchair and others.
Two Spotsylvania residents are facing one misdemeanor charge each after the July 20 incident in the Partlow area.
A jury found Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act when it intentionally recorded the sensitive health information of millions of women through the period tracking app Flo.
"This is a landmark moment in the effort to safeguard digital privacy rights," said Michael P. Canty of the New York-based firm Labaton Keller Sucharow, who represented the plaintiffs. "Our clients entrusted their most sensitive information to a health app, only to have it exploited by one of the world’s most powerful tech companies.”
Jurors were given three questions — and on each one, they ruled against Meta. They said that yes, Meta had intentionally eavesdropped and that yes, users could have reasonably expected that their sensitive menstrual information was not being shared. Finally, the jurors ruled that no, Meta did not have consent for its actions.
A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms.
Bay Area chefs say they see people sneaking bites of homemade salads, spring rolls and even entire pizzas while dining at their restaurants.
Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes."
US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is offering recruitment bonuses of up to $50,000 (£37,700) and student loan help to "brave and heroic" Americans interested in helping with the Trump administration's deportation drive.
The importance of telling a consistent and accurate story on matters of fire.
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 100,000 in July, according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate.
June and May totals were revised sharply lower, down by a combined 258,000 from previously announced levels.
Trying to ‘let it rip’ in early 2020 was a disaster.
What they're saying:
"It was always what my mom drank growing up, and I would drink it with her and enjoy it," said Ingle.
The FTC’s recent anti-trans “workshop” proves the agency can’t be trusted to “protect kids” with online censorship powers.
Arkansas police have charged a 28-year-old schoolteacher in the killing of a married couple who were hiking with their children at Devil’s Den State Park, arresting him in a nearby city after a five-day search and public pleas for tips from other hikers.
...
McGann was placed on administrative leave in spring 2023 while he was employed at Donald Elementary School in Flower Mound, Texas, “following concerns related to classroom management, professional judgment, and student favoritism,” according to a spokesperson for the Lewisville Independent School District.
Sierra Marcum, whose son was in McGann’s fourth grade class, said the teacher came across as standoffish, “pretty cold,” and “disinterested in his students.” Marcum said her son had come home from school upset and complaining about McGann, which she reported to the school’s principal.
After a Martha’s Vineyard pierogi vendor refused to sell to him, Epstein’s lawyer plans to sue a farmers’ market so that they must sell to him.
Elon Musk's new Tesla Diner & Drive-In in Los Angeles is facing all sorts of controversy, including a woman being hit by falling patio furniture.