Interesting Links for 30-11-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast (is certainly a sentence describing events in the world)

(tags:wtf headline psilocybin )

2. UN panel says Israel operating 'de facto policy of torture'

(tags:torture UnitedNations israel palestine )

3. Bronze Age mega-settlement in Kazakhstan reveals advanced urban planning and metallurgy

(tags:cities prehistory kazakhstan )

4. Exploring the link between religion and acceptance of homosexuality across different countries

(tags:religion polls lgbt )

5. Scientists are finally studying women's bodies. This is what we're learning.

(tags:women research patriarchy GoodNews )

Comments

[movingfinger]

1. This has nearly perfect "CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT" mapping to who, what, why, and shrug...

[andrewducker]

It also reminds me of the classic* Poob Has It For You.


*It's amazing how quickly something can become a classic nowadays.

3 Bronze Age

[danieldwilliam]

One of the things I would do if I were mega-rich would be to fund desk based re-assessment of previous archaelogical digs based on the what we now know about the surrounding area. There are lots of examples of sites where new knowledge would change the interpretation of them. Places that seemed isolated at the time they were dug but are now seen to be part of a busier richer set of settlements. Sites that at the time they were dug were perhaps a centre of the production of X but are more visibly part of a trade network in X.

If you are looking at the earlier archeology of bronze making in Kazakstan and seeing lot of small scale operations you might conclude that this culture is not using lots of bronze. They you find a huge foundry and perhaps you re-evaluate those sites as evidence of fringe activity rather than low overall activity.

No. 4

[anna_wing]

Depends on the religion or variant thereof, ethnic culture, locality, socio-economic stratum, sex, positive and customary law...also on what is locally understood by "homosexuality".