Mostly-Mica

Chris Mitchel is a global warming conspiracy theorist. he should be fired from his position as editor in chief of the Australian, a Murdoch News Ltd rag.

From the page: "As Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz notes, the Okies making up the majority of California dustbowl migrants can ultimately trace their origins back to the Ulster Scots who served as the shock troops for the 17th-century colonization of Ireland. They were promised two things by the king: a plot of land, and guaranteed superiority to the permanent underclass of natives they would be displacing. Their eventual expansion into the Appalachians, the Ozarks, and the Great Plains was very much a continuation of this promise, which could only occasionally be kept."

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"My take on the Tea Party movement is this: Tea Partiers are Americans who have been made to believe that they are 'white'; have been made to believe, furthermore, that this status carries with it some natural privilege; and who therefore wonder why, in spite of the fact that they are white, they have nonetheless been given the shaft."

no doubt people are reworking these archaeological reconstructions for sale in Second Life as avatars already

From the page: The data suggest that between 1 and 4% of the genomes of people in Eurasia are derived from Neandertals.

excellent coverage of recent DNA work in Neandertal remains

jellyfish, city of gonads

ecellent idea for the commonwealth

From the page: "In Australia, Martu hunter-gatherers light fires to expose the hiding places of their prey: monitor lizards called goanna that can grow up to six feet long. These generations-old hunting practices, part of the Martu day-to-day routine, have reshaped Australia's Western Desert habitats, according to Stanford University anthropologists Douglas and Rebecca Bird."