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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

SAO PAULO — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print “There was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly — what’s called ‘Pleistocene overkill,’” said Daniel Odess, an archaeologist at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

HDFC Bank offers lifetime free credit cards: Millennia, Diners Club to Biz Grow, and more…

Live Mint

HDFC Bank is offering its Millennia, Diners Club Privilege, Biz Grow, PIXEL Play and PIXEL Go credit cards as ‘lifetime free’ for a limited period—from December 17, 2024 to January 16, 2025. The Millennia card, which is given to salaried persons with a monthly income of ₹35000 and ITR of ₹6 lakh per year for self-employed persons, has an annual/joining …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Mastodons and 4-ton sloths lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

LA Times

Artist’s depiction of a person carving an osteoderm from a giant sloth in Brazil about 25,000 to 27,000 years ago. “There was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly — what’s called ‘Pleistocene overkill,’” said Daniel Odess, an archaeologist at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. But new discoveries suggest that “humans were existing alongside …

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55 years ago

Turkey’s ‘mad honey’ has been folk medicine for millennia, but there’s a sting in its tail

CNN

Editor’s Note: This CNN series is, or was, Kaçkar Mountains, Turkey CNN — In the little wooden hut perched high on metal-wrapped stilts, the drone is high, loud and insistent. We’re here to harvest deli bal — bal means “honey” and deli means “crazy” or “mad” — and Turkey’s Black Sea region is one of only two places in the …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Half marathon athletes race through Chengmai's millennia of history

China Daily

Participants join the 2024 Chengmai Half Marathon held on Sunday morning in Hainan's Laocheng Science and Technology New City. In Hainan province's Laocheng Science and Technology New City, the 2024 Chengmai Half Marathon attracted about 10,000 runners on a voyage through Chengmai county, steeped in a thousand years of history. With the crack of the starting gun, runners surged through …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Half marathon athletes race through Chengmai's millennia of history

China Daily

Participants join the 2024 Chengmai Half Marathon held on Sunday morning in Hainan's Laocheng Science and Technology New City. In Hainan province's Laocheng Science and Technology New City, the 2024 Chengmai Half Marathon attracted about 10,000 runners on a voyage through Chengmai county, steeped in a thousand years of history. With the crack of the starting gun, runners surged through …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

World’s oldest termite mounds found in South Africa, storing carbon for millennia

The Hindu

The landscape along the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand region is dotted with thousands of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the surface area. So the termite mounds also offer a mechanism to sequester carbon dioxide through dissolution and leaching of soil carbonate-bicarbonate to groundwater. The results of our radiocarbon dating of both the organic and inorganic carbon …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Kannada Rajyotsava | Karnataka — A name lost and found over millennia

The Hindu

The State being named Karnataka, signifying the Kannada speaking region, was a dream from the times of the unification struggle that bore fruit only in 1973. Devara Konda Reddy, president, Karnataka Itihasa Academy, said Kavirajamarga describes the boundaries of ‘Kannada Nadu’ as “kaveriyindamaa godavariyavaramirda naadadaa kannadodal bhaavisida janapadam.” Immadi Pulikeshi had expanded the empire till river Narmada, further up north …

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1 year, 5 months ago

As earth warms, microbes frozen for millennia are coming back to life

The Hindu

Science fiction is rife with fanciful tales of deadly organisms emerging from the ice and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting human victims. Could pathogens that were once common on earth – but frozen for millennia in glaciers, ice caps and permafrost – emerge from the melting ice to lay waste to modern ecosystems? However, despite the unfathomably large number of microorganisms …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Art in the sky: Kites first took off in China over two millennia ago

China Daily

Kites are flown during a competition to celebrate the launch of the ninth edition of the national public ice and snow season in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Dec 24. ZHANG SHU/FOR CHINA DAILY Orcas, horses, dragons, the Monkey King from Chinese legend, skeletons, and even SpongeBob SquarePants - you probably wouldn't expect to see this collection of animals, mythological creatures, …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Art in the sky: Kites first took off in China over two millennia ago

China Daily

Kites are flown during a competition to celebrate the launch of the ninth edition of the national public ice and snow season in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Dec 24. ZHANG SHU/FOR CHINA DAILY Orcas, horses, dragons, the Monkey King from Chinese legend, skeletons, and even SpongeBob SquarePants - you probably wouldn't expect to see this collection of animals, mythological creatures, …

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2 years, 1 month ago

HT Picks; New Reads

Hindustan Times

From Vatsyayana to Hira Dom A collection of writing by authors across millennia, who were born or lived in what is modern-day Bihar, a volume on miniature painting from Bundelkhand, and a book that includes the work of persecuted poets, writers and activists. The Book of Bihari Literature is a vibrant collection of writings -- poems, essays, stories -- that …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Spectacular bronze statue find in Italy to 'rewrite history'

Hindustan Times

An archaeological dig in the Italian thermal town of San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany has unveiled 24 well-preserved bronze statues from ancient times that are said to be up to 2,300 years old. The pair of two-meter tall Greek warrior bronzes were cast around 450 BC and remain very rare life-size bronze statues from Greek antiquity. "The Tuscan site …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Intuitions about justice are a consistent part of human nature across cultures and millennia

Salon

"Thou shalt not kill" may be the most recognizable moral prohibition in societies around the world. Here's how we investigated just how universal these intuitions are: Testing the human brain's sense of justice Human conflict ranges from the mild, as when neighbors disagree about the appropriate loudness of music, to the serious, including cases of fraud, robbery, rape, homicide — …

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3 years ago

Quzhou millennia-old tombs enjoy nationwide fame

China Daily

chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2021-12-22 Jade relics unearthed in the Mengjiang No 3 mound are well conserved, offering high historic, artistic and scientific research value. The China Broadcast Network released the top 10 domestic and international archaeological news stories for 2021 on Dec 20 and the prefecture-level city of Quzhou, located in East China's Zhejiang province, figured prominently among them. The story …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Vast ocean rubbish patches bringing coastal species into marine ecosystems ‘undisturbed for millennia’, scientists warn

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In just a few decades, the spiralling levels of waste have created vast, spiralling, “gyres” of plastic waste measuring …

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3 years, 2 months ago

The eccentric dog breeds that vanished

BBC

The eccentric dog breeds that vanished Alamy From a vegetarian dog to a walking piece of kitchen equipment, the world was once home to an abundance of strange and ancient hounds. The last feature is not surprising, because Whisky is, in fact, a taxidermy "turnspit" dog – the final relic of an ancient breed that died out in the Victorian …

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4 years ago

Zibo's rise millennia in the making

China Daily

An artifact from ancient China describes a kid playing cuju, kept at the Linzi Football Museum, Shandong province. Now Zibo Cuju FC's promotion to China League One has put the city on the modern game's map, with fans and the team eager to write a whole new chapter of history on the pitch. Now, however, Zibo's soccer fans can dare …

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5 years, 5 months ago

Milestones of millennia: Role of jade in China history explored

China Daily

Liu Bin, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, speaks to the media about a major highlight of the ongoing exhibition at the Palace Museum, a 5,300-year jade article from Liangzhu Culture, called the "king of cong". A new exhibition at the Palace Museum provides a panoramic view of the role played by jade in 5,000 …

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5 years, 5 months ago

Milestones of millennia: Role of jade in China history explored

China Daily

A Liangzhu Culture cong unearthed from the Sidun site in Changzhou, Jiangsu province. Original examples of Liangzhu jade like cong continued to be made in later historical periods. People from the Song Dynasty also made porcelain replicas of cong as art pieces, according to Xu Lin, a researcher at the Palace Museum. As traces of cong gradually became obscured by …

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5 years, 5 months ago

Milestones of millennia: Role of jade in China history explored

China Daily

Liu Bin, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, speaks to the media about a major highlight of the ongoing exhibition at the Palace Museum, a 5,300-year jade article from Liangzhu Culture, called the "king of cong". A new exhibition at the Palace Museum provides a panoramic view of the role played by jade in 5,000 …

China Museum Palace Chinese Jade Qianlong

5 years, 5 months ago

Milestones of millennia: Role of jade in China history explored

China Daily

Liu Bin, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, speaks to the media about a major highlight of the ongoing exhibition at the Palace Museum, a 5,300-year jade article from Liangzhu Culture, called the "king of cong". A new exhibition at the Palace Museum provides a panoramic view of the role played by jade in 5,000 …

China Museum Palace Chinese Jade Qianlong

5 years, 8 months ago

Ending the longest war: Can the Jewish-Christian history of mutual contempt be turned to friendship?

ABC

Religion has been the staunchest extra-familial means of normatising community life by imparting a sense of personal identity and belonging. Casual acceptance of Jews as contaminating the "new"/"true" people of God, the Christian church, propels Christian contempt for Judaism and eventually Jews throughout its literature. In Christianity's case, the challenge demonization of Jews and Judaism dishonours the goodness of creation …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Mythology for the Millennial: The image of 'angry Hanuman' does a disservice to his vast and varied mythology

Firstpost

You can’t divorce Hanuman’s simian nature from his godliness. “Oh dear, you’ve got one of those angry Hanuman sticker cabs,” my friend said to me as I was leaving her house. To quote from one of the articles: “ [.>the celibate Bhakt, becomes an apt symbol for the new and aggressive variety of macho in India that is already denying …

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Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

HDFC Bank offers lifetime free credit cards: Millennia, Diners Club to Biz Grow, and more…

Mastodons and 4-ton sloths lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

Turkey’s ‘mad honey’ has been folk medicine for millennia, but there’s a sting in its tail

Half marathon athletes race through Chengmai's millennia of history

Half marathon athletes race through Chengmai's millennia of history

World’s oldest termite mounds found in South Africa, storing carbon for millennia

Kannada Rajyotsava | Karnataka — A name lost and found over millennia

As earth warms, microbes frozen for millennia are coming back to life

Art in the sky: Kites first took off in China over two millennia ago

Art in the sky: Kites first took off in China over two millennia ago

HT Picks; New Reads

Spectacular bronze statue find in Italy to 'rewrite history'

Intuitions about justice are a consistent part of human nature across cultures and millennia

Quzhou millennia-old tombs enjoy nationwide fame

Vast ocean rubbish patches bringing coastal species into marine ecosystems ‘undisturbed for millennia’, scientists warn

The eccentric dog breeds that vanished

Zibo's rise millennia in the making

Milestones of millennia: Role of jade in China history explored

Milestones of millennia: Role of jade in China history explored

Milestones of millennia: Role of jade in China history explored

Milestones of millennia: Role of jade in China history explored

Ending the longest war: Can the Jewish-Christian history of mutual contempt be turned to friendship?

Mythology for the Millennial: The image of 'angry Hanuman' does a disservice to his vast and varied mythology