Month: September 2019

Einaudi’s piano music

Einaudi’s piano music remains one of the best things to help boost my concentration, especially whilst studying. It must save a positive effect on my neural pathways, as it seems to mitigates the horrible side effects of living a highly tech-exposed life with terrible levels of context switch and a myriad of notifications fired at me.

Palaeontology manipulated

Donald Johanson—the discoverer of Lucy’s kind, Australopithecus afarensis—has argued for decades that A. afarensis is our ancestor. However, most people are unaware that prominent members of the paleo-community reject afarensis as a valid species. These scientists have argued persuasively in favour of afarensis as a jumble of human (Homo) and ape-like (Australopithecus) bones. Ironically, this is precisely what Johanson had originally reported in his 1976 Nature paper, prior to his controversial ‘reassessment’ when he completely changed his story and presented Lucy’s kind as the ancestor to all ‘later’ hominins.

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