Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts
well DUH. a lot of historians are still trying to process the fact that ancient egyptians knew how to build boats, which is ridiculous. why would they not be seafarers and explorers?
this is not new or surprising information at all. it pretty much day one of any african-american studies course.
the egyptians knew that if they put their boats in front of the summer storm winds it’d blow them right across the sea to the Americas and they shared that with the greeks.
It’s really hard for people to understand that everyone had boats, exploration, and trade interactions without the same level of murder, colonization, and violence that the Europeans did. It’s really hard for people to get that.
The only plausible explanation for these findings is that a considerable number of transoceanic voyages in both directions across both major oceans were completed between the 7th millennium BC and the European age of discovery. Our growing knowledge of early maritime technology and its accomplishments gives us confidence that vessels and nautical skills capable of these long-distance travels were developed by the times indicated. These voyages put a new complexion on the extensive Old World/New World cultural parallels that have long been controversial.
White people: Egyptians had boats?????
People of Color: It’s not like they lived IMMEDIATELY BESIDE A RIVER OR ANYTHING, fuck.
i hope every movie men love is remade with an all female cast and it ‘ruins their childhood’ and then they don’t exist anymore and i don’t have to listen to them complain.
El multimillonario Bill Gates aboga por la creación de "una especie de Gobierno mundial", argumentando que la creación de un sistema de este tipo resulta imprescindible para combatir los problemas más importantes, "como el cambio climático". En declaraciones al diario alemán 'Süddeutsche Zeitung', Gates ha criticado el hecho de que el sistema de las Naciones Unidas no se ha materializado como estaba previsto.
etiquetas: bill gates, gobierno global, cambio climatico, naciones unidas
I’ve had this one sitting in my to-do pile for a while, and was finally galvanized to draw it up after going to a talk around intersections of sex, gender, and race this weekend. The topic of pronouns and terminology came up and the speaker just sort of smirked and said ‘yeah, we all know who wrote the dictionaries, don’t we?’ and I was like YES I HAVE A WHOLE THING ABOUT THAT.
My proudest moment of this comic is that I managed to sneak a penis joke into it.
Relevant!
Also, dictionaries take so long to collate they become obsolete before their completion, almost by definition (har har)
A newly discovered planet makes Saturn’s famed ring collection look downright tiny by comparison.
Astronomers from the Leiden Observatory in Netherlands and Rochester University in the United States discovered a planet encircled by a ring system more than 200 times the diameter of Saturn’s. With more than 30 rings, it’s the first system of its kind to be discovered outside our solar system, and it may be churning out more moons and protoplanets.
Rings Around the Gas Giant
SuperWASP is t