The Official Treehouse Articles Thread

[cory]

Yeah, it is a truly amazing story.

 

[pantheraba]

Good read...a time machine sure would be nice.

 

[gf beranek]

5,000 years ago in human generations, say 25 years per, would equate to 200. Considering the big picture it really wasn't that long ago. Amazing what has passed in human advancement and technology in that short amount of time. From stone-age to digital-age. Whoa, baby. Beam me up, Butch.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hold on... gotta plug it in...

 

[cory]

5,000 years ago in human generations, say 25 years per, would equate to 200. Considering the big picture it really wasn't that long ago. Amazing what has passed in human advancement and technology in that short amount of time. From stone-age to digital-age.

It is supremely mind boggling.

 

[stig]

He is spelled with an Umlaut, so I hate him.

 

[cory]

Now, now. Let bygones be bygones

 

[cory]

Cool article on mules. If you can name what 2 creatures a mule is progeny of, you a better man than me.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/instagram-mules-follow-the-leader

 

[cory]

I love spiders and here is a cool article on the worlds oldest known spider, 43 yo. Insect life tends to be utterly fascinating, least the ones I've read about.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/elegy-for-the-worlds-oldest-spider

 

[MasterBlaster]

Cool!

 

[squisher]

Cool article on mules. If you can name what 2 creatures a mule is progeny of, you a better man than me.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/instagram-mules-follow-the-leader

A mules no donkey that's for sure!

 

[Stumpshot]

Every year Columbia, TN (30 min from where I used to live) has a 3 day festival called Mule Day. People come from all over bringing their mules and wagons, so you got to see every variety of them. Pretty amazing diversity, for sure.

 

[pantheraba]

Interbreeding

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...parents-belonging-to-different-human-species/

 

[cory]

Fascinating!

Geez, died at 13 y o...life was ruuuuuuuff!

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'm glad I waited to be born!!!

 

[ruel]

Crazy to think early humans bumped into other hominids. Evolution is crazy stuff. Look up YouTube videos of chimps smoking cigarettes if you need help visualizing how related we are

 

[flushcut]

Interbreeding

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...parents-belonging-to-different-human-species/

Maybe the guy was into ugly chicks with sloping foreheads and knuckles dragging on the ground. Good for him not to judge true beauty.
Or maybe she, being stronger, just raped the poor guy. Roofied his ass and went to town. Who knows what those prehistoric plant did.

 

[cory]

You covered all the bases there!

 

[cory]

Real long article but well written and readable about why young people are having less sex and the usa birthrate is at record lows.

A lot of it seems to boil down to, surprise surprise, phones, social media, the internet

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'd think AIDS.

 

[cory]

Nope, not mentioned. I believe it said STD rates are very very low.

 

[Tree09]

Very interesting read Cory...

 

[cory]

 

[cory]

A look at the varied diets of hunter/gatherer groups contrasted with that of typical modern society.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/...e=Discovery&pgtype=Homepage#commentsContainer

 

[cory]

No takers above, eh? Surprising.

Anyway I found the following article fascinating as well as radical, all about research indicating use of sun screen is BS and sun exposure is highly healthful

https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science