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I think most of you will enjoy this bumper sticker I sighted today:

1-20-09
The end of an error.


Explanation to furriners:
Jan. 20 will be the inauguration day of our next president.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 032307.php

From Archaeologica news:
Another interesting story with a crummy illustration!

I met a beautiful Indian lady at school who was very dark skinned, but with straight hair. The palms of her hands and the bottoms of her feet were brigh pink.
This pink-palms trait is not universal among Africans.

It's not wise to generalize too much about "Indians." It has already been pointed out that there were a lot of different lifeways and food cultures all over the Americas, even in what is now the US. Another thing to remember, though, is that most Native Americans do not live on reservation...

Looks like this will be an important debate. Also relates directly to your site, Charlie, because the Walker artifacts (?) have been found in a gravel stratum very similar to yours, and the establishment group is claiming that the pieces in question were formed naturally. I see in your case that the...

Be sure someone sober is standing by to call 911 and apply tourniquets.

Hi, Leona! Nice to hear from you, especially that you aren't dead!

Going Blrrrrh as it proceeds I assume?

That's a British spelling!
It only works in a country where you roll your R's

I wrote: That "hole in the earth's surface" seems rather frightening to me. What if they puncture the mantle with their probes and cause it to burst? _________________ I wasn't joking. I'm petrified. Apparently the cooling of the mantle by the ocean is all that is saving us. How thick is t...

That "hole in the earth's surface" seems rather frightening to me.
What if they puncture the mantle with their probes and cause it to burst?

http://www.boston.com/news/world/latina ... _lateness/

HOW TIMELY!
INCREDIBLE!! Modern day Peruvian Gobernment launches
punctuality campaign!!!

A lot of things happened at roughly the same time with the development of agriculture/early cities/ hierarchical goverments and caste systems/ literacy/ civilization, etc. That's why I think this big calendrical device, with all its "subdivisions" is related to the populace and social orga...

I think this structure in Peru is quite astonishing. Look at it as art or as architecture. It is stunningly beautiful. (Something I have never thought about Stonehenge.) Something big was going on there in Peru, that we still don't have much of a handle on. I think this one is interesting because th...

You may be right, John.

Can you show that the near vertical curve since industrialization has pushed the climate beyond the levels in the normal fluctuations?

I have no doubt we are having an effect, but my question is, "how much?"

Thanks.

Best I can make of the chart posted by marduk and then again by digit, it seems that we have been in a warm phase for 10 thousand years. It does seem to be hovering there rather than falling precipitously as it did after other spikes. But it started hovering long before the industrial revolution. (n...