Dispatches From Turtle Island

The wild form of rice has been gathered and eaten in parts of India since the Holocene climate optimum began ca. 7000 BCE, but domesticated...

Mass man made ecological destruction is nothing new. When humans reached Australia, one of the main activities that accompanied this me...

Two economists make an intriguing, but not entirely convincing case that the Crusades of the Middle Ages played a pivotal role in the rise o...

One possible way to integrate gravity and the Standard Model of Particle Physics is called 'asymptotic gravity", in which the grav...

The News The latest top quark mass data: The combined ATLAS result from the √ s = 7 TeV dileptonic and semileptonic tt¯ measurements yi...

The four-loop determination of the strong coupling from fully inclusive observables is reviewed. Special attention is given to the low-ene...

Eurogenes mentions a paper using ancient disease DNA to track the arrival of the plague in late Neolithic and early Bronze Age Europe, arou...

The tradition of making mound graves established in the Neolithic era and declining as first wave farming in Europe collapsed, discussed in ...

Pillbug. Roly-poly. Woodlouse. Doodle bug. This endearing creature, which goes by many names, is common throughout North America and Europ...

Non-detection of proton decay and other forms of baryon number and lepton number violations such as neutrinoless double beta decay and flavo...

Back in 2012, I noted strong new evidence for a lost advanced civilization in the Amazon jungle  (by advanced, I mean Neolithic, not futuri...

While searching for the legal definition of " gentry " in English law, membership in which was a prerequisite to serving as a Just...