Dispatches From Turtle Island

Shockingly, medieval warhorses weren't as huge and amazing as depicted in TV and movie accounts, although they were still highly valued ...

As expected, matter and antimatter respond to gravity in the same way. They are at least 97% identical in that respect as more clearly expla...

Every now and then I pay attention to the layout of this blog. Many of the links in my blogroll are stale, and I plan on migrating them to a...

Bernard's blog reviews a new paper that combined archaeological and genetic evidence in an effort to put together a more comprehensive ...

There may be two factors at work in explaining the "impossible early galaxy observations" discussed in my previous post at this bl...

The James Webb Space Telescope which was successfully launched on Christmas Day 2021 is optimized for observing the near infrared and mid-in...

  At his blog, Bernard examines a new ancient DNA paper looking at remains from the Central Ukraine, mostly from the Neolithic Cucuteni-Tryp...

A new study shows that mammalian saliva and snake venom have a common genetic source and differ due to relatively modest differences in the...

As we begin a new year, it is helpful to consider what is on our plate, not just in one's personal and professional lives, but in the di...

Honestly, I hate watching podcasts and video recorded lectures, and this one is a little more than an hour long. But, I've had my eye on...

There is genetic evidence of significant back migration from the Middle East to Africa, accounting for 30%-40% of modern sub-Saharan African...

Image via Wikipedia . Davidski discusses the genetic evidence relevant to the origins of the Celtic languages at his Eurogenes blog: A new ...

My birth surname, "Willeke", is a derivative of "Willow Tree" in some early modern dialect of German.  Also, while my an...

The first farmers of Britain had a polygamous, patrilocal society, in which children from previous relationships of wives of clan members an...

The introduction of an otherwise unimpressive new muon g-2 paper provides a nice recap of where the physics world is in terms of experimenta...