Dr Ross Barnett

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We made a playlist of stone age TV commercials for this episode, and we found so many we had to make it a two-parter! Let us know if there are any good cavemen ads we missed and we'll add them to the list for Part Three! (Yes, we covered the Geico Cavemen) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Did you know we posted our regular episode last weekend? I just forgot to share it here! It's about cavemen in advertising, and it's a pretty good one: youtu.be/Z-tq7i-o178 🧪🏺

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Monkey business as mystery marmoset found in Doncaster raid The one-year-old marmoset was an

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The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that's not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night

Happy Friday! 👻

2 photographs of a biography of Marty Feldman. One has googly eyes added but it looks virtually the same.

Every time we see this Marty Feldman book it reminds us of that time we stuck googly eyes on it but all that happened was it looked even more like Marty Feldman. 👀

Country diary: Wildcats are here and they’re on the march | Amanda Thomson Badenoch and Strathspey, Cairngorms: Conservation efforts to help them are working – numbers are still small, but I’ve seen signs in the late winter snow

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To fill a gap in my CV I've said that I was a guitarist for The Fall for a brief period. No-one has disputed this or even asked questions about it. Fesshole GOLD from 27th December 2020

Come to Fesshole Live in 2026! Tickets on sale for Glasgow, Leicester, Luton, Leeds & Cambridge. Sweden Tour visits Malmö, Göteborg and Stockholm, and Anon Opin hits Leicester and Glasgow. Best of Fesshole, audience confessions, secret history & more: https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole

Metazooa Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!

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Meet ‘Tous’ — an entirely new genus of mammal we identified. Here’s why it’s so exciting A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

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a close up of a furry animal with yellow eyes and the words biomorphosis below it Alt: a close up of an aye-aye with yellow eyes sniffing and looking around.

Love the detail about the long-fingered possum. Convergence with Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)?

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

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Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

Or Denisovans? Given complexity of artefacts from Denisova cave e.g. bracelet.

Diets and environments of late pleistocene pygmy and Columbian mammoths: Isotopic evidence from Southern California Pygmy mammoths (Mammuthus exilis) and Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) coexisted on the island of Santarosae (now the Northern Channel Islands of California) until the Late Pleistocene megafauna...

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Telegraph censured for story of fictional family’s struggle to pay school fees Watchdog upholds complaint it breached code with article about impact of VAT on banker who did not exist

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Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80 ka ago? Lithic weapon points occasionally found in Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal sites are large and do not differ in size, shape or type from those used in other activities such as butchering or plant gath...

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Introduction to Palaeogenomics Transmitting Science ONLINE course INTRODUCTION TO PALAEOGENOMICS – CONCEPTS, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF ANCIENT HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN DNA DATA

Join the online course "Introduction to Palaeogenomics" by Transmitting Science, which covers ancient DNA concepts and methods. Register he… https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/genetics-and-genomics/introduction-to-palaeogenomics-concepts-methods-and-applications-of-ancient-dna-data/ #course

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

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Testing shows Myfanwy the mammoth roamed Anglesey 15,000 years ago Myfanwy is one of the oldest mammoths to have re-populated Britain towards the end of the last Ice Age.

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requiem for vanished birdsong

A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

With the reintroduction of beavers and other formally native animals to the UK, I believe that wolves and bears should also be reintroduced, making rambling a much more exciting way to pass the time.

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Metal detectorist stumbles on sinister 'witchcraft' note Lancashire decorator Alex Farrow made the unsettling discovery, thought to be more than a century old.

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Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree

Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.”

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