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An amazing piece of ancient artistry washed up on a beach!
Imagine beachcombing and finding this small amber animal carved some 13,000 years ago! 🤩
Found on the beach at Næsby Strand in Denmark. National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me
#Archaeology
ALT My photo shows an ancient amber animal figurine, thought to represent an elk, displayed against a black background. Carved from translucent reddish-orange amber, the figure, which measures 7 cm x 4.7 cm. Seen in profile with head to right, it has a higher hind section, with a slightly lower yet elevated shoulder area. Its neck curves forwards with a downward facing head with a short muzzle. The forelegs and hind legs are carved as a single unit, with no separation between them. The lower ends of the leg join a carved frame whose lower edge runs parallel to the animal’s belly line. Delicate zigzag patterns cover its back and sides. The geometric decoration dates the figurine to the Late Paleolithic - early Mesolithic period. Two small metal display supports hold the figurine upright, with its reflection visible on the dark surface beneath. I photographed the figurine at Halle Landesmuseum, Germany, on loan for the Shamaness of Bad Dürrenberg exhibition.
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Someone smart once told me that even when it feels like you have few options and little agency, you can always decide how you show up to a situation…model the behavior you wish you’d see more of.
I always find that to be an extraordinarily comforting and empowering thought
Non trivially the ais will want to keep us around simply because our ineptitude will continue to generate novel and interesting problems for them solve
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BREAKING: A top GOP official in Texas says, "It looks like we f*cked ourselves with gerrymandering. We watered down all the red districts to steal as many blue ones as possible, and now because voters turned against us we'll lose many more seats than if we hadn't tried to cheat."
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Today I learned the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency almost suspended Benjamin Noval for 18 months, when he was 15 years old, for associations with banned coach Pepe Martí.
The case was eventually declared "expired".
elpais.com/deportes/ciclismo…
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And by the way I would please like attention levels like this on my latest interview x
Exc: Darren Jones on the "coup", the secret deals that got Andy Burnham into Number 10, and what Labour needs to do now.
Interview with Starmer's former right-hand man in this week's New Statesman: our Labour conference special
newstatesman.com/politics/po…
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I DO NOT NEED TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION TO PAY MY ELECTRICITY BILL. LET ANYONE IN THAT MOTHERFUCKER IF THEY WANT TO PAY IT
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One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.
Oh no... please don't take this small wet province that costs 10bn a year more to run than it raises in taxes and where a third of it's population are employed in the public sector...
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Karahantepe’de 11 bin yıllık benzersiz bir heykeli gün yüzüne çıkarttık!
Geleceğe Miras Projemiz kapsamında yürüttüğümüz 2026 yılı kazılarında, daha önce benzerine rastlanmayan bir üsluba sahip kompozit heykel bulduk.
Yaklaşık 11 bin yıl önce bırakıldığı yerden günümüze ulaşan 70 santimetre yüksekliğindeki heykel, leoparın sırtında oturan bir insanı betimliyor.
Bu özel eser; 3 metre çapında, zemini yassı taşlarla kaplanmış bir yapının duvarı boyunca uzanan sekinin üzerinde bulundu. İnsanlık tarihinin en erken dönemlerine ilişkin yeni soruların kapısını aralayan keşfin bilim dünyasında geniş yankı uyandıracağına inanıyorum.
Kültür Varlıkları ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlüğümüze, kazı heyetimize, bilim insanlarımıza ve sahada özveriyle çalışan tüm ekip arkadaşlarımıza teşekkür ediyorum.
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Good Morning from Germany, where the entire Dax – the 40 largest listed companies – is barely bigger than SpaceX, now valued at $2.1tn. One rocket company versus corporate Germany.
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Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums.
Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space.
It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?
This is right the bloom numbers are perfectly reasonable and people claiming they aren't are trying to pull the wool over your eyes.
Forget the USA --- absent Brexit I do think that the UK's GDP/capita would have grown at somewhere between the French rate and the EU rate. Which is what the good models show too. I do not think that we should rejoin. ourworldindata.org/grapher/g…
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"Private renters would have had an extra 2.2 million rental properties to choose from if the market had grown at pre-2016 rates": LandlordZone.
Pretty devastating?
But it precipitated a rebound in home ownership; people paying their own mortgage rather than their landlords..
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Me: buys a house in 2020
Fed: prints $8 trillion more dollars
Also me: “I’m a real estate genius”
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NEW: The closure of youth clubs in the 2010s led to increased offending and worse GSCE results.
Teenagers entitled to free school meals were most affected.
Read @carmenvillaecon’s briefing: ifs.org.uk/articles/how-cuts…
Read the working paper: ifs.org.uk/publications/effe…
Anti social cycling is a problem. However i am not sure what Dave hill thinks you can do about this OTHER than to encourage more social cycling through better cycling infrastructure
