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[kladner]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...chaeology-spd/
A patriarchal myth bites the dust.

More than a millennium ago in what’s now southeastern Sweden, a wealthy Viking warrior was laid to rest, in a resplendent grave filled with swords, arrowheads, and two sacrificed horses. The site reflected the ideal of Viking male warrior life, or so many archaeologists had thought.

New DNA analyses of the bones, however, confirm a revelatory find: the grave belonged to a woman.

On DNA testing:

The results were clear: The team didn’t detect any Y chromosomes in the bones, and the mitochondrial DNA from the various bones all matched. The remains represented one person—and that person was a woman.

Hedenstierna-Jonson and her colleagues say that the woman was likely a warrior—and a respected tactician, at that. “On her lap she had gaming pieces,” said Hedenstierna-Jonson in a previous interview. “This suggests that she was the one planning the tactics and that she was a leader.”

[rogue]

The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art

The 100 Hardest Video-Game Bosses, Ranked

Indiana’s Very Own: An Indy school full of young Sheldons

Is beaming down in Star Trek a death sentence?

Virtual reality and Van Gogh collide — technology is turning museums into a booming industry

When you split the brain, do you split the person?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALGORITHMS DESIGN A CONCERT HALL? THE STUNNING ELBPHILHARMONIE

Why Teenage Brains Are So Hard to Understand

Growing up with Alexa

Solving a 600-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery

Why Freud Survives

Scents and social preference: Neuroscientists ID the roots of attraction

[GP2]

Maybe this is the right link?

Solving a 600-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery

[rogue]

Two of the links were jumbled because I deleted a ']'.

The Bionic Lens Could Push Eyesight Beyond 20/20 Vision

Solving a 600-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery

[rogue]

Where Should Americans Look for Health Care

Researchers identify brain area responsible for hearing voices in schizophrenia

Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain

Digging for treasure in Aladdin’s source code

For Your Brain’s Sake, Keep Moving

Does acupuncture work by re-mapping the brain?

Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things?

HOW TO BUILD A SELF-CONSCIOUS MACHINE

The human brain contains 'waste pipes,' study reveals

Playing video games may 'enhance learning'

Promoting sleep — brain, muscle or both?

Have Scientists Found a Way to 'Turbocharge' the Human Brain?

Future of news: bracing for next wave of technology

Since Your Brain Constantly Compares You With Everyone Else, Try This

Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found

[LaurV]

The "Aladin" one is brilliant. Thanks for sharing it. I read every word of it. Take it from a guy who spent a lot of time on disassembling code and Sourcer (mainly virus programs) from which I learned heaps and heaps!

[xilman]

First confirmed natural object on a hyperbolic heliocentric orbit discovered.

[rogue]

In Memory Training Smackdown, One Method Dominates

How Trick-or-Treating Became Part of Halloween Tradition

Daydreaming May Be Sign of Intelligence

NASA's X3 ion thruster smashes records in test firings

Scientists And Surgeons Team Up To Create Virtual Human Brain Cells

Saving lives with smart tattoos

How connected stadiums are revolutionizing live fan experiences

The Battle of Brains vs. Brawn

Studies Skewed By Focus On Well-Off, Educated Brains

Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time and Lights Up the Sky

Here’s How Sleeping Too Little Literally Transforms Your Brain

NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event

GOOGLE EARTH FOR BRAINS? SCIENTISTS ZOOM IN WITH X-RAYS TO MAKE 3-D MAPS OF BRAIN SLICES

Brain function does not die immediately after the heart stops finds study

[kladner]

The neutron star collision story is fascinating.

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by kladner

Ars Technica on the research suggesting another distant planet.

I had the opportunity recently to talk to a professional astronomer. It seems that there is a rumble going around that there may 'soon' be an announced confirmation. The vibe I got is that the time scale is (weeks to) months with n<6.

[kladner]

Shout out to LaurV. Were you in on the digital scene when this happened?

What Moldovanu’s holding isn’t some hobbyist kit potentially familiar to tech tinkerers back in the states. In the mid-1980s, Romania was a poverty-stricken, Communist country. So like a handful of his fellow students with a similar undeniable passion for computing, Moldovanu soon became one of only a few dozen underground computer builders in the country. They illegally manufactured computers using parts smuggled from factories and heaps of manually soldered wires. But armed with very few resources and plenty of creativity, people like Moldovanu soon fueled an underground hardware industry that would birth some of the country’s best future tech professionals.